Mundine's audacious call ahead of boxing return

Anthony Mundine wants one more year in boxing and a crack at WBO welterweight champion and compatriot Jeff Horn before calling it quits.

Speaking ahead of his clash with Tommy Browne in Sydney for the vacant WBO middleweight title on Wednesday, the 42-year-old says he is in the best shape in more than a decade.

"I would like to have three fights this year that would probably be it, but if I keep winning and they keep offering me these big money fights, I'll have to sit down and think 'is it enough'?' Mundine said on Tuesday.

Mundine has only fought once professionally in the last two years, but insists he'll be too good for Browne.

One year since his last fight - a loss to fellow Aussie veteran Danny Green - Mundine says he's at his peak after finally ridding himself of a lingering hip injury.

"Now that I’m injury free, people are going to get a shock," he said.

"I want to stay until someone beats me."

Many thought Mundine would retire after his loss to Greene, and even The Man himself admits he thought he was done.

"I thought the Green fight was probably going to be my last, but that's why I want to give this one more year of fighting because I feel that good," he said.

"I don't want to look back in 10 years time and say f**k, why didn't I fight on when I had a healthy hip.

"I was impaired for the better part of 10 years. People don't understand how impaired I was and how limited I was with my movement in my left hip.

"But now it's pretty much got its full range back and it's amazing."

Having not tasted victory since November 14, Mundine is adamant he's on a different level to Browne.

"He's going to come with a lot of passion, throwing a lot of punches, but once my skills start to come into play then I'll start to work him out and put it on him," he said.

"Emotion and fitness ain't gonna win the fight.

"Skills are going to win the fight, and I got the skills to pay the bills."

with agencies