Antonio Tarver Stops Danny Green, Wins The IBO Crown
At the Entertainment Centre in Sydney, Australia, Antonio Tarver (29-6, 20KOs) stopped Danny Green (31-4, 27KOs) within ten rounds to capture the IBO cruiserweight title.
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Antonio Tarver, Zab Judah Return To The Biggest Stage
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Score one for resurrections. Two of the week’s three world championship fights involve fighters – one a top-5 challenger and one a unifying belt-holder – whose careers looked something less than title-worthy just a few years ago. On Wednesday in Sydney, Australia, 42-year-old Antonio Tarver aims for laurels in a second weight class when he faces incumbent and hometown favorite Danny Green for an increasingly relevant IBO cruiserweight strap. Three days later in Las Vegas, ex-welterweight champion Zab Judah continues a shrunken reinvention at 140 pounds with a 12-round IBF/WBA merger against fellow claimant Amir Khan. And whomever claims to have seen it coming, please stand up. Lest we forget, Tarver appeared dead in the light heavyweight water after one-sided losses to Bernard Hopkins, Chad Dawson and Dawson again in three progressively less-interesting spotlight bouts from 2006 to 2009. He chose gluttony while putting on 46 pounds for a foray among the heavyweights in 2010, but quickly and wisely realized – with just an uninspiring 10-round defeat of Nagy Aguilera under a stretched belt – that bigger wasn’t better when it came to making “Magic.” Conveniently enough a mid-range pit stop awaits at cruiserweight, where Green, himself a former 175-pound incumbent, has dined on a menu of ex-light heavies playing out the string or seeking an easy title belt – or both – since winning the IBO jewelry in 2008. Tarver says he’s different. Green disagrees. The Aussie copped the vacant crown against Julio Cesar Dominguez in Biloxi, Miss., but has subsequently whooped it up for the locals while handling embarrassed veterans Roy Jones Jr., Manny Siaca and Paul Briggs in a combined 10 minutes, 26 seconds of in-ring time.
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Photos: Danny Green, Antonio Tarver Make Weight
IBO cruiserweight champion Danny Green and American challenger Antonio Tarver have displayed impressive physiques as they prepare for Wednesday's world title bout at the Sydney Entertainment Centre.
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Danny Green Beefs Up For Tarver, Ignores Mind Games
A beefed-up Danny Green is set to come in at his heaviest weight for Wednesday's IBO world title boxing defence against American 'assassin' Antonio Tarver.
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Tarver: A Green Mistake, He Picked The Wrong Guy
Australia's IBO cruiserweight champion Danny Green says challenger Antonio Tarver is a "piece of meat" he has to break down in Wednesday's world title fight at the Sydney Entertainment Centre.
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Tarver: Green's Aggression Will Get Him Knocked Out
Antonio Tarver says Danny Green could become the first man to cut him in his distinguished boxing career but he's warned Australia's IBO cruiserweight champion he will be playing a game of hide-and-seek in Wednesday's world title bout.
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Danny Green: Tarver Can Be Broken, I'll Break Him!
IBO cruiserweight champion Danny Green has promised to break former champion Antonio Tarver on Wednesday night at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in Australia. Green is angry with the comments that were made by Tarver's trainer, Jimmy Williams, who said the Australian boxer has primitive skills. Green has watched tapes of Tarver and doesn't feel any intimidation from the experienced boxer.
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Antonio Tarver – Is The Magic Still There at 42?
By Thomas Gerbasi - When you’re magic, how could you possibly disappear? That’s the question Antonio “Magic Man” Tarver is asking just before he steps into the ring with Danny Green in Sydney, Australia on July 20th. Sure, he’s 42, but being over 40 hasn’t stopped Bernard Hopkins and Glen Johnson from maintaining their relevance in the fight game. And with just 34 fights over 14 years, just a couple wars, and no knockout defeats, you could probably scrape a few years off his clock, right? “I’ve been trying to tell everybody that but they don’t want to hear me,” he laughs. It is true though, and while a sporadic fight schedule at his age probably isn’t preferable, the former light heavyweight champion isn’t looking at sticking around just to fight anybody. As always, he’s been smart about his career, so if it’s not a big fight, he’s really not interested. And at least in Australia, the Green fight is a big one. “I’m excited about the fight, I really am, and at age 42, I know I’m not gonna get these opportunities a lot going forward, and I’ve got to take advantage of this one as if this is my last and this is how we approach it,” said Tarver, who left for the land down under on July 6th to get acclimated and ready for his bout for the IBO cruiserweight title. It’s his second straight bout above the 175 pound weight limit where he made his name, and while the first – a ten round decision win over Nagy Aguilera at heavyweight last October – didn’t set exactly set hearts racing, it did push him back into the win column after back-to-back losses to Chad Dawson and got the wheels turning again when it comes to the latest stage of his career. “I think when I first made my debut at heavyweight, I kinda rushed it and I wasn’t in the best physical condition that I should have been in,” admits Tarver, who weighed in at 221 for the bout with the journeyman. “It was trial and error and the fight showed that. I got injured early and I had to fight through pain and everything, but overall I did what I went to do, which was win, against someone who I felt at the time was a credible guy. He had only been stopped by Samuel Peter, who is one of the most devastating punchers in that division, I hurt the guy, and I never thought in a million years that he would end up running in that fight, and that’s what happened. He started running and he really didn’t want to come at me, and that’s because he felt my power early. Who knows what would have happened if he would have stood still and fought. But I can’t question a guy when he’s getting hit – should he stay in there or should he get out of there. He felt my power and he was on his bicycle for the majority of the fight, which was surprising to me, but it just goes to show you, I can punch.”
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Rabah vs Hlatshwayo on Green-Tarver Undercard
Next Wednesday evening on the undercard of Danny Green’s IBO Cruiserweight Title defence against American Antonio Tarver from the Sydney Entertainment Centre, will be a battle between 2 top 15 rated welterweights. Perth-based, Tunisian-born 2 time IBF World Title challenger Naoufel “Chocolata” Ben Rabah faces former IBF & IBO Welterweight World Champion, South African Isaac “The Angel” Hlatshwayo for the vacant IBF Australasian Welterweight Title over 12 rounds.
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Tarver: I Will Break Green's Will, Then Knock Him Out!
The long-time trainer of IBO cruiserweight challenger Antonio Tarver has branded the boxing style of reigning champion Danny Green "primitive".
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