Green confident of Mundine showdown

While Anthony Mundine insists he's got bigger fish to fry overseas, former world
champion Danny Green is "100 per cent" certain the re-match between the pair will go
ahead next year.
Green cut short his retirement recently in order to have another crack at Mundine,
who enjoyed a unanimous points victory over the West Australian at super
middleweight in Sydney three years ago.
But the planned re-match was thrown into doubt on Tuesday when Mundine suggested his
upcoming fight against IBO middleweight champion Daniel Geale could be his last in
Australia and that Green was no longer a priority.
"I'm pretty confident, in fact I'm very confident the fight will take place," Green
told AAP.
"The only reason he's going to try to put it off is because he's obviously very
worried at my power at light heavyweight.
"But 100 per cent the fight's going to take place.
"What you've got to understand is the brains of the outfit with Anthony Mundine is
with (his manager) Khoder Nasser and I think if you were to ask Khoder whether the
fight between myself and him is going to take place I think you would find it would
be a resounding yes.
"I'm not too sure of where Mundine's going with all this talk of doing this and
doing that in different weight divisions with bigger fish to fry because financially
there's no bigger fish to fry than me.
"The first fight was the biggest fight he's ever had and one of the biggest grossing
super middleweight fights in the history of the sport.
"The public want to see the fight again."
Green, who begins his comeback against South African Anthony van Niekerk in Perth on
April 26, said Mundine could talk the talk but was scared to walk the walk.
"He's confused me, because when I did retire all he wanted to do was talk about me
and how I was scared to get a whipping, but now that I've come out of retirement and
I'm saying 'come on, let's do it, let's see what you've got', he's gone the other
way," Green said.
"I don't know if he's running scared or not, I'm not too sure.
"But one thing I do know is he's confusing himself as well as many other people with
what he's saying.
"He's contradicted what he said for the whole time I was retired, when he was
calling me out and disrespecting me.
"So I don't know what he's playing at. He's a pretty strange cat.
"The damage might be taking it's toll if you get my drift."
Green, who turned 36 earlier this month, said his short-lived retirement had left
him physically and mentally fresh.