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It was good to see a well-matched card – on paper at least— Sunday evening at the Murdoch- Green promo. Imports from Thailand and across the Tasman with good records performed well, nothing like some of the ‘cardboard cut-outs’ that often appear as well burnt-offerings to the god-of-padding-out-Australian-records.

Brad Milner, despite taking some breath-sapping lefts to the body early, just kept on coming against the smoother style of Matt Paulley and landed a hard earned draw. The indomitable Kiwi also showed deft head evasion as he marched up and although my card had him one point short at the finish, I very nearly gave him a 10-8 for the last and that would have brought him up square.

Parkpoom Jangphonak, whose style is as difficult to counter as his name is to pronounce, was always in command against a game but non-plussed Chad Bennett and how he only carded a majority points win is way beyond me. More on this in ‘Bombsights’.

Card opener and kick boxer, Jason Tramsek, was gutsy and, was the only man in the bout with the punch to finish it, but he stands too square on and copped too many singles to the body. This left him too drained to land a finisher on the too high held chin of Anthony McCracken who otherwise boxed well enough to win clearly.

Robert Toomey and Tyrone Tongia put on a good joust with Tyrone’s neater work earning him a unanimous nod.

Ben Burrage and Adam Wills staged an entertaining, if untidy rumble, tumble, wrestle, brawl in which one of the few clean punches landed in round two, a jab from Burrage, caused a termination in round three. The unlucky Wills’ eye was virtually closed by this and even though the doctor allowed him to continue, ref. Ignatius Missailidis wisely called it off a round or so later.

Daniel Lovett had it all his own way against a fairly inert Justin Clements who looked much heavier than Porky, although there was less than two kilo difference in their announced weights. It looked like the toast of Cranbourne could have finished it earlier had he been of a mind to.

In the main, Green, who is very imposing at lightheavy, was a class above Paul Murdoch on the night and the way Paul was hit in the first, he did well to last out that round and the first minute of the second. Danny put Murdoch down with an absolute peach after Paul had opened up with some good jabs. Another solid right at the bell had Paul looking very vulnerable.

In round two, as Green got going, it appeared that the Geelong lad decided he was going to go out with his boots on and started to trade. He landed a couple too but it was like throwing cream puffs at Merv Williams’ town hall and the savage sandgroper soon had him on the deck again. Having more balls than a billiard table, Murdoch was up insisting to ref. Malcolm Bulner that he was OK to go on but father/trainer, Bob, was at the ring steps wisely counselling Malcolm to call it off.

It was bad luck for Paul, who is a much better fighter than Green made him look on this occasion. Danny, for his part, looks scary at lightheavy and his hand speed strangely seems to have increased with his poundage. Maybe that’s something he picked up from his bout with Mundine junior