Anthony Mundine's instructions from his famous father Tony are to feel Sean Sullivan out during the early rounds of their Saturday night fight before he tries to take the Kiwi apart.

Mundine senior has a lot of respect for Sullivan, given the time the 34-year-old South Aucklander has been around and because of his impressive performances against Australian boxers.

But he firmly believes his son will prevail in the 12-round Pan Asian Boxing Association super middleweight title fight at Auckland's ASB Stadium on Saturday.

"Sean Sullivan will be crafty, he'll be tough, but Anthony has that great left hand and we'll see how much Sean likes that in his face," Tony said.

The father and son flew into Auckland and went straight to a New Zealand Warriors rugby league training session at Cornwall Park, Anthony declaring the team were right up with his beloved St George in his thoughts.

"I wanted you guys to win, bad," he told coach Daniel Anderson, in a reference to their grand final appearance last year.

He spoke to Stacey Jones, Monty Betham and other Warriors and said later that he'd wanted to catch up with players he'd met on the field "who had always been gentlemen".

He'll run with the squad in a training session open to the public at Ericsson Stadium on Thursday morning.

Mundine junior said he wouldn't mind if Saturday's fight went to late rounds. He was in condition mentally and physically and looking forward to learning from Sullivan's experience in the ring.

"As long as I do it (win) convincingly. I want to be in control of the fight.

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