Green-Flores: Danny Faces His Biggest Opponent To Date

Now 37 years old, Green, a native of Perth, captured the vacant IBO crown with a fifth-round stoppage of Julio Cesar Dominguez in the semifinal feature to a Roy Jones Jr.-Jeff Lacy main event 13 months ago at the Coast Coliseum in Biloxi, Miss. He earned a signature victory with his one-round TKO of Jones in his next fight four months later.

Green is 30-3 with 27 knockouts and is unbeaten – 18-0 – in his career above 168 pounds. “Flores is arguably the biggest fighter I’ve ever had to fight and I’m expecting a difficult encounter going up against a very skillful undefeated boxer”

Flores, 31, a former Golden Gloves champion improved to 24-0-1 and scored his 15th career knockout when he stopped Epifanio Mendoza in four rounds on the Jones-Lacy show in 2009.

A San Francisco native now living in Chandler, Ariz., he is the No. 2-ranked challenger at cruiserweight in the IBO’s Top 100 computerized rankings for September.