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Despite concentrating on the next fight in his comeback campaign, Danny Green has continued to verbally spar Anthony Mundine over a possible rematch.
Mundine, former Indigenous and Torres Straight Islander Person of the year, originally stipulated unorthodox conditions for a rematch including that Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull “recognise my people on the flag and recognise my people on the anthem.”
Speaking at the Loyal Foundation Sportsman’s lunch, Green said he agreed to drug testing and had no problems with his rival’s requests of changing the Australian flag.
“I’m in talks with Mal now about getting a high resolution photo of Choc for the flag,” he said.
“Out of all the stipulations there, only one is an issue … getting Choc’s face on the flag shouldn’t be a problem, it should already be there.”
According to Green, reaching an agreement on weight remains the outstanding obstacle to sealing the deal on a rematch of 2006’s bout, which saw Mundine emerge victorious.
Green defended his preference to fight at catchweight with his next fight set at 83kg despite his opponent, Konni Konrad, fighting the majority of his career at light heavyweight.
“Everyone goes on about my career and having catchweight fights but those people don’t obviously know the sport very well,” he said.
“The best fighters in the world fight at catchweight including Floyd Mayweather.”
“I’ve been fighting much bigger guys.. on two occasions I’ve had them come down a few kilograms but I’ve given away nearly ten kilograms, so these bananas don’t have a clue what they’re talking about.”
Green conceded it gets harder to cut kilos to make weight as he ages.
“As I’m getting older it’s harder. I do it a long way out now rather than the few weeks leading in.”
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