knockout. Following the win, "Green immediately challenged IBO light-heavyweight champion Antonio Tarver to put his belt on the line in WA" when he said to the crowd: "Antonio Tarver, here in Perth, Subiaco Oval, 25,000 people – you want to do it Perth?" Green versus Drews On 16 December 2007 Green took on the WBA light-heavyweight champion, Croatian, Stipe Drews at the Challenge Stadium in Perth. Having "prodigious reach", being tall, and "having lost only one of 33 fights before winning the title against Italian Silvio Branco in April", Drews was considered one of the most awkward boxers in the world. Green provided a consistently attacking performance and won the bout in a unanimous points decision. The win secured Green the WBA light-heavyweight crown (his second world title) and he celebrated by running into the crowd to embrace his wife (who had been due to give birth to their second child the day before the bout). Retirement and return On 25 March 2008 Green held a press conference in Perth to announce his retirement from boxing. The announcement was made a month away from a planned WBA light-heavyweight title defence against Argentina's Hugo Garay. Green described his decision to hang up his gloves as being like "a premonition, an epiphany", and stated that he struggled with the decision, believing "I am at the top of my game and the peak of my career." Green stated that there was nothing physically wrong with himself, and added "I leave with my dignity and health intact." Anthony Mundine responded to the announcement by saying "It's a smart move on his behalf ... he was a good fighter and a busy fighter but he wasn't a great fighter", and "For me, he is running from the inevitable and it is good that he decided to get out now because he was going to get a whipping again." During 2008 Green appeared in all ten episodes of the Australian television show Dancing with the Stars (season 8). Green and his dancing partner Natalie Lowe were runners-up after they were defeated by Luke Jacobz and Luda Kroitor in the grand final. Green stated that "he'd had a ball on the show" and said about Jacobz: "I would rather be punching him than dancing against him!" Green's retirement from boxing ended when he met South African Anthony van Niekerk in Perth for a light-heavyweight bout on 26