On December second, 42-year-old Danny Green will climb into the ring for his second fight after a 33-month lay off to fight German-based Montenegrin garbage man Konni Konrad.
Green has a long list of questionable opponents and Konrad is no exception. Konrad has a world ranking of 129 on the boxrec non-biased computerised rankings system. His record currently stands at 22 wins, 2 losses and 1 draw, not to bad you might say? A closer look at Konrad’s record tells the real story, of his 22 wins 15 have come from fighting fighters who have lost more then 50 per cent of their fights, with the other 7 wins coming against fighters with less then impressive records.
In Konrad’s last bout he was was completely outclassed and stopped in seven rounds by WBA regular ‘champion’ Juergen Braehmer – Sergey Kovalev is the actual champion.
Green states that Konrad “is definitely going to be a very stern test.” and that “He’s a hungry young bloke who’s coming to take what I’ve got. We’ve chosen a guy who’s going to test me.” Perhaps Green’s looking for the stern type of test he got from South African club fighter Anthony van Niekerk when he made his first comeback in 2009, or when he fought Argentinean plumber Julio Cesar Dominguez for the farcical and largely unrecognised vacant IBO cruiserweight world title. And how could we forget Green’s ‘world title’ defence against a very ill Paul Briggs who had retired three years prior due to neurological problems.
One must question what Green’s intentions are this stage of his career. If his shameless calling out of Anthony Mundine is to truly try and get his longtime rival into the ring, why is he not fighting at light heavyweight, a weight that Mundine recently said he would consider to fight Green at?
Since 2009 Green has campaigned as a cruiserweight with 9 of his 11 fights being fought at a catchweight, bringing super middleweights and light heavyweights up to his catchweight and even a heavyweight down to fight in what has become known as the ‘Danny division’.
Green touched the scales at 84.93kg for his last fight against the limited Roberto Bolonti. Assuming he weighs in the same for his next bout he will still be 5.56kg over the light heavyweight limit of 79.378kg. Does Green really think a fight with Mundine will happen or is he simply trying to milk their rivalry to the very last drop?
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