By William Mackay: Super Six tournament contestant Allan Green (29-1, 20 KO’s) thinks that WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward (21-0, 13 KO’s) has a weak chin and he intends on taking advantage of that in their stage 2 Super Six tournament fight on June 19th at the Oracle Arena, in Oakland, California. Green, 30, says “If you really watch his [Ward] fights, he never goes blow-to-blow with another fighter. He will fight for 15-20 seconds with the jab, then he will grab, hold and push away. That’s the way he fights, and you can forget about him trying to do any inside fighting. He has a weak chin; I know it, he knows it, and everybody else knows it.”
Most boxing experts give Green very little chance at beating Ward next month. Indeed, Green is being given a puncher’s chance at winning the fight. He doesn’t hit as hard as Edison Miranda, who Ward totally dominated last year in a 12 round decision in May. What Green does have is a lot of power and excellent hand speed. He doesn’t always deliver that power because he holds back sometimes when he’s facing quality opposition. Will Green do that in this fight. It will be interesting to see. Green is in a do or die situation because he’s coming into this fight with the ‘0’ points from Jermain Taylor, who pulled out of the Super Six tournament after being stopped by Arthur Abraham in October in their stage 1 Super Six tourney fight. Green must beat Ward or else he won’t likely make it to the semi finals.
Green says he’s okay with fighting Ward in his home town, but that remains to be seen. Mikkel Kessler, who Ward dominated in his first fight of the Super Six tournament last November, looked badly intimidated by the large Oakland crowd and the noise. Ward seemed to thrive on the crowd noise and fought incredibly well, shutting Kessler out for 10 rounds until the fight was stopped in the 11th due to two cuts over Kessler’s eyes. The fight was ruled a technical decision with Ward getting the win.
Green hasn’t fought since last October, beating Tarvis Simms by a 10 round unanimous decision. Going from that fight to a bout against the lightning fast Ward is going to be a bit of shock to Green, who has faced mostly B level opposition in his career. However, despite fighting mostly B fighters, Green has done what he’s had to do against them, beating all of them and looking good in doing so. Green was beaten by Miranda, his best opponent of his career in March 2007.
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