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  • Boxing: 'Assassin' Says Green Too Mean For Mundine

    'ASSASSIN' SAYS GREEN TOO MEAN FOR MUNDINE
    By Grantlee Kieza

    The Daily Telegraph (Australia)
    May 10, 2006 Wednesday
    State Edition

    VIC Darchinyan and Danny Green shared a house just after the Sydney
    Olympics, iron sharpening iron as the two out-of-towners eyed pro
    careers.

    Each day the Armenian assassin and the Perth puncher would run an 8km
    circuit near their bachelor pad in Bankstown and the way Darchinyan
    tells it, even in the last kilometre Green would chase down other
    joggers the way he ran over his first 16 pro opponents by KO.

    "Danny never gives up," said Darchinyan, who leaves for Las Vegas
    today to defend his world flyweight title against an undefeated
    Mexican before 20,000 fans in Las Vegas on June 4.

    "This is why he will beat Anthony Mundine. Anthony is a good fighter,
    strong, very fast, good movement, but Danny is mentally stronger
    and tougher. He is a real fighter who will do anything to win. [If]
    you hit him, it only makes him fight harder."

    The Man faces The Machine next Wednesday at Aussie Stadium in a
    WBA super-middleweight title eliminator and Darchinyan and trainer
    Jeff Fenech will be keeping tabs on the fight from their training
    bases in Phoenix and Los Angeles, where Darchinyan will spar world
    super-bantamweight champ Israel Vasquez.

    Fenech says he has no ill feelings toward Green despite their
    bitter split last year and believes his former protege's tenacity
    and toughness will keep Mundine on the back foot and out of the
    victory equation.

    Darchinyan, a 30-year-old southpaw slugger, defends his IBF flyweight
    title against undefeated 28-year-old Mexican Luis Maldonado, who has
    33 wins and a draw, 25 wins by knockout.

    * NEVADA boxing regulators yesterday revoked Zab Judah's licence and
    fined him $326,000, the harshest penalty yet for a melee which broke
    out at last month's welterweight title fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr.

    Judah was punished for landing a punch to the back of Mayweather's
    head in the April 8 IBF title bout and for joining the fracas that
    ensued when Mayweather's trainer and uncle, Roger Mayweather, burst
    into the ring.

    The Nevada Athletic Commission also revoked the licence of Judah's
    father and trainer, Yoel Judah, and fined him $130,000 for being the
    second person to rush into the ring and for punching Roger Mayweather.
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