By Mark Vester

IBO cruiserweight champion Danny Green is furious and promised to batter Paul Briggs badly for being well over the agreed-upon catch-weight for tomorrrow's title clash at Challenge Stadium in Perth. Briggs was almost 10 minutes late to Tuesday's weigh-in for the 84kg-limit cruiserweight fight and appeared nervous as he approached the scale.

Briggs weighed 192.7-pounds, which is nearly eight pounds above the agreed weight of 185-pounds. Green weighed 184-pounds. He doesn't care about the weight, he plans to go forward to dish out some punishment.

"Yeah of course, I could pull the fight right now," Green said to The Sydney Morning Herald. "It's within my right to say 'go lose the weight'. But do you know what, I don't care. Somebody get him a hamburger, he's going to need some energy."

"When you come in at three kilograms over a weight that was designated nine weeks ago, it's very unprofessional, it's very disrespectful and ... tomorrow night I'm going to punish Paul Briggs, I'm going to punish him bad. I'll take him at 97 kilograms, I don't care what weight he is. I can't get angry. If I get angry, that's when I get open to wearing shots. It's just unprofessional, disrespectful, but that's cool. When the bell goes tomorrow night, punch by punch I'll pay that disrespect back, with interest, too.

"I'm just focusing in on my fist landing cleanly to his liver, to his sternum, to his shoulders, to his chin, to his ears, to his face, everywhere. Just visualising the punishment. I think by the time the fight's finished, whether it goes 12 rounds or one round, he's going to be a very sore and sorry person."

Briggs doesn't think that he did anything wrong because the cruiserweight limit is 200-pounds. His reasoning makes everyone assume that he never intended to make the agreed weight limit.

"The cruiserweight limit is 91kg," Briggs said. "This meeting halfway in between weights is something he's picked up off Roy Jones Jr. I haven't done anything wrong today. I've trained hard, I've come here, I've made weight (under the cruiserweight's maximum). Easy as that. I'm not into all the 'I'll meet you halfway and we'll meet at 83-point this and that'. Weight's cruiserweight, end of story. You want to fight me at cruiserweight, fight me at cruiserweight, that's it. I'm not making any excuses, there's no excuses to be made here."