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Light-heavyweight boxing champion Danny Green leaving the ring

Posted : Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:13:01 GMT
Author : DPA
Category : Sports
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Sydney - Light-heavyweight world boxing champion Danny Green on Tuesday announced he was retiring, resting on his laurels of 25 victories, including 22 by knockout and just three defeats. "I'm getting out on my terms with my dignity and respect intact," Green said. "I have made the decision of an intelligent man, looking to 25 years in the future."

Green, 35, turned professional in 2001, winning his first 16 fights before a controversial fifth-round disqualification against Germany's Markus Beyer in a World Boxing Council (WBC) title challenge in 2003.

Green won the WBC interim supermiddleweight belt with a sixth-round stoppage of Canadian Eric Lucas before suffering a second loss to Beyer in 2005 in a majority points decision in Zwickau, Germany.

His biggest pay day was against fellow Australian Anthony Mundine in 2006. It was a unanimous points loss in front of 30,000 spectators.

Green won his world title by defeating Croatia's Stipe Drews in December.

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