This should settle any doubts: :good Ring Magazine's Annual Ratings - SMW: http://www.boxrec.com/media/index.php/The_Ring_Magazine's_Annual_Ratings:_Super_Middleweight--2000s Ring Magazine's Annual Ratings - LH: http://www.boxrec.com/media/index.php/The_Ring_Magazine's_Annual_Ratings:_Light_Heavyweight--2000s Mundine beat Echols in 2003, who was ranked #4 that year. Green doesn't have any top 5 scalp, let alone top 10 given Lucas wasn't rated in the top 10 in 2003.
keeping all this in mind Green is finally at the weight he belongs in. NEVER and i repeat NEVER should he have fought at SM and he had what 2...3 fights at Lightheavy all 1 sided wins and now a CW win. Either way you say Green has never defeated a top 10 ranked fighter now he can have that test as he finally is where he belongs. I say this with no doubt in my minds he beats Tarver, Johnson and yes i will get hell for this the most overrated fighter out there Dawson. He might not beat Dawson but he would sure given him a good smacking.
LOL at this comment. Green would lose to all of Dawson/Tarver/Glen Johnson. Even though Tarver and Johnson are ancient they would still be way too good for Green at 175. And Chad Dawson would absolutely embarrass Danny Green by winning every second of every rd.
watch the fight with drews it was rigged.. he didnt throw more than 100 punches the whole fight and it was for the light heavy title.. i hope jones knocks him out!!!! calls himself true blue lol
This thread emphasizes the danger of comparing fighters of different eras. In Australia alone we've had many great fighters who challenged unsuccessfully years ago for 'real' world titles or fought long and distinguished careers and never got a chance at challenging for a 'real' world title - we're talking here about eras when there were only 1, 2 or at worst 3 world titles on offer. These days fighters can avoid the very top fighters in their divisions like the plague and still accumulate a CV full of relatively worthless belts. Good luck to Green and Mundine Jnr for their relative successes but if anybody dares to compare them to our true boxing greats.... .....I'LL BLOODY WELL THROW UP!!
So how does that work? Going by your words Dawson is a glass chin waiting to happen, and Green's a massive puncher. How does Green just give him a good smacking without knocking him out, yet still lose? It would have actually been less moronic to just say that you still think Green KO's him.
Pull your head in! Dawson would make The Green Machine look like a chump! If Adamek struggled with Dawson then what chance would Danny have
most unbiased people realise this hence the retirement after winning the WBA LHW titlewithout once defending it.he had something that the big boys in the division wanted and would have easily taken from him.thats why hes won the CW from a bum rather than stay at LHW and take the fights many think he ran from.quite smart when you think about it.
Nah really doesnt settle anything..Those rankings are for year ending. Green destroyed Lucas right at the end of 2003, so its no surprise he fell out of the rankings. At the time he beat him he was likely in the top 5, at least in the top 10..Any objective observer would had had this way seeing as though he was top 4 at the end of 2002 and he lost a highly debatable decision just before he lost to Green. Either way these rankings are pretty bull**** a lot of the time anyway.
I agree - don't know why Echols was ranked so highly by Ring, considering that by the time he fought Mundine he already had 4 losses on his record, had had only a handful of fights at SMW, and his best win at SMW was the controversial ref stoppage in the Brewer fight, where Echols got dropped twice before the ref stopped the fight while Brewer was still on his feet. Echols was highly over-rated. Green, meanwhile, has the scalps of Lucas and Drews on his resume, and considering he beat Lucas for the interim WBA SMW title and he beat Drews for the real WBA LHW title, I'd say he has beaten at least 2 top 5 fighters, if you want to get official about it.
You would have to think Lucas was in the top 5....he was the WBC champ for a few years. Don't know much about Drews other than he beat Branco who was getting on a bit....maybe not top 5 but top 10. If all Greens going to do is beat fringe top 5 to 10 in the world bring it on :good I don't understand this beat the best or forget it attitude. Nobody here is calling Green P4P champ.....fact is he's a 3 or 4 time world title winner in 3 divisions.....but we all know what belts he's won and who he fought....nobody here is saying he's like Fenech
The way I look at it is, if you've beaten the bloke who holds one of the big 4 belts in your division, then you've beaten a top 5 fighter. Drews was the holder of the WBA LHW belt, so he was top 5. Lucas was most certainly top 8 (if you account for 2 fighters for each of the big 4 belts i.e. the beltholder and the #1 contender).