Green vs Dominguez: Roy Jones, Career at Stake
By Mark Vester
When former cruiserweight champion Danny Green faces Julio Cesar Dominguez for the vacant IBO Cruiserweight world title in Biloxi, Mississippi, he admits a loss will not only end the plan for a dream fight with Roy Jones Jr. but it will also end his career. Jones faces Jeff Lacy in the main event on the same card. If Green and Jones win, they are set to fight in Australia at the end of the year.
"Dominguez is going to be very hungry. I have to concentrate on him 100% and defeat him in a good showing," Green said to WA Today. "If I don't do that there will be no fight against Roy Jones Jr. That's my dream fight. If I don't beat him, no Roy Jones Jr and my career will probably be over. Even though he doesn't have world title experience, he has balls and so do I.
"We're both putting them on the line for the American people. The style we employ won't be pitter-patter; one of us is getting knocked out - and I'm preparing so it won't be me."
Green says the training at Jones' training facility at his home in Pensacola, Florida was tough due to the heat and humidity. He said Jones keeps a very tight training camp. Green is preparing for a brawl, the only way Dominguez knows how to fight.
"It was a complicated process, smoke and mirrors, text messages to rendezvous at this point, and a code to put it in the gate. All very secret and undercover," Green said. "It is not tough working out what he is going to do or what we think he is going to do, the only thing he knows how to do is bang away, come forward and throw bombs.
"He is tough kid and this is his first chance at a world title so he is going to be very hungry. But this is my fifth time and my third time overseas so I know what to expect. It is going to be an exciting fight. I have got more experience and more power than the kid. He has got hunger on his side - but I still don't think he is going to be as hungry as I am."
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