‘ASSASSIN’ SAYS GREEN TOO MEAN FOR MUNDINE
By Grantlee Kieza
The Daily Telegraph (Australia)
May 10, 2006 Wednesday
State Edition
VIC Darchinyan and Danny Green shared a house just after the Sydney
Olympics, iron sharpening iron as the two out-of-towners eyed pro
careers.
Each day the Armenian assassin and the Perth puncher would run an 8km
circuit near their bachelor pad in Bankstown and the way Darchinyan
tells it, even in the last kilometre Green would chase down other
joggers the way he ran over his first 16 pro opponents by KO.
“Danny never gives up,” said Darchinyan, who leaves for Las Vegas
today to defend his world flyweight title against an undefeated
Mexican before 20,000 fans in Las Vegas on June 4.
“This is why he will beat Anthony Mundine. Anthony is a good fighter,
strong, very fast, good movement, but Danny is mentally stronger
and tougher. He is a real fighter who will do anything to win. [If]
you hit him, it only makes him fight harder.”
The Man faces The Machine next Wednesday at Aussie Stadium in a
WBA super-middleweight title eliminator and Darchinyan and trainer
Jeff Fenech will be keeping tabs on the fight from their training
bases in Phoenix and Los Angeles, where Darchinyan will spar world
super-bantamweight champ Israel Vasquez.
Fenech says he has no ill feelings toward Green despite their
bitter split last year and believes his former protege’s tenacity
and toughness will keep Mundine on the back foot and out of the
victory equation.
Darchinyan, a 30-year-old southpaw slugger, defends his IBF flyweight
title against undefeated 28-year-old Mexican Luis Maldonado, who has
33 wins and a draw, 25 wins by knockout.
* NEVADA boxing regulators yesterday revoked Zab Judah’s licence and
fined him $326,000, the harshest penalty yet for a melee which broke
out at last month’s welterweight title fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Judah was punished for landing a punch to the back of Mayweather’s
head in the April 8 IBF title bout and for joining the fracas that
ensued when Mayweather’s trainer and uncle, Roger Mayweather, burst
into the ring.
The Nevada Athletic Commission also revoked the licence of Judah’s
father and trainer, Yoel Judah, and fined him $130,000 for being the
second person to rush into the ring and for punching Roger Mayweather.