By Dan Ambrose: The choice of picking 41-year-old light heavyweight Glen Johnson (50-14-2, 34 KO’s) to square off with Allan Green (29-2, 20 KO’s) in the 3rd stage of the Super Six tournament is going to be a bad one, as far as I can tell. Picking a fighter as old and as big as Johnson to replace WBC super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler strikes me as both short sighted and desperate. Clearly, Showtime chose Johnson because he was better known than some of the other options that they could have selected due to Johnson’s fights against Chad Dawson.

However, Johnson hasn’t fought at 168 for 10 long years, and he’s now having problems just making the 175 pound limit. He made the weight in his last fight against International Boxing Federation light heavyweight champion Tavoris Cloud in August, but Johnson immediately went up to 190 after the weigh-in and looked terrible throughout the fight with his lack of power.

Rather than fighting at super middleweight, which I see as impossible for Johnson, he needs to move up in weight to cruiserweight and finish out his career up there. He can no longer win a title at light heavyweight and I don’t see him doing anything in the Super Six tournament. Johnson needs a knockout of Green to have a chance at making it to the semifinals, but there’s no way a weight drained Johnson will knock out Green.

That’s not going to happen. Green has a good chin and those slapping shots that Johnson was landing in the Cloud fight won’t bother Green one bit. It may annoy him, but it won’t stop him. Most likely, Johnson may win a decision if he can outwork Green, but it will be sloppy, ugly, boring and not the outcome that he needs. Showtime might not care, since all they did in choosing Johnson was find someone that really has very little chance of making it into the semifinals.

I suppose it could have been anyone that took Kessler’s place, but with Johnson, Showtime has picked and old war horse who has name value for some casual boxing fans. Still, it seems like a bad pick because Johnson will likely balloon up to 190 after melting down to 168, and will be weak and look horrible.

Green also will probably be weight drained and we could have to weak weight drained fighters pawing at each other and throwing slapping punches all night long.