By Mark Vester
WBA "regular" middleweight champion Anthony Mundine, 32, is now legally blind in his left eye, but refuses to give up his boxing career and vows to fight on.
“I don’t need two eyes to beat them,” Mundine said to the AFP. “I’ll fight with one eye.”
He feels that WBA super/WBC super middleweight champ Mikkel Kessler on Nov. 3 and still plans to challenge him in a 2008 rematch.
“I’m the only guy that’s got the tools to beat Kessler, and he knows it, and hopefully I can get the fight in next year, with God’s will,” Mundine said. “All I need is for my eye to be about 60 percent. If I can see a silhouette under them lights in my left eye, I feel that I can still become what I have always desired.”
Mundine suffered the eye injury after causing a major infection by using his tongue to clean a contact lens. The following day his eye was badly swollen and causing him pain, resulting in a surgery to remove a growth behind the eye, which is still being treated with steroids and antibiotics.
“My vision is not great – maybe 40-50 percent – which is pretty much legally blind at the moment,” Mundine said. “It’s not sore but there’s still a bit of cloudiness in the eye.” Mundine.
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