Danny Green takes on Shane Cameron for the IBO cruiserweight title. But the talk of retirement isn't like to go away after Green seconded the microphone and individually thanked every member of his entourage, as well as paying tribute to his family. "Do you know how hard that was? Australia I love all of you so much," Green said. "I really do carry on and I'm a bit embarrassed. But I'm just so happy, I've been through some tough times and I've been knocked out. "My brother BG (Brendan) flew in and gave me such great strength and then my wife and kids flew in. To win in such a sport loving town [Melbourne] means so much to me."

The younger Cameron dropped a significant amount of weight to make his 88.5-kilogram weigh-in mark for tonight's fight but it was Green who packed the most power and landed the most punches throughout. At times during the last three rounds, it looked as if Green would send Cameron to the canvas once and for all. That never eventuated but no-one in Hisense Arena - or at home - would have doubted that 39-year-old Green was well ahead on all three scorecards. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 11pm: A delighted Danny Green fan celebrates the victory.

10.53pm: Green again dodges the retirement talk and says of the future only that he will "do the Aussie thing and get on the cans". He's 39, presumably well-enough off that he doesn't need to fight again and has a lovely young family. Do you want to see him in the ring again or do you think he should give it away? 10.43pm: The scores are 119-109, 116-112 and 116-113 on the judges' cards and Danny Green is the new IBO world cruiserweight champion. Land Down Under gets a second run on the loudspeakers. 10.41pm: Danny Green not only survives the final round but tags Shane Cameron several times and looked to only need another couple more shots to knock the Kiwi out. It doesn't matter ultimately - the 12 rounds are done and Green has a fourth world title. But will that be the last we see of the Green Machine in the ring?

10.40pm: Daniel Sankey reports: Bob from Werribee says Danny Green just needs to stay on his feet to win. I have more faith in The Green Machine achieving that feat than poor old Bob, who is officially tonight's no.1 customer for Bundy Rum. 10.36pm: Action-packed round 11 and this is Green's for the taking. He landed the best shots on Cameron in that round - culminating in a weird wrestling situation in which Cameron got thrown on the canvas in a move straight out of WWE. Cameron needs a knockout in the last round to win this one. Green might just knock him out to put an exclamation mark on this performance. 10.31pm: Two more rounds to go and Danny Green just has to stay on his feet, you'd think, to win a fourth world title. I know we said this last November against Wlodardczyk but it seems a more realistic prospect this time round... 10.26pm: Not again! Ninth round and Danny Green's mouthguard pops out a second time. He almost showed some pretty good reactions by catching it in his glove. Green has to be ahead on the cards at the moment. Cameron's looking worse for wear and he's walked into a few Green jabs. Nearly some to-do at the end of that round just then... 10.20pm: Seventh round was a belter. Danny Green copped a shoulder to the face that sent his mouthguard into orbit, then went on the offensive and rattled Cameron with a right jab. But the ref stopped the fight at that point to put Green's mouthpiece back in and the momentum was lost.

10.19pm: Daniel Sankey reports: We're split in the stands as to who's winning. Danny Green? Shane Cameron? Or the Melbourne Storm jumper-wearing bloke who fell down the stairs at the end of the 6th round ... But SOMEHOW didn't spill his beer!!! No decision in the fight, but if I have to make a call ... Storm dude is ahead on pints. I mean, points. 10.17pm: Stathi Paxinos reports: Crowd getting frustrated with the amount of holding and wrestling going on. 10.15pm: End of the sixth round and it's an arm-wrestle - or at least a wrestle. Less boxing happening than grappling but Green's probably had the best of the actual punching stuff...

10.09pm: Round four probably belongs to Green. He had Cameron up against the ropes and landed some really solid body shots. The debate now is what happens if this goes beyond six or seven rounds - who has the legs? Green, at something like his natural weight? Or Cameron, who has lost weight? 10.03pm: Bell sounds to end round three and you get the idea both of these guys are still sounding each other out. A straight left jab from Cameron has a bit more blood coming from Danny Green's schnozz. Honours even I'd say... 10pm: End of round two and Shane Cameron is quite badly cut above his eyebrow. Barry Michael says it's an old cut and it has been opened up by a head clash. Still going to make life difficult for the Kiwi. 9.59pm: Stathi Paxinos reports: This would be a full circle for me if this is Green's final fight tonight. I covered the boxing at the Sydney OIympic Games as a young reporter when Green was just beginning his amateur career. Been a great career. But let's hope that it has not run that one fight or so too long.

9.56pm: Simon White reports: Interesting first round, Green with a bit of claret from the snout, Cameron opting to stand at the end of the round other than take a seat. Bit of mental byplay already. 9.52pm: Well, the money seems to have come late for Green. He'll start a $1.70 favourite with TAB Sportsbet; Cameron is $2.10. 9.48pm: Question - does Australia have the shortest national anthem in the world? The New Zealand one just then seemed to go forever. Very nicely sung though...Advance Australia Affair is now out of the way too and we can get down to the real business of the evening. Ding, ding ding! 9.43pm: And here comes Danny Green. The traditional Land Down Under theme. Will this be the last time he enters a ring to those sounds?

