Shane Mosley says Anthony Mundine is not to blame for last month's botched bout, but the American boxing great still intends to knock him out.
The 42-year-old arrived in Sydney on Thursday to fight Mundine on November 27, barely three weeks after he walked out on the original event over $700,000 worth of unpaid fees.
But Mosley has declared he is going nowhere this time, guaranteeing the rescheduled bout will go ahead after Mundine and his manager Khoder Nasser last week deposited more than $1 million into a holding account and agreed to promote the fight themselves.
"It's definitely happening. The money's in there so we're ready to go," he said..
"(They've) put the full million dollars into the escrow account and that means I'm going to be here to fight. I'm not walking away.
"I could've found any excuse in the world not to come back and fight. But you see, I've landed, I'm here and I'm ready to fight. I ain't going nowhere.
"I can guarantee you the fight is going ahead."
Mosley - who was greeted by Nasser at Sydney Airport - insisted he never wanted to abandon the fight in the first place, but was told to by his management because of then-promoter Vlad Warton's failure to pay all monies upfront as contracted.
"If he did what he was supposed to do, it would've been my fault - it would've been on me," he said.
"They shouldn't blame Anthony Mundine.
"I like him as a person, but in the boxing ring we're enemies.
"So I'm going to knock him out anyway."
The former three-time world champion believes Mundine has underestimated his ability - highlighted, he said, by the fact his Australian opponent has gone to the extreme of starving himself and training at midnight in order to make weight.
"I don't need to (do that)," Mosley said.
"The boxing game is in your mind, what you believe and what you feel ... and this is why I'm going to beat him.
"The boxing game is not for your speed, power or athleticism - it's what you know (in your mind) and what you've got (in your heart).
"I've got both of them baby, I'm ready to go."
The Californian irked many Australian boxing fans when he labelled the local scene "behind the times" and "almost like the mafia days" upon his return to the US last month.
While not backing away from the comments on Thursday, Mosley said he was only repeating what he had heard.
"I said that I believed the way the set-up was with the fighting, with the judging, it seemed kind of strange here," he said.
"But this is what they're telling me, I'm just regurgitating what's been said to me."
Asked if he was worried about problems with the judging for the new fight, Mosley said: "No. I'm not really looking to going to the scorecard, so it doesn't really matter about the judges I guess."
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