Markus Beyer

Danny Green

Danny Green will be fighting Markus Beyer in Perth late summer - or Germany late winter - for the super-middleweight title of the World Boxing Council. Like it or lump it, Mogens Palle!

The cranky Dane, Palle, says he will take legal action to force the WBC to make Danny Green first of all fight Palle's pug, Mikkel Kessler in Denmark on 12 December.

Only the winner of that one can fight Beyer, Mogens reckons.

Prattle!  Palle blew his chance of a Kessler-Green eliminator by losing the purse bid to Green's man, Justin Manolikos ($585,000 to $611,000). .
Mogen's daughter, Bettina Palle, duly signed the agreement, at WBC headquarters in Mexico City, to proceed with this.

Australia sent the contracts to Palle to sign but he never returned them. He has lost all rights to challenge Danny's interim title.

Palle made further outlandish demands: Six first class air fares to Australia . . . and I, Mogens, get the Nordic television rights!

Of course a l l  television rights belonged to the successful bidder, Manolikos.

So now it is a straight-forward match between the WBC interim champion, Green, and the restored WBC champion, Markus Beyer. The stout hearted German recaptured his title from the Italian, Cristian Sanavia, a built-up middleweight, by sixth round knockout in Erfurt, Germany last Saturday, 9 October.

The Green-Beyer return is to go ahead in January-February. Purse bids will be called.
The German promoter will take some holding. A purse around $3 million, shared by the two fighters, is expected. European television networks can pretty much cover that.

Remember it’s a super return. At first meeting, Danny cut Markus to pieces but then got disqualified.

The heat in Perth around February would be tough on the European. But hometown heat also drove Danny dippy for a day in June.

A Big Fight to look forward to.