Danny Green power leaves trainer stunned -- Daily Telegraph

By Nick Walshaw, The Daily Telegraph

PROOF of the power is Angelo Hyder phoning a Perth chiropractor this week. Aching.

The Sydney fight trainer explaining down that phone line how an urgent house call is required for work on his shoulders, neck and back. On both elbows and wrists. "And can we please get it done this afternoon, mate ... Greeny wants me back on the focus pads tonight."

This is the reality of Danny Green's right hand. A frightening conglomeration all intent, intimidation and oversized knuckle. A fist that, Hyder insists, is Australia's most deadly. You see, while Green and his entourage fronted a large media contingent at Kings Park, Perth yesterday, the key statement had already been made almost 24 hours before. Announced inside a tiny Scarborough hotel gym where the space was cramped and the free weights paltry.

Its clientele compromising one wiry Indian guy on a treadmill.

Yep, this was the last place you'd expect a world champion to hold his final preparations. And the first all those cameras should've looked.

Because here, three storeys below the simple apartment Green's been sharing with Hyder since arriving last Thursday, you can watch the IBO cruiserweight champion saying everything with two gloved hands. Sweating, moving, whacking. More than once causing the experienced Hyder to wince in pain.

And later over dinner Green's trainer will quietly concede that, yes, he has been forced to see a Perth chiropractor. Soaking nightly in hot Painaway tubs too. As sore as you'd expect from a fella insisting Green's right could now challenge Great Whites and Eastern Browns as our most deadly Australian.

"Right now Greeny could knock those Klitschko brothers, the Russian heavyweights, cold," Hyder insists. "Honestly, I've held the pads for Aussie heavyweights like Bob Mirovic and Kali Meehan - none of them have his power. Right now, Dan's hitting harder than any fighter I've ever been involved with ... his left is harder than any Aussie heavyweight's right."

Green's conditioner Hayden Knowles agrees, adding: "You look at his birth certificate and this just shouldn't be happening ... but Danny Green's punches are getting stronger with age."

Of course, this close to his world title defence against Manny Siaca, Green himself has nought to say on the topic.

You want a quote, ask about Siaca.

You see, despite his $1.14 favouritism with TAB Sportsbet, Green knows the wiry Puerto Rican can prove an awkward opponent. A fella boasting reach, nous and one of those chins you could whack for weeks with a shovel and not dent. A fighter who, unlike Roy Jones Jr, will fire back.

It's why Green has sparred some 100 rounds for tomorrow night's fight. Why he's used six sparring partners, worked closely with cage fighters and trained with such intensity three noses have been broken. Why right now, in this tiny hotel gym, his combinations rip into those moving mitts like shotgun blasts.

Hyder wincing as he goes.

Source: dailytelegraph.com.au