Training ... Anthony Mundine spars with Shannon King. Source: Glenn Barnes / News Limited
ANTHONY Mundine hits Brisbane this week to start intense preparations for his fight with faded American great Shane Mosley next month.
Brisbane has been a happy hunting ground for the former world champion who scored two of his biggest wins – over Daniel Geale and Garth Wood – at the Entertainment Centre at Boondall.
Mundine is likely to spend four weeks in the Sunshine State sparring with Brisbane's 2012 Olympian Cameron Hammond, whose loose-limbed, sharp shooter style closely mimics that of Mosley, the 42-year-old former world welterweight and light-middleweight champion.
Mosley is not as fast as he was when twice beating Oscar De La Hoya more than a decade ago and on October 23 at Sydney's Entertainment Centre, Mundine hopes to make him the biggest name on a resume that currently reads 44 wins in 49 fights.
Mundine and his mate, Olympic athletics silver medallist John Steffensen, will be in Brisbane on Saturday for the launch of the Brisbane Sports Performance Centre at Kangaroo Point.
Steffensen was a star amateur boxer in his youth and he and Mundine will run a boxing workshop at the facility from 10am.
Mundine will also be in the crowd when the venue hosts its first boxing event on Saturday night with Australian middleweight champ Nathan Carroll expected to manhandle Thailand's Decapon Sunwannalird on a card that also includes Queensland cruiserweight champion Balazs Varga and rising welterweight Ozan Craddock.
Carroll is using the fight as a warm-up for his November 7 middleweight title defence against Irishman Dennis Hogan at Eatons Hill on a card to be televised by Fox Sports.
While in Queensland, Mundine is expected to train at the gym of his former victim, Seoul Olympian Darren Obah, at Kunda Park on the Sunshine Coast.
His deal to spar with Cameron Hammond was negotiated by Hammond's manager Matt Clark.
"I told Anthony that there is no one in Australia who so closely resembles Shane Mosley's style as Cameron,'' Clark said.
"He has fast hands, fast feet and is very elusive. Having boxed at the London Olympics and the Delhi Commonwealth Games Cameron has experience against the fastest and most skilled amateur fighters in the world.
"It will be great experience for Cameron to go in against a fighter of Mundine's experience and skill and it should be a great experience for Anthony to box a really quick guy with that Mosley style.''
Mundine was in Hammond's hometown, Moree, a week ago to cheer on the local rugby league team, the Boomerangs, to victory in their Group 19 grand final.
Mundine's arrival caps a big week for Queensland boxing.
On Friday night at Brisbane's Irish Club, Dennis Hogan faces fellow Irishman Gavin Prunty and Frenchman Faris Chevalier faces local super-middleweight Shane Parry.
On the same night at Southport Sharks AFL Club, world-rated middleweight Les Sherrington should hit too hard for Japan's Shigetaka Yonezawa.
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