Danny Green taking pride in his performance against Wlodarczyk

By Boxing News - 12/02/2011 - Comments

Image: Danny Green taking pride in his performance against WlodarczykBy Dan Ambrose: 38-year-old Danny Green (31-5, 27 KO’s) still isn’t sure whether he will retire or not from boxing after being stopped in the 11th round by WBC cruiserweight champion Krzysztof Wlodarczyk last Wednesday.

Green outworked the cool and composed Wlodarczyk through most of the fight and had a lead on the scorecards going into the 11th round. However, Green had been tiring since the 9th round and by the 11th, he was red in the face, breathing hard and getting stung by the jabs thrown by Wlodarczyk.

Green finally got staggered by a big right hand from Wlodarczyk and then dropped with a left hook moments later. Green’s nose was busted during the fight and had jaw pain after the fight, although tests taken on the jab were negative afterwards showing no breakage.

Green told Australian World News “With that last punch, not many men would have been able to regain consciousness within a minute let alone stand up within 10 seconds. I’m proud of the fact I was still fighting with every ounce of whatever was left in my body to try to win that title. Green was ahead on the scorecards by the scores of 97-93, 97-93 and 96-93.

However, the reasons why Green was ahead at the time was mostly because Wlodarczyk, an always conservative fighter, did little more than jab throughout the fight and occasionally throwing wild punches that mostly missed. But he was conserving his energy by not throwing power shots, while Green was exhausting himself trying hard to hurt and take Wlodarczyk out like he had previously done against the B level opposition he had been feasting on since making his comeback in 2009. All Wlodarczyk had to do by the 11th was hit Green with a few shots and he had him hurt, because he was exhausted.

I think Green can beat some of the top fighters but I think he’ll have problems against the better ones like Marco Huck, Yoan Pablo Hernandez, and Guillermo Jones. In other words, all the current cruiserweight champions would likely beat Green. But he really doesn’t need to hold a championship belt in order for him to make money in Australia.

He can pick up one of the obscure belts like the one he held recently and defend the belt against 2nd and 3rd tier opposition like he’s been frequently doing in the past two years and the Australians will gladly flock to see him fight. It doesn’t matter that he’s not a champion and probably doesn’t have enough left to be a champion. He’ll still have boxing fans paying to see him wipe the deck with 2nd tier fighters.



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