By Matt Stein: Super middleweight contender Allan Green (29-1, 20 KO’s) thinks he knows WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward’s style of fighting really well and is feeling really good about his chances at beating the 26-year-old Green on June 19th at the Oracle Arena, in Oakland, California. In the latest episode of Showtime’s Fight Camp 360, the 30-year-old Green had this to say about Ward: “I’ll fight him at his church. I’ll fight him behind K-mart. That’s no disrespect to Andre. That’s me telling you how bad I want this fight. I know for a fact I’ll blow him [Ward] out of the water. His whole game, whole style of fighting, I know everything about it…There is no one in the [Super Six] tournament can beat me, nobody.”

As usual, Green is sounding like his ultra confident self. When he talks, he sounds like the greatest fighter that has ever breathed. Too bad I haven’t seen the ability from him that matches his talk. I’m really hoping he proves himself in his next fight against Ward, because I want their June 19th fight to be competitive and not a hopeless blowout like a lot of people think it might be.

Green has the power, but not the experience as he comes into this fight against the younger Ward. Before Ward took part in the Super Six tournament, there was talk of him taking his time too much with getting his career in gear after winning a Gold Medal in the 2004 Olympics. It wasn’t that Ward wasn’t staying active and fighting a lot as he started out, it was the quality of his opposition.

Ward didn’t step it up until last year in 2009, five years after turning pro. For some fighters that might not be so much a problem because many of the need more fights to get enough skills to compete well against the top fighters. But Ward came into the pro ranks with a better set of skills than most fighters, and this is why he took some flack about that.

However, Green has done far less than Ward with his career until now. Green has been fighting as a pro for eight long years and the only remotely top level fighter that he’s fought during that time was a fight with Edison Miranda in 2007. Green lost that fight by a 10 round decision and has been pretty much back to taking the slow approach with his career since then, fighting six 2nd tier opponents going into his fight with Ward.

This is why it’s hard to take anything Green says really serious because he just doesn’t have the track record of having proven what he says in the ring against level one opposition. I would take everything Green says as gospel if he was actually beating top level fighters, but thus far he’s not. All I can really think is that Green is probably going to get mowed down or at the very least totally dominated like he was against Miranda in 2007.