Danny Green is set to come out of retirement for a much-anticipated rematch with old foe Anthony Mundine, with ‘The Man’ to move up two weight divisions for the fight.
Green, 35, made a sudden retirement from boxing in March, but is now expected to make an almost immediate comeback in order to take on Mundine for a second time.
The rematch is yet to be confirmed but it is believed a fight in Perth in early 2009 could be announced this week.
The first Mundine-Green bout was the highest earning fight in Australian boxing history.
Mundine wants to fight at middleweight, but would probably have to move up to light-heavyweight to fight Green.
“Anthony has said that he wants to fight at middleweight, and outside of that division his only real interest would be fighting either Joe Calzaghe or Danny Green,” Mundine’s manager, Khoder Nasser, told Fairfax.
“He’s after big fights, and the big fights are the ones that the public wants, so Anthony knows that nothing would be bigger than a Green rematch - not even a fight with Calzaghe.”
Nasser indicated the rematch with Green was inevitable.
“We’ve agreed on most of the details. I think it just became one of those things that Danny knew he had to do.
“It was just too big to say no to. I think if he didn’t do it, he would sit back later in his life and regret it.”
