By Mark Vester
Former super middleweight champion Anthony Mundine told the Sydney Morning Herald that he is planning a return to rugby league when he finishes his boxing career. Mundine faces fellow Australian Sam Soliman for the vacant WBA super-middleweight title on March 7 at the Entertainment Centre in Australia.
Mundine quit rugby in 2000 in order to focus on his boxing career, but said that there is unfinished business that he needs to take care of in rugby.
Mundines plans to fight for two more years, and will then retire to play rugby.He said that he will either play for the Dragons or South Sydney.
"Definitely, I have a two-year plan," Mundine said. "I want to fight the best of the best and get as far as I can. All going well that's something I want to do, come back [to rugby league] and get that elusive premiership that I had in the grasp of my hands twice."
"Right now I'm trying to be the best boxer I can be. I want to be one of the best boxers in the world pound for pound. No doubt football is my bread and butter, I've been playing it since I was four years old, I've been playing it for 20 years," he said.
"I was one of the premier five-eighths in the world, I've played Origin. All I need is a good off-season and some games under my belt."
