Brad Pitt calls for Danny Green: “Send me a contract”
DANNY Green is pencilled in for an August return, and Brad Pitt wants to be in the other corner.
Green (34-5, 28 KOs) is tentatively scheduled to announce his opponent for an August return next week, with an agreement already in place for the three-division titleholder to face an Australian for the first time in six years.
As speculation continues to mount towards a potential opponent, Pitt (19-1, 12 KOs) believes it should be him.
The dexterous former Commonwealth Games gold medalist broke an eighteen month hiatus last week with a convincing shutout decision over Jorge Rodriguez Olivera, despite suffering a hand injury in the opening round.
The 34-year-old Melburnian picked up the vacant WBA Oceania title and a top fifteen world rating with the WBA.
With Green all but set to fight a domestic adversary in Pitt’s backyard, the once-beaten cruiserweight is adamant that there has never been a better time for the pair of former Olympians to clash than right now.
Let's find out who is the better man. No catch weights, no stipulations. Come on Green you Dry Lunch let's do this! pic.twitter.com/USWZ9K9VE1
— brad pitt (@pittyHOLLYWOOD) May 26, 2016
“The last time Danny Green fought an Australian, it went for thirty seconds,” said Pitt in a press release.
“And everybody thought his opponent (Paul Briggs) took a dive.”
“If Green wants to keep fighting, he needs to fight a live body,” he continued. “The Australian public knows when they’re being sold a circus, and that’s what is happening at the moment when he fights, it’s getting old.”
Green hasn’t fought since scoring an unanimous points win over Argentine import Roberto Bolonti last August in a fight where both Green and Bolonti weighed in at a catchweight below 85 kilograms.
While he admits that it is unlikely that Green will face him, Pitt still issued a challenge to the Perth resident.
“He prides himself on being an Aussie battler, but he’s never given a legitimate Australian opponent the opportunity,” he concluded. “The public deserves a real fight and I think everybody knows he’ll get that from me,”
“We are the consensus number one and number two cruiserweights in Australia.”
“Let’s find out who the better man is, no catchweights and no added stipulations. Send me a contract.”
Words: Press Release
Photo: Marty Camilleri/Marty’s Knockout Photography
