Danny Green (boxer)

Danny Green
Data
Birth Name	Daniel Thomas Green
Weight class	Light heavyweight
nationality	Australian
birthday	March 9, 1973
place of birth	Perth
style	Left delivery
size	1.85 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	41
Victories	36
Knockout victories	28
Defeats	5
draw	0

Danny Green (born March 9, 1973 in Perth , Australia ) is an Australian professional boxer .

Amateur career

Before Green started boxing at the age of 18, he played kickboxing and other martial arts. After his first successes as an amateur, Green was accepted into the Australian Institute of Sport . In 1997 he won the Arafura Games as a middleweight . He boxed at the Commonwealth Games in 1998 and two years later at the Olympic Games in his own country. There Danny Green reached the second round in the light heavyweight division, where he had to admit defeat to the eventual Olympic champion Alexander Lebsjak . In the same year he won the Oceanic Championships in Canberra.

Professional career

On June 29, 2001 Danny Green played his first professional fight against Waqa Kolivuso. He should all win this fight and the following 15 early.

On August 16, 2003, Green got the chance for the WBC title. At the Nürburgring he met Markus Beyer . Green sent the Germans to the ground in the first two rounds. In the second round, however, an intentional headbutt by the Australian was criticized. Since Beyer found himself unable to continue boxing with the resulting wound in the fifth round, the fight was broken off and Green was disqualified according to the WBC rules. Beyer thus remained world champion. Only four months later it came to the fight for the interim title of Beyer's WBC World Championship, as the German had to pause for a long time due to the injury from the fight against Green. Danny Green defeated former world champion Éric Lucas in Montreal and after two more victorious fights there was a rematch with Markus Beyer in Zwickau. Although he was able to send the defending champion back down, the challenger lost just on points.

After this renewed defeat, Green separated from his coach Jeff Fenech . There followed two development fights until he met his compatriot Anthony Mundine in a WBA elimination match in May 2006 . However, Green left the ring after 2-1 judges votes for Mundine as a loser.

Then Green rose to the light heavyweight division and won the Pacific-Asian championship in this class. On December 16, 2007, he finally boxed against the Croatian Stipe Drviš for the WBA World Championship and won the title over twelve rounds clearly on points. Green should then defend his title in April 2008 against the Argentine mandatory challenger Hugo Garay , but he surprisingly announced his retirement from active boxing in March 2008.

A comeback followed in 2009. After a build-up fight, there was a fight with Roy Jones junior on December 2nd , which Green surprisingly won through TKO in the first round. As the fight progressed, Green hit Jones in the temple with a hard right hand. Jones got up again, but didn't recover from the hit. After a flurry of greens, the referee stopped the fight. In 2010 he defeated Manny Siaca , Paul Briggs and BJ Flores.

In 2011 he suffered defeats to Antonio Tarver and Krzysztof Włodarczyk , but was able to defeat Danny Santiago and Shane Cameron in 2012.

After almost three years of abstinence from the ring, he only made a comeback in August 2015 against Roberto Feliciano Bolonti, whom he defeated on points. In February 2017 he won by majority decision against Anthony Mundine .

Performances outside of sports

In 2018, he participated in the fourth season of the Australian television show I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! part.

Web links

• official homepage
• Danny Green in the BoxRec database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Danny Green gives his take on I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here! Competition , February 3, 2018, www.news.com.au

predecessor	Office	successor
Stipe Drviš	Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion ( WBA ) December 16, 2007 - March 25, 2008	Hugo Hernán Garay