Sugar set to again snub Mundine

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SUGAR Shane Mosley is long odds to return Down Under and face Anthony Mundine — with the Future Hall of Famer linked to a Las Vegas Showtime spot within hours of touching back down in the United States.

The Daily Telegraph can reveal Golden Boy Promotions, who manage the ageing American star, have told Australian sources Mosley will not be back before Christmas, regardless of a potential $1 million purse offer from Team Mundine.

The decision would be a huge blow for the outspoken Sydney boxer who, desperate for one more crack at the US market, is pushing to promote his own fight with Mosley in Brisbane on December 4, with an undercard including Wallaby Quade Cooper and NSW Origin reject Blake Ferguson.

Yet after arriving back in Los Angeles early yesterday, Mosley was immediately being talked up for a fight with Golden Boy stablemate Victor Ortiz, whose own December 14 fight fell over early Tuesday — around the same time Mosley jetted out of Sydney.

A spokesperson for Team Mosley said his charge was "definitely interested" in the Ortiz offer if financial terms could be worked out.

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It means Team Mundine, once again being overseen by Khoder Nasser, will need to broker an offer upwards of $1.5 million to sway the runaway American back to Australia.

Such a figure would require the fight selling 80,000 Pay-Per-Views and at least 6000 seats. However, The Daily Telegraph has been told, as of Tuesday morning, the same Sydney fight had only sold 1500 tickets and 1000 buys with broadcaster Main Event.

Which is why, increasingly, Mosley looks set to remain Stateside — with an Ortiz bout the early favourite.

Sidelined for 18 months with a broken jaw, the American southpaw was scheduled to make his long-awaited comeback against Carlos Molina, the IBF junior middleweight champ. However the notoriously strict IBF officials refused to sanction the fight, citing the time Ortiz had spent out of the ring coupled with the fact he has been stopped in his past two fights.

Which leaves a gaping hole on a card desperate for star power.

Enter Mosley, for whom the bout makes more sense than a Mundine fight, if not as many dollars.

Slated as the co-feature to a world title bout between welterweights Adrien Broner and Marcos Maidana, the event not only thrusts the 42-year-old back onto Showtime, but into a contest where success puts him within reach of superstar opponents.

Only last month Mosley told New Ltd how he initially rejected a $200,000 for the Ortiz fight, eventually accepting five times that amount to face Mundine at the Sydney Entertainment Centre.

Elsewhere, rumours continue to circulate about why Mosley fled the country just over 24 hours before his bout with Mundine. After touching down in Los Angeles yesterday, Mosley bizarrely suggested he feared Australian boxing great Jeff Fenech, who threw $500,000 behind the bout, may have attempted to sway the judges.

It follows claims by promoter Vlad Warton that Mosley possibly suffered a "nervous breakdown". Despite claims he wasn't paid as per the contract, Warton insists he had the $700,000 available — guaranteed by host broadcaster Main Event — which was set aside in a bank account, to be accessed after the bout had taken place.

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