Big point being missed in SBW-Hunt showdown

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Former boxing satellite champion Danny Green will beryllium portion of Stan Sport's adept sum for Saturday night's blockbuster clash betwixt Sonny Bill Williams and Mark Hunt.

Green spoke with Wide World of Sports to interruption down however the combat mightiness unfold.

Sonny Bill Williams volition look Mark Hunt successful a titanic heavyweight clash connected November 5. Watch unrecorded and exclusive connected Stan

WWOS: It's the aforesaid aged communicative for a Mark Hunt combat isn't it - Sonny has a large scope vantage (1.94m gangly compared with 1.78m). I presume Mark volition beryllium relying connected the accidental of a knockout blow?

Green: Mark Hunt's chin is satellite class. His powerfulness is phenomenal, everyone knows astir his powerfulness but Sonny has existent powerfulness too. I deliberation that's what a batch of radical are forgetting, is Sonny's powerfulness and his ability.

He smoked Barry (Hall) successful 30 seconds, helium was done. So I deliberation Sonny volition out-box Mark and beryllium capable to clasp him astatine bay with his length.

But you tin ne'er number retired a feline similar Mark Hunt. He's mislaid 28kg and he's focused, switched on. Mark is 1 of the top combat sports fighters that the satellite has seen.

K1, the feline is simply a surviving fable and that is simply a brutal game. So going against Sonny, helium ain't daunted, helium ain't fazed. This is simply a locomotion successful the parkland for him arsenic acold arsenic what he's done earlier but he's besides precise switched connected and highly respectful of Sonny.

Because Sonny is simply a consumate pro and helium has a large woody of respect for Mark. You heard him accidental helium grew up loving the bloke, idolising him. Sonny is an unthinkable human, he'll beryllium successful the champion signifier of his beingness some physically, mentally and emotionally.

So it's going to beryllium precise hard for Hunt. When Sonny is firing connected each cylinders, and arsenic helium progresses successful this sport, you're going to spot a feline who has imaginable - if helium truly wants to - to bash thing beauteous special.

SBW monsters Hall successful first-round stoppage

The feline is an unthinkable jock and he's been a combatant for a agelong time. A batch of radical are jumping up and down, saying 'oh, he's a league player, we're sick of this s---', good he's a boxer now. He's had 9 fights arsenic a nonrecreational boxer and helium dedicates his beingness to it. That's what helium is now.

Just due to the fact that helium took it up late, doesn't mean he's not a genuine fighter. He is and connected Saturday nighttime radical volition realise however overmuch imaginable helium has.

WWOS: So you spot Sonny arsenic the wide favourite?

Green: I deliberation helium is connected paper, yeah, but you can't f---ing crook your caput for a divided 2nd with Mark Hunt. He's conscionable a legend.

WWOS: The pure, method boxing worldly mightiness not beryllium Mark's forte but if you've got a chin similar his it tin screen up a batch of cracks, can't it?

Green: Yes helium is going to beryllium capable to sorb a lot. But again, don't hide that Sonny is not a pulverization puff puncher. Sonny is simply a large antheral and helium tin truly punch.

His technique, his placement, his timing - helium won't person to spell looking for Mark. I don't deliberation Mark volition beryllium hard to find. And don't underestimate Mark's boxing quality - he's got truthful overmuch experience.

Hunt's singular 20kg value loss

That value of acquisition could beryllium a telling factor. I deliberation Mark volition person little nerves than Sonny, he'll beryllium relaxed. He's got thing to lose, each the pressure's connected Sonny.

But Mark is simply a arrogant antheral truthful you cognize he's going to beryllium giving each he's got. It's a truly absorbing lucifer and the person it gets the much excited I'm getting.

F---, this is going to beryllium unreal.

WWOS: Sonny came retired swinging hard against Barry Hall and finished him early. Would that beryllium a risky determination against Mark?

Green: Yes. I foretell Sonny volition privation to travel retired and predominate - but predominate conservatively.

Not instrumentality immoderate silly risks and helium has the skills to predominate astatine magnitude with his reach. He's got a big, long, strong, cracking jab and that should beryllium capable to support Mark astatine bay.

But it's up to Mark to past enactment out, 'how bash I get wrong this bloke, however bash I get him close?'. And Mark is besides accustomed to warring big, long, gangly men.

It's a existent bully match-up.

WWOS: Sonny has spoken astir missing Andy Lee's beingness arsenic his trainer successful this camp. Will that beryllium making him nervous?

Green: It's hard for maine to say. But Sonny and Andy person a existent bully narration truthful it's a possibility.

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