'One last victory': Anthony Mundine's bombshell retirement backflip

Anthony Mundine appears to have shelved his boxing retirement plans again after insisting that he wants "to go out a winner" from the sport.

Mundine first appeared as though he was retiring at the end of 2018 after suffering a chastening 96-second KO against former Aussie world champion, Jeff Horn.

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'The Man' then made a surprise return to the sport last year, losing to John Wayne Parr in a split decision.

He vowed to "sail into the sunset" after that loss but seems to have changed his mind again.

The 44-year-old is determined to to go out of the sport on a high and has been enticed to do so by Michael Zerafa - the man who famously knocked Horn out in the first fight between the pair in 2019, before losing in the rematch.

Mundine says Zerafa's team wants the fight to happen with the former rugby league star and that both camps are working towards a suitable date.

“They want me to fight that Zerafa, so I’ll keep working. They’re keen,” Mundine told the Canberra Times.

“I’ve been thinking about it and I’ve got the drive to go and do it, you know what I mean? My main goal is to go out a winner, I want to go out a winner and get one last victory, it would be great.

“I’m training just once a day, just ticking over until we have a date. Then I can schedule training around that.”

Zerafa is sixteen years Mundine's junior and has a 27-4-0 record, having gone down controversially to Horn in their rematch after insisting the referee should have stopped the fight in the ninth round.

Mundine's record has fallen to 48-10-0, having lost six of his past 10 fights.

Mundine’s anti-vax stance

Mundine is never a stranger to controversy and sparked outrage earlier in the year when he tried to claim the COVID-19 pandemic wasn't real.

The opinionated 44-year-old is a staunch anti-vaxxer and insisted that the coronavirus crisis was an elaborate ploy to force people to vaccinate.

In April last year Mundine was slammed on social media after taking an anti-vaccination stance imploring parents not to vaccinate their children.

Mundine took to social media to warn parents to “do your research” before vaccinating their children.

“Don’t vaccine your kids period! The government bully you into vaccine! Do your research on the s*** & watched the documentary vaxxed,” he wrote on Twitter.

Mundine’s comments were immediately labelled “dangerous”, with some calling for him to delete the post.

Paralympic champion Kurt Fearnley accused Mundine of promoting apathy over diseases that should be feared.

“You got many mates with Polio? I do. A heap. From countries that didn’t have the luxury of vaccinations you peanut,” Fearnley wrote.

He said it was “bad faith” for anti-vaxxers to say do your research when medical professionals had already done so.

“So do your research.. Consult your GP. Not Dr Google.”

with agencies