Green working hard to make Hopkins fight
January 3rd, 2010
By Jason Kim: International Boxing Organization cruiserweight champion Danny Green (28-3, 25 KO’s) reportedly agreed to take a smaller purse to make a fight with 44-year-old Bernard Hopkins (50-5-1, 32 KO’s), according to Fight News. Green, 36, says that he originally had an agreement from Hopkins for a 50-50 split of the purse. However, Hopkins later on asked for more, requesting a 60-40 split.
Its unknown what the exact percentage that Green is willing to take to fight Hopkins. Green says he’s less concerned with the money, and more so with trying to establish his legacy. Green destroyed Roy Jones Jr. in a 1st round knockout on December 2nd, ruining Jones’ big money fight against Hopkins which was supposed to take place in March 2010.
Green jumped all over Jones at the start of the bell, and quickly dropped him with a right to the head. After Jones got up, Green pounded him without stop until referee Howard John Foster stepped in and stopped the bout at 2:02 of the 1st. Jones said later that he had recovered from the knockdown and felt that the fight should have been allowed to continue.
However, Jones wasn’t offering up any resistance at the time of the stoppage and had taken unceasing punishment for 30 seconds without throwing anything back at Green. Hopkins, 44, who will be turning 45 on January 15th, recently defeated an over-matched middleweight contender Enrique Ornelas by a 12 round decision on December 2nd.
It wasn’t Hopkins at his best, as he looked slower than he had been in his last fight, a one-sided 12 round decision win over Kelly Pavlik in October 2008. Like Shane Mosley, Hopkins lost a year of his career wasting time trying to find a big-named opponent to fight. Instead of getting a popular opponent for a big money fight, Hopkins had to settle for a bout against Ornelas.
Green presents a problem for Hopkins because of his size, power and pressure style of attack. Green is a lot bigger than Pavlik, and has the power and the kind of smothering attack that can give Hopkins problems.
HBO is interested in televising the Green-Hopkins fight, which is one more reason for the two fighters to try and make this fight happen.
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perko i do like mundine as a boxer but iam sick of him only fighting on his terms. the only time he has fight any one good and it has not been on his terms he has been beaten. i do feel sorry for his fans who love him. because i think that he could be good. but he does not fight for his fans and that is sad. i do feel sorry for all his fans.because i use to be one. but i like boxers with heart.
to boxb relize that all boxers other then the heavys starve to make weight , what do ya think chocs walks around at 168 lbs in the street and doesnt have to train , diet , sauna and starve down . his footy playing weight was 185 lbs , thats his natural weight or are you stupid . stop making excuses for badly beaten fighters after they lose just learn and analysise why they lost , making weight was part of the reason why green lost but mostly the reason is ” he was way too slow against a boxer who uses side to side movement and boxes from the outside” . learn mate theres easy money to be made betting if you do ya homework , christ i wish mundine was fighting green every weekend , never have to work again.
@michael LOL that was funny
to perko relise it takes alot out of you when you starve your self to make wieght are you stupid. would you ever see mundine starve himself to fight. No becuase he has no heart.
to boxb greeny could never beat choc at any weight – simple mate its style against style , tell us what would be any different from the first fight, its not like greenys found the fountain of youth and has found defence , footwork ,side to side movement, balance and speed all of a sudden . we all know greenys never been the same after the meltdown fight with sullivan – that pre sullivan green fought at a suicide pace and would have given choc fits with frazier like pressure. what do ya think hes going the easy route in jones , hopkins , holyfield instead of lureing mundine out , fighting paul briggs , dawson and ademek. just chasing money now and theres nothing wrong with that but all i’m saying is , to shut up mundines mouth he needs to beat him in a rematch.
well said olly i agree. To perko i always said mundine would win at that wieght you would be stupid not to relise that but at this wieght green is at mundine would have no hope.
Who the hell is Danny Green? I guess he is a big time star in Australia for whatever that is worth. Why would Bernard Hopkins share a purse equally with some no name. This is a charade if you ask me.
For God;s sake, 40% of a lot is better than 100% of nothing. Let’s get it on.
green hopkins no
hey boxb , sick of mondays experts making excuses for green , at the time you told everyone that green was a cert against mundine – never mentioned anything about the weight until after he got a hiding. fact is he lost badly in front of australia after he’d promised a ko of choc. mundine might be fighting nevilles but at the end of his career will always be able to shut up his detractors by saying ” i flogged danny green in a easy spar”. only fight that counts green – mundine 2.
Green will pulversise Hopkins. Sheer power, strength and workrate will be too much.
should go ahead, should be a good one.
Hopkins proved he is still relevant despite his age when he beat Pavlik.
lets hope hopkins the racist gets beaten by another white boy.After not going through with the adamek maybe he is scared of whitey.
to perko wake up relise that was not greens weight when he fought mundine green he had to starve himself for weeks to make the wieght.now at this wieght he is very strong and will be hard to beat for any boxer at this weight.
world wide no one cares about green – hopkins , in ozzieland only green fight we wanta see is the rematch to see if green did have an off night against choc mundine – jesus he lost a lot of support from the aussie public saying he was gunna shut choc up for good than got a public flogging in front of 4 million viewers – was like ali-ellis all over again as choc schooled and taunted his lesser skilled foe over the 12 rounds.
hopkins and roy jones should be room mates in the old fokes home