Danny Green hopes defeating one of the men that beat “the man” will smoke his arch rival Anthony Mundine out of his rabbit hole and into a rematch.

IBO cruiserweight boxing world champion Green, announced an April 14 title defence against Puerto Rican Manny Siaca at the Sydney Entertainment Centre.

It is the same venue at which Siaca took away Mundine’s WBA super middleweight world title in May 2004.

With top draw American fighters Bernard Hopkins and Antonio Tarver knocking back “exceptional massive offers” to fight Green, he made no apologies for stoking the flames of his old rivalry with Mundine.

Green said he had agreed to all of Hopkins’ and Tarver’s demands and was prepared to fight in the United States for free, provided he got the Australian television rights.

“If we can’t get the massive overseas names, we will take care of the biggest domestic issue we have,” Green said referring to Mundine.

He confirmed Mundine had knocked back last week’s offer of a rematch which would have resulted in ten per cent of the multi-million dollar purse going to a charity fund assisting young Indigenous Australians.

At previous press conferences to announce future fights, the normally affable Green has frequently bristled at the mere mention of Mundine’s name.

However, on Tuesday, it took Green just 62 seconds of his introductory address to get around to voluntarily mentioning Mundine after some brief comments about Siaca, Hopkins and Tarver.

“Manny Siaca dropped Anthony Mundine and took his title away and pretty much embarrassed the bloke,” Green told reporters.

“Our approach to Anthony Mundine is to try and smoke that rabbit out of his hole.”

While spruiking a rematch with Mundine, Green stressed it was his old foe who had started the calling out process following Green’s win over Roy Jones Jr last December.

Siaca, 34, lost the WBA world title in his first defence to Denmark’s Mikkel Kessler, who subsequently retained his title with a unanimous points win over Mundine in Sydney.

Five of Siaca’s six losses were in world title fights, but he turned the tables when he beat Mundine in their showdown in Sydney.

The world-travelled Siaca, who has fought in eight different countries, also challenged unsuccessfully for a light heavyweight world title and is well regarded by Green despite having fought just twice in three-and-a-half years.

“He’s got a massive reach advantage and he’s probably the most physically imposing bloke (I will have come up against),” Green said.

With Green boasting a record of 28-3, 25 KOs and Siaca a log of 22-6, 19 KOs, the fight looks unlikely to go the distance.

Green, 36, compared the attraction of his power-punching to that of famous former heavyweight world champion Mike Tyson.

“If I catch Siaca in Round One, he will go. That’s the excitement factor like when Tyson used to fight, people used to want to go and see,” Green said.

© AAP 2012

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