{"id":850,"date":"2009-12-11T18:53:44","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T08:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandralee.com.au\/?p=850"},"modified":"2009-12-11T18:55:55","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T08:55:55","slug":"boxer-danny-green-to-tackle-sydney-to-hobart-yacht-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/2009\/12\/boxer-danny-green-to-tackle-sydney-to-hobart-yacht-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxer Danny Green to tackle Sydney to Hobart yacht race"},"content":{"rendered":"
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World champion boxer Danny Green - getting ready for the 2009 Sydney to Hobart yacht race<\/p><\/div>\n

It took Danny Green<\/strong> just two days \u2013 and a pile of changed nappies and school runs with his kids Archie<\/strong> and Chloe<\/strong> \u2013 to come back to earth from his brilliant 2-minute fight with American Roy Jones Junior<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Green told me earlier today that he couldn\u2019t wait to get home to Perth after spending nearly two months in Sydney in training for the fight on December 2.<\/p>\n

The world champ shocked the boxing world when he unexpectedly KO\u2019d the 40-year-old Jones<\/a><\/strong> in two minutes to successfully defend his International Boxing Organisation cruiserweight crown. No one \u2013 except Green<\/a><\/strong> <\/a>himself \u2013 had given him a chance against the multi-world prizefighter.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was very satisfying after 20 years of boxing,\u201d he said with typical understatement. \u201cJones worried me. He is one of the greatest fighters of all time and he is going to go down in the record books as an all-time great. As a fighter, he is electric and so exciting.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one really gave me a shake, and understandably – he is <\/em>Roy Jones.\u201d<\/p>\n

Green explained his strategy to 650 people today at a charity fund-raiser for the Loyal Foundation<\/a><\/strong>, which is entering a celebrity crew (including Green) in the 2009 Rolex Sydney-Hobart<\/em><\/strong> yacht race.<\/p>\n

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Danny Green at the Loyal charity fund-raiser<\/p><\/div>\n

His tactic was to run in early and land a punch anywhere he could, just to \u201clet him know you are in for a long night, fella\u201d.<\/p>\n

As history knows, it worked and Green landed a ripper and Jones\u2019s long night lasted just two minutes and two seconds.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought wow, he is in trouble and the punch made a helluva smack.\u201d<\/p>\n

I met Green, his adored wife, Nina<\/strong>, and kids Chloe<\/strong> and Archie<\/strong> early last year when I was writing a cover story \u00a0for sunday magazine<\/a><\/em><\/strong> around the time he retired for the first time. Today he told me there was no way that retirement was on the cards \u2013 at least not any time soon.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I\u2019m having too much fun, I love boxing,\u201d he said. He returned to the ring for the simple reason that he missed the sport.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the 36-year-old is gearing up for the Sydney-Hobart<\/a>. \u201cTo be honest, I am looking forward to it but I am shitting myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

The boxer with a massive heart joins Olympian Grant Hackett<\/strong>, Wallaby great Phil Kearns<\/strong>, rugby star Phil Waugh<\/strong> and television host Larry Emdur<\/strong> on the super maxi Loyal, which will be skippered by Sean <\/strong>Langman<\/strong>, an experienced yachtie who was born on a boat in Rushcutters Bay and has been sailing since the day he first drew breath. . They hope to raise $1 million for various charities around the country and they aim to win line honours in one of the most thrilling and dangerous ocean yacht races around the world.<\/p>\n

The super maxi was left lying in a paddock in Auckland until four months ago\u00a0when Langman, who had raced in 18 Sydney to Hobarts, and a mate got their hands on it. They have lengthened it and gave it a new keel and new sails. “There’s lot of challenges in front of us and I give it [the yacht] at good chance,” he said.<\/p>\n

Green said he had enormous respect for the professional yachtsmen and women who he reckons have way more courage than any boxer or rugby player.<\/p>\n

“They are going out into the unknown and you are at the mercy of the climate – that’s just ridiculous,” he said. And of skipper Langman Green joked: “He’s got a pair of figs on him like cantaloupes.”<\/p>\n

Phil Kearns has nominated the Humpty Dumpty Foundation<\/a><\/em><\/strong> <\/a>as his preferred charity to benefit from funds raised.<\/p>\n

If you want to donate to any of the sailors\u2019 chosen charities, go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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