By Jason Kim: Once beaten super middleweight contender Allan Green (28-1, 20 KOs) is highly interested in facing International Boxing Federation light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson after recently hearing that Dawson was planning on moving down in weight to the super middleweight division in pursuit of bigger fights and better opponents.
Green, 29, who has been on a four-fight winning streak since being schooled by Edison Miranda in a lopsided 10-round unanimous decision loss in March 2007, is looking at a named opponent to raise his stature in the division. However, instead of going after Dawson, Green might help himself a little more if he tried to take of unfinished business with first before Green begins to look elsewhere and target better fighters like Dawson.
Green has fought no one spectacular since the Dawson defeat, beating the likes of Carl Daniels, Darrell Woods, Shermin Davis, Ruben Williams and most recently Carlos De Leon Jr. Granted, Green has looked good in beating them, knowing all of them out except for Williams.
However, none of them are fighters that are truly world class at this point and nothing close to what Green would be getting his hands into if he were to fight Dawson. Green had his chance against Miranda and looked bad against him, fighting passively and looking as if Green was afraid of being knocked out by Miranda.
In the 10th round, Miranda hurt Green and knocked him down twice in the round. Had the fight lasted another round, many people feel that Green would have been knocked out by Miranda. That is not a good thing, since Miranda has been beaten numerous times since that fight, losing to Kelly Pavlik, Arthur Abraham and Andre Ward. Green looked out of his league with Miranda and awed by him for some reason.
I doubt that Dawson would want to fight Green given Allan’s lack of quality opponents since the loss to Miranda. I could understand the interest in fighting Green if he had been busy fighting quality fighters like Jermain Taylor, Carl Froch, Andre Dirrell, Ward, Lucian Bute, or Mikkel Kessler, but he hasn’t.
Green seems to think that Kessler, Froch and Taylor won’t be available for the rest of the year. That may or may not be. However, Dawson would still be better off facing someone like Librado Andrade, a pressure fighter known for his tough 12-round fight with Bute last year.
If Dawson could get a fight with Andrade that would be a fight quite interesting to watch for boxing fans, because Andrade brings it to the table every time he fights and is looking to try and take his opponent’s head off with every shot. I can’t say the same thing for Green judging by his defeat at the hands of Miranda.
Green looks good at times, but the opponents that he has been beating leave a lot to be desired and prove little. Frankly, I think Dawson would be a bad choice for Green, because he’s faster, bigger, stronger and hits harder than Green. Dawson is coming off of back to back one-sided defeats of Antonio Tarver.
Dawson easily beat Tarver by a lopsided decision in October 2008, and then beat him almost as easy in their needless rematch this month.
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