Photo credit: Tom Casino/Showtime – By Dan Amrbose: Allan Green (29-1, 20 KO’s) has a lot of notes on WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward (21-0, 13 KO’s), says Kevin Iole of Yahoo Sports News. The notes list the weaknesses and tendencies of Ward, who Green will be fighting this Saturday night at the Oracle Arena, in Oakland, California. However, you have to wonder whether it will even matter how many notes Green has collected on Ward. It’s good that Green has put together some notes on the weaknesses of Ward, but if his own weaknesses, which are many, are even more glaring than Ward, then how is Green going to be able to capitalize and take advantage of Ward’s flaws?

Apparently, Green collects a lot of information on a lot of fighters that he could be fighting someday. But you would hope that Green has enough talent to be able to take those notes and actually do something with them rather than just reading them without being able to put in action what his plans to defeat them.

Green thinks that he should have been the one that was originally chosen by Showtime when the Super Six tournament first started instead of Jermain Taylor. But you can understand why Taylor was chosen, because he after all was the best middleweight in the world up until he was stopped by Kelly Pavlik in September 2007. Green, in contrast, has been spinning his wheels stuck on fighting mostly 2nd tier opposition and not moving forward with his career like Taylor did.

After Taylor was badly knocked out by Arthur Abraham last October, it led to Taylor pulling out of the tournament. Green then was selected to replace him. Green will get a chance to prove that he belongs in the Super Six tournament against Ward. If he can’t beat Ward, then all Green’s talk about how he should have been chosen for the Super Six tourney from the beginning will be pretty much meaningless. Green has to win the Ward fight, because he needs the points to get to the semi finals.

Green still won’t be guaranteed a spot in the semi finals even if he beats Ward. Green will have to beat his next opponent Mikkel Kessler to make it to the next level. Beating either Ward or Kessler will be a very tough task for Green, because he’s never proven in the past that he’s capable of beating anyone close to the level of Ward and Kessler. This is the problem with Green. He’s been kept in safe fights for too long to the point where people don’t know what he’s capable of doing against top level opposition.