{"id":11843,"date":"2011-06-23T12:43:07","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T16:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=11843"},"modified":"2011-06-23T12:44:37","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T16:44:37","slug":"antonio-tarver-has-fighting-words-for-danny-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=11843","title":{"rendered":"Antonio Tarver has Fighting Words for Danny Green"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u201cHe\u2019s a good fighter,\u201d said Tarver said of Green. \u201cHe\u2019s won multiple titles in different weight classes and he\u2019s a very tough guy and he has a lot of power. I know he\u2019ll be trying to knock me out \u2013 something that\u2019s never been done before \u2013 and vice versa. I\u2019m going to try to knock him out too, so I think with our personalities, it\u2019s like two locomotives heading on one course. We\u2019re looking to collide, and that\u2019s the type of fight that people are going to see.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tarver, a former world light heavyweight champion, has issued defeats to Roy Jones Jr., Glen Johnson, Eric Harding, and Clinton Woods over the course of his stellar 14-year career. But he admits that at 42, he has had to adjust his style. \u201cI know in the past I\u2019ve been an elusive boxer\/puncher, counterpuncher, but I\u2019m 42 years old, so right now I feel like this: I\u2019m too old to be running. I don\u2019t have time to be running around the ring and all that. I\u2019m going to stand my ground; I\u2019m going to punch with him. I know I\u2019m an accurate sharpshooter. I\u2019m looking to break him down to the body, hurt him to the body and really bust him up.<\/p>\n

Tarver says he knows he\u2019s going against the odds in several ways in this fight, but is more than ready for the task.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to trust my defense, and if I get hit on the whiskers I\u2019m going to trust my chin,\u201d he continues. \u201cI\u2019ve got to open him up. I\u2019m not going to be playing around. I mean, I\u2019m going to his backyard and that puts me in a situation where, to me, it\u2019s like I\u2019ve got to do more. So, I\u2019m coming to fight. Danny Green: Look out, Antonio Tarver is coming for your IBO World Championship, and he\u2019s ready to show the world that age is nothing but a number.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tarver\u2019s promoter, Gary Shaw of Gary Shaw Productions, says this fight will be the opening of a new chapter in Tarver\u2019s boxing story. \u201cAntonio had a hall-of-fame career as a counterpuncher,\u201d he explains, \u201chis reflexes and his speed were too much for even other world champions to deal with. But like all the great ones, he\u2019s making adjustments as he gets older. He has such amazing defense and excellent power in both hands and he\u2019s going to utilize them more while standing his ground from now on. What that means is even more excitement for the fans, and more punishing nights for his opponents.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tarver admits he\u2019s looking to make an example out of Green. \u201cI\u2019m commentating for Showtime and I have my own record label, but boxing is my passion. I still love the sport and I feel that on any given night, I can still beat the best cruiserweights in the world, so that\u2019s what I\u2019m going to prove, and Danny Green is in my way.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe\u2019s a good fighter,\u201d said Tarver said of Green. \u201cHe\u2019s won multiple titles in different weight classes and he\u2019s a very tough guy and he has a lot of power. I know he\u2019ll be trying to knock me out \u2013 something that\u2019s never been done before \u2013 and vice versa. I\u2019m going to try to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1921,1414],"class_list":["post-11843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-antonio-tarver","tag-danny-green"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11843"}],"version-history":[{"count":-2,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}