9.41pm: Shane Cameron enters the ring to the sounds of Kenny Rogers' The Gambler. Shame, I really thought he might have cracked out a bit of Slice of Heaven by fellow Kiwi Dave Dobbyn. Looking at the pic below, Cameron doesn't look unlike a slightly more crazed version of Dobbyn. 9.35pm: Simon White reports: Well that's the undercard over and done with and on to the main event. Shane Cameron is seeking to be the first NZ-born world champion since Torpedo Billy Murphy in the early 1900s. Danny Green is chasing a fourth world title, perhaps to take him into retirement. Green's fighting at something like his natural weight, Cameron's wasted and lived on grilled chicken to get down to the 88.5kg he weighed in at yesterday. Interesting to see him saying today he would be up around the 92kg-mark for tonight's fight. 9.27pm: A quite strange ending to a frankly quite odd fight as Berry loses a second point for holding, then hops up on the ropes as if he had won. He hadn't, losing 120-105, 119-106 and 120-108 on the three scorecards. "Wild" Will Tomlinson retains his IBO superfeatherweight title and ends up with another bit of scar tissue above the left eye. The Victorian apologises to the crowd for what he said wasn't the "most entertaining" fight. Tomlinson says his immediate plans are a few beers at home and a normal life through Christmas, then a trip overseas in search of more world title glory.

9.21pm: Daniel Sankey reports from Hisense: decided to risk the beer queue. Probably not the best idea. I thought I'd be okay, though, because my girlfriend came with me. That means four beer each, which gets us through the rest of the fight night, right? Wrong. Announcer just said Brad Pitt was fighting ... So girlfriend just squealed in delight and ran back inside, saying no amount of alcohol would be worth missing the chance to see Brad Pitt (a) with his shirt off and (b) in a real life Fight Club. I did my best to shout out and tell her that it might be a different guy ... I really did! Actually, I didn't. Queue now down to ... 482 dudes. 9.17pm: I still don't get this. Berry apparently speaks no English but tried to trash talk Tomlinson as he passed him at the end of the 10th round. Barry Michael astutely described the fight during that round as "a mugging" = a feeling compounded when Berry tried the old "back of the head" punch on Tomlinson. 9.14pm: Daniel Sankey reports from Hisense: Tomlinson's entrance music should've been Scar Tissue by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, given how prone his face is to generating some claret

9.10pm: Jury still out on exactly how much English Berry understands but you sense he knew what was going on then when the referee just marched him round the ring, announcing he was deducting a point for holding. The eighth round ended in a familiar spot for Berry - on the canvas having fallen in a wrestling exchange. 9.05pm: Stathi Paxinos reports from Hisense: Love the wave-in action Berry is giving Tomlinson but he is losing some credibility with the amount of time he is spending on the canvas - albeit from pushes. 9.02pm Simon White reports: He might not be the superior fighter Berry but he's got a bit of showman in him - waving Tomlinson to "have a go" while he is backed up on the ropes. Tomlinson's biggest danger might be the cut that's opened up above his left eye. Apparently it's an old one but it has clearly been aggravated by a head clash.

8.57pm: This fight for the IBO superfeatherweight title has resembled a rolling maul at times but Tomlinson clearly has the more polish. We're four rounds down and as much as he might shake his head to indicate Tomlinson's shots aren't hurting, Berry has to be feeling some of these. Classic conversation - if you can call it that - between Berry and the referee which started with the words "I know you can't speak English, but..." 8.50pm: Stathi's right. Definitely no easy match-up Berry. He's mixing stances between southpaw and his natural stance but Tomlinson just caught him with a nice left that had Berry down on the canvas and the referee applying a count. Berry tried to say it was a slip but had no luck with that argument. 8.49pm: Stathi Paxinos reports from Hisense: Tomlinson promised to maintain an all-action style but Berry's craftiness is not making it easy for him. Relatively sedate opening two rounds. It's amazing how quickly the vibe in a boxing crowd falls flat. 8.40pm Simon White reports: "Wild" Will Tomlinson has entered the ring to fight Panamanian Irving Berry. This will be our last undercard fight before the Danny Green-Shane Cameron bout and it promises to have plenty of action. I saw Tomlinson fight on the Green-Wlodardzyk undercard late last year and he's a real goer. Stathi Paxinos says he got a fair ovation in Hisense Arena tonight.

8.35pm: Stathi Paxinos reports from Hisense: Wonder how much they have charged for the tables down by ringside? I can guess the answer would explain why most of us journos are in the nose bleed section. 8.34pm: Well we warned you Jeremy Van Diemen was a pretty scary looking customer. That's him on the left below, after winning tonight's second undercard bout. 8.25pm: Our second The Age correspondent Stathi Paxinos has just joined the coverage. Said he could remember seeing Brad Pitt fight as an amateur and predicted he'd take care of Sorovi. He got that in to me about 30 seconds before Sorovi capitulated. I swear!

