By Sean McDaniel: The proposed bout between International Boxing Organization cruiserweight champion Danny Green (28-3, 25 KO’s) and Bernard Hopkins (50-5-1, 32 KO’s) is in jeopardy of not happening due to money issues between the two fighters, according to Boxing Talk. Gary Shaw, the adviser to Green, said to Boxing Talk “Bernard Hopkins said that he wants a 60-40 deal to fight Danny Green. At any rate, I spoke to Danny Green last night. Danny Green absolutely will not give Hopkins a 60-40 deal. When we were at Richard Schaefer’s office over a week ago, we offered up a 50-50 deal and we’ve been waiting to hear the results for a while now.”

Hopefully, a deal can be made to try and salvage this fight. Green, 36, recently stopped Roy Jones Jr. in the 1st round on December 2nd in an impressive knockout victory Hopkins, 44, defeated middleweight contender Enrique Ornelas on the same night in a 12 round decision. The plan was for Hopkins to fight Jones next, but Green’s victory took away any chance of a Jones-Hopkins rematch to take place. The most natural fight for Hopkins at that point was to fight Green, and beat him.

However, Green, a champion, doesn’t want to take a smaller cut so this fight is now in jeopardy of not happening. Hopkins has few appealing options other than a fight with Green. Hopkins could opt to fight light heavyweight Chad Dawson, but that would be a very tough fight for Hopkins at this point in his career. The 6’3″ Dawson would have the speed and size advantage over the 6’1″ Hopkins and it would be asking a lot of Bernard to try and beat a young fighter like that.

Green isn’t much easier, though. He hits hard and puts his punches together in an attacking style of fighting. Hopkins is more of a one punch at a time type fighter at this point in his career. He would have to find a way to slow Green down by clinching a lot if he were to have a hope of beating the Australian slugger. He couldn’t stand and trade with him, because that would be playing into Green’s strength.

In Green’s last fight with Jones, Green stalked Roy around the ring jabbing him hard in the midsection. As soon as Jones backed up to a corner, Green nailed him with a hard right hand that came looping to the side of Jones’ head, knocking him down. After Jones got to his feet, Green landed an avalanche of punches while Jones tried to cover up. Seeing that Jones wasn’t about to throw anything back, the referee stepped in and stopped the bout before Jones could get seriously hurt.