By Mark Vester
IBO cruiserweight Danny Green is moving forward with his career and taking a look at a few options in the aftermath of his broken negotiations to secure a fight with Bernard Hopkins. The Aussie champ claims to have reached a verbal deal with Hopkins for a 50-50 split and then Hopkins changed the terms to a 60-40. Green offered Hopkins 15 times what he made for his last fight with Enrique Ornelas.
Hopkins will instead have a rematch with Roy Jones Jr. on April 17 in Las Vegas. Green stopped Jones in one round last month in Australia.
"I offered Bernard Hopkins 15 times his previous purse and that was a guarantee and that was the minimum he was going to earn," Green told AAP. "We had a verbal agreement. Bernard changed it and then we allowed him his demands and he's chosen against fighting me and chosen to fight Roy Jones in America.
"There's nothing more I could have done apart from fighting him for free. I did everything in my power to make this fight happen because we want to bring the big fights to Australia. Financially, he (Hopkins) has got everything to gain by coming here. He may see it as beating Roy Jones and then fighting me after that, who knows."
Green is considering a few options at cruiser and even a move to heavyweight or a drop in weight to light heavyweight. A move to heavyweight would seem strange. Green barely weighs over 180-pounds for his cruiserweight bouts.
"There could be a move to heavyweight, there could be a light heavyweight fight, so I'm just keeping my options going. The signs are clear that I want to get back in because I'm shadow boxing the fridge, I'm shadow boxing the stereo, I'm shadow boxing the barbecue and I'm shadow boxing my chihuahua Rocky," Green said.
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