8.23pm: Damn, maybe it's too late to bring you those pictures. Pitt unloaded on Sorovi on the ropes and the referee had to call it off. A big right did the real damage and Sorovi was basically out on his feet. Nice bit of comedy afterwards with a ringside medical officer asking Sorovi what day it was - he answered "Wednesday night" with a smile. 8.21pm: I'll bring you some pictures as soon as they come to hand but this really is a bizarre mismatch of bodies between Pitt and Sorovi. Pitt tall and fit, Sorovi short and...um...not so fit? He's plenty aggressive though Sorovi and gave Pitt something to think about in the first round. 8.20pm: Daniel Sankey reports from Hisense: A few "What the hell just happened?"s after the corner of Lyndon Edney just threw in the towel. Apparently, the crowd was too busy looking at Billy Brownless as he made his way to his ringside table, ordered a keg of Carlton Draught and asked where the Four 'n' Twenty guy was. Guess he's passing on the four course corporate menu. Back to the fight, and probably have to give Lyndon Edney's corner some credit ... He WAS fighting a guy called War Machine. Surprised the towel didn't come out sooner... 8.15pm: Ladies, get ready, Brad Pitt is about to fight. Well maybe not THE Brad Pitt but the boxer from Blairgowrie in Victoria. And yep, he calls himself Hollywood. He might actually be as accommodating as THE Brad Pitt though. Just like the actor allowed Angelina Jolie to adopt all those babies, the boxing Pitt has allowed his opponent Mosese Sorovi to fight 2kg heavier than the original catchweight.

8.10pm: Backstage interview with Danny Green. Had to laugh there when the Green Machine promised to bring out every media cliche in the book. Needless to say "all the hard work has been done" and Danny is hoping to deliver a result that thrills Aussies and annoys Kiwis. 8.05pm: Two more undercard bouts before the big one. Interesting to look back to a little more than 18 months ago, when Green said a fight against Cameron would be a foregone conclusion. The betting says anything but that at the moment. TAB Sportsbet now has Green at $1.80 and Cameron at $1.95. If the money keeps coming like that, there may not be a clear favourite come fight time. 8pm: Simon White reports: Well, the War Machine made pretty light work of Edney there. Van Diemen was going hell for leather from the outset and Edney's corner threw in the towel during the third round. 7.50pm: Daniel Sankey reports from Hisense: For those old school fight fans who miss a good auction in between fights at their local RSL - we've just had an auction. Seriously? A lovely pair of boxing gloves up for grabs. Apparently funds are being donated to Danny Green's retirement fund. Well, that's what the Kiwi bloke just next to me says. Fairly bullish about Shane Cameron's chances tonight are our Kiwi friends! I should know - had the "pleasure" of coming here on a tram full of Kiwi boxers who train with the Mountain Warrior. I wasn't game to challenge them. They were BIG BOYS. Really glad I didn't buy that Green Machine t-shirt the guy on the corner was offering for $20 before I jumped on the team. I would've been in trouble.

7.45pm: Jeremy "The War Machine" Van Diemen and Lyndon Edney have entered the ring for the second undercard belt. Van Diemen was rocking to the tunes of Psycho Killer - great song, not sure I'd be wanting to fight a bloke who had that as his theme music. 7.38pm: Wow, that was a great pipe-opener for the evening. Ogilvie wins 59-55 on two of the scorecards with a 55-55 scoreline on the other. General consensus in the commentary box was that it was much closer than the two cards that had Ogilvie winning. Both fighters threw some rippers in the sixth and final round and looked spent at the bell.

Daniel Sankey's view at Hisense Arena

7.31pm: Daniel Sankey reports from Hisense: Not a bad view from up in the cheap seats. And this opening encounter is a good fight! Both boys landing some leather, and the crowd - which probably seems small on TV right now, but that's only because the line-up at the bar is 200m long - is very appreciative. Now ... Any chance I can get someone to bring me back a beer? I hate queues. 7.27pm: And round four belongs to Taylor. Landed a couple of nice rights there that might have half-stunned Ogilvie. Got plenty of ink on him Taylor - couple more years and he might be matching Ogilvie's trainer! 7.23pm: Some fast and maybe not so furious action there in the third. Ogilvie had Taylor on the ropes and looked to get off a couple of big shots but the Kiwi countered and held his own. So far Ogilvie probably looks the more dangerous fighter but Taylor hasn't really looked in trouble either.

7.15pm: Interesting first round there. Taylor, a NZ amateur champ and Commonwealth Games rep, looks a decent test for Ogilvie, whose best punch so far has been a body shot that sent Taylor back-pedalling. 7.09pm: First undercard about to get underway between Perth's Brandon Ogilvie and New Zealander Anthony Taylor. Not sure too many undercard fighters get their entry music reflecting their Christian names, as Ogilvie just did. Ogilvie fought on Green's last undercard and was very impressive, albeit against an opponent who got a late call-up. Loading 7pm: Simon White reports: Good evening folks and welcome to...well, welcome to my living room in Wembley Downs in Perth for Danny Green's title fight versus Shane Cameron. Rest assured though folks, we've got our men from The Age - Stathi Paxinos and Daniel Sankey - stationed in Hisense Arena to bring us all the colour from what will hopefully be a great night of boxing.