Tarver vs. Green: Antonio won’t be running from Danny on 7/20

By Dan Ambrose: IBO cruiserweight champion Danny Green (31-3, 27 KO’s) will be making his 5th defense of his International Boxing Organization title on July 20th against 42-year-old former IBF/WBA/WBC light heavyweight champion Antonio Tarver (28-6, 19 KO’s) at the Entertainment Centre, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

The 38-year-old Green is getting Tarver at the right moment, because Tarver has lost two out of his last three fights and hasn’t exactly been all that active lately. Tarver doesn’t move like he used and won’t be able to run to stay out of the way of Green’s big punches. Age has grounded Tarver and made him more prone to have to stand and fight. This is could be a good or a bad thing for Green depending on how much Tarver has left.

A prime Tarver likely beats Green with no problems and maybe even knocks him out. But an older Tarver may be depleted enough for Green to win this fight. It’s hard to say because Green has such a weak career resume. He’s somehow avoided facing the best cruiserweights and some of the wins he had at super middleweight earlier in his career are a bit dated and probably nowhere near as good as the super middleweights in the division now.

The best names on Green’s resume are BJ Flores, who Green barely beat recently, Eric Lucas, Markus Beyer, an old Roy Jones Jr., Stipe Drews, an old Paul Briggs and Anthony Mundine. I don’t know about you but that’s a weak resume. You can’t look at that resume, which has most of Greens’ biggest wins earlier in his career, and assume that he can beat Tarver. The fight will be taking place in Australia where Green is hard to beat by a decision, but I can see Tarver making Green look bad and beating him. Green is a badly flawed fighter and wins and dies by the knockout. If Tarver can block his shots and fire back with some of his own he could end up beating him bad enough to win a decision.

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