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James Green
I was wondering if anyone could tell me much about him. I just saw his fight against future champion John Mugabi. Mugabi had stopped all 20 pro opponents in under 6 rounds before this. Looking on boxrec I saw Green was stopped in 10, and to be honest, I expected a rangy spoiler who extended Mugabi. Instead I saw a fearless warrior who pressed Mugabi for most of the fight. Whilst not exactly clean, or at times even effective, it certainly showed balls and Green took some rounds. He battered Mugabi around the ring in round 3. He kept up a good work rate, despite a badly damaged eye from the 3rd round onwards. I'm definatly going to watch more of him, such a valient effort. |
Re: James Green
working as a dinnerlady now at a school in new jersey.
good fighter. had pretty good technique and ability. his size even though seems like a hindrance he used it to his best abilty. against olajide it was pretty nip tuck for a few rounds then green just countered olajides jab with a right hand then swarmed with hooks. olajide just pop and moved away. didnt have the TRUE ko power just strength, workrate and some cute moves. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UumUGsLLvo"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UumUGsLLvo[/ame] |
Re: James Green
Green was one of my favority 80's fighters. He was a very good trialhorse who could test most fighters. He was as strong as a bull.
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Re: James Green
That Mugabi fight pretty much ruined Green though. He took a real licking in there and taking long sustained beatings from the big hitters culminating in a late tko loss are usually devastating to careers. No more big wins for him after that fight.
If you have some time, read up on George Francis and what he went through with Mugabi pre-fight for that Hardrock Green fight. Hilarious reading. |
Re: James Green
James also had an exciting meeting with frank Animal Fletcher, with Fletcher
perhaps playing possum in the early rounds..seeing what Hardrock had, but with Frank suddenly turning it on and it becoming apparent James was a Lt-Middle against a ferocious Middleweight...James gave it a good try though. |
Re: James Green
Working as a dinnerlady???
Thats better than dead or in the slammer or Rocky Lockerage. |
Re: James Green
The first thing that comes to mind about Hard Rock Green is that I saw some oddball sports bloopers show one time that had a quick snippet of him training in a strange sort of way. His trainer would blow a bunch of soap bubbles with those little bottles that come with the wand in it, like kids used to buy, and Green would punch all the soap bubbles before they could fall to the ring floor.
Incredibly random little factoid there for ya. |
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Alotta people saw that . It was on NBC Sat afternoon back in good old free tv days.
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Re: James Green
pretty good fighter for a brief moment, gave Fletcher and Mugabi good runs.I think he was born in the same town I live in now in North Carolina.
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Re: James Green
i remember watchin that fight on World of Sport as a kid:D
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