By Mark Vester
At the Challenge Stadium in Perth, Australia, former WBA light heavyweight champion Danny Green (25-3, 23KOs) returned to the ring after a brief retirement stint to stop Anthony Van Niekirk (21-7-2, 13KOs) in two rounds. Green appeared to be too stong from the first minute of the fight. He shook Van Niekirk with every punch. In the second, he dropped him with a left/right combination. He was sent down again moments later with a hard right hand that got the stoppage.
The tension builds for a rematch of the richest and biggest fight in Australia, a clash with rival Anthony Mundine. The fight is now harder to make since Mundine dropped down to middleweight, making them two division apart. Money talks, but a few weeks ago Mundine began to state that he didn't need Green and how he planned to challenge the top middleweights like Kelly Pavlik and Felix Sturm. Most saw it as nothing but talk to get the upper hand in negotiations when the two of them sit back at the table to work out the figures. When Green announced his retirement last year, it was Mundine and his management that hounded him to return.
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