IRemeber a great fighter called dave boy green.i think in welterweight he was champ eu or something.But he lost to a dainsh fighter called old hansen in a 4 round ko i think.who is green and what happend after the fight?? anybody knows???
well obviously we know what happened in the fight."who is green" well he was a welterweight champ of europe like you said!
He was Ko'd in a world title challenge by Sugar Ray Leonard by a peach of a left hook. I think its on YouTube.
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well dave "boy" green better known as the "fen tiger" was a rough tough kid who couldn't quite cut it on the world stage.he was a tremendously brave go forward fighter.beat ex champ john h stracey in an eliminator for the world crown and was giving the very good carlos palomino all the trouble he could handle and was ahead on the cards,when he was rendered unconcious by a terrific left hook from the champion in i think the 11th round.came back to fight veteran dane jorgen hansen in what was supposed to be a relatively easy defence of the european title and after having hansen virtually out of there in the 2nd was knocked out in the 3rd by the hard punching dane.despite this he somehow was put in with sugar ray leanord the following year,and was once again badly concussed with a devastating left hook in the 4th round from the sugar man.when asked after the fight why he had put his man in with leanord his manager andy smith came out with the immortal line "we didn't think he could punch!" priceless!to sum up. dave green was a fighter of tremendous guts and determination who was a bit of a nightmare for the welters at european level,but when he stepped up to real world class,basically his chin let him down.
One person has asked a question and another has got the guys hometown wrong....to be fair it was 30 years ago.
Yep, Chateris. I think Hardhands was getting him mixed up with Stracy, same weight, around the same time (ish) and both fair haired.
i know in his fight with stracey there was controversy because stracey ended up with a huge egg above his eye or something,and he was saying it was deliberate when they stopped it.
I think Dave Green was the best British welterweight of the last 50 years. He almost had Palomino until he walked into that left hook - Ring Magazine had it as runner-up for fight of the year in 1977. In addition to beating Stracey he also beat Andy Price, who had wins over Palomino and Cuevas The fight with Leonard should never have happened - Green was well past his best and the style was all wrong. They wanted to match him with Benitez a few years before that - Green might have been champion if that fight had come off, Benitez was a great fighter but Green would have climbed all over him Before the Green-Stracey fight there was a great exchange between Andy Smith (Green's manager) and Terry Lawless (Stracey's manager). Andy Smith said something bad about Stracey and Lawless got mad and called Green a lousy boxer but a bloody good carrot-picker (as a kid Green had picked carrots for a living)
Davey Boy was a fine fighter. A Junior Welter and Welterweight European Champion who gave a mighty fine effort against the often criminally underrated Palomino; it was a thrilling fight. Green had seen much better days by the time he met near peak Leonard, I am not saying Green would of beaten his Sweetness, but a Green of 76-77 would of given Leonard a much stiffer argument. Green was not quite in Honeyghan's league, but he is still up there arguing with the rest as to is #2/#3 best British Welter since WWII.
Best Brit welter of the last 50 years is a bit strong. The Ragamuffin Man has a better record for a start.
Honeyghan had agreat win against Curry. Can't argue with that. But he got clobbered against Starling and Breland. I don't know who would have won if Green and Honeyghan had fought in their primes, but Green was a whole lot more fun to watch
