By Mark Vester
After watching Saturday's fight, IBO cruiserweight champion Danny Green is happy the fight with Bernard Hopkins never took place. After Green knocked Jones out in the first round in December, he was negoiating for a fight with Hopkins. They were unable to reach a deal and Hopkins moved forward with a Jones rematch. The fight lacked very little action and as Green predicted, Jones was gun-shy in the fight and Hopkins would not take any risks.
"Roy was gun shy after being knocked out in one round, unwilling to trade, terrified of being knocked out again," Green told AAP. "Bernard was unwilling to take any risks, he surprised me the way he carried on and whinged with those shots behind the head.
"That was like 1980s soccer, the way he dropped to the canvas. It was a very bizarre fight to watch actually. It's a good thing he didn't come to Australia. It was a very uninteresting bout between two superstars of the sport. They provided a very, very uninteresting spectacle."
Green says the performance by Hopkins has killed a very lucrative fight between the two of them in Australia.
"Straight after the Roy Jones fight, there was a lot of momentum, that's now gone and he just put paid to any chance of Bernard Hopkins coming to Australia. Bernard is really beatable. He's just waiting to be picked off," Green said.
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