Photo credit: Tom Casino/Showtime – By Jason Kim: At today’s weigh-in for the Super Six stage 2 clash between Allan Green (29-1, 20 KO’s) and World Boxing Association super middleweight champion Andre Ward (21-0, 13 KO’s) for Saturday’s fight in Oakland, California, the 30-year-old Green weighed in at skinny looking 166 pounds. Ward, 26, came in at a solid looking 167 3/4. Green looked badly weight drained and dehydrated from the effects of making weight. You have to wonder what he’ll have left by fight time on Saturday night.

Green looked positively scrawny looking. As it is, Green has a huge task in front of him in trying to step up and beat Ward, who is now may be the fighter to beat in the Super Six tournament. Green is a replacement for Jermain Taylor, and will be fighting for the first time in the tournament tomorrow night. Green has been saying he should have been picked for the tournament from the very beginning instead of Taylor.

Green will get a chance to prove whether he should have been picked on Saturday. My guess is Showtime made the right choice by selecting Taylor for the tournament rather than Green. It’s unfortunate that Taylor had the bad luck of facing the biggest puncher in the Super Six tournament first in Arthur Abraham. Had he fought someone like Andre Dirrell or Mikkel Kessler first, Taylor would have likely had a good chance of getting through those fights without being knocked out.

Looking at how skinny Green looked at the weigh-in, I think he’s going to have huge problems with the youth, the strength and the energy of Ward. Green might have overdid it during training for the tourney or else he didn’t take off enough weight and was forced to take off a massive amount of water weight to make the 168 pound weight limit. I think it’s more of a case of Green going overboard while training, knowing that this is a make it or break fight for him. Green can’t afford to lose this fight if he wants to make it into the semi finals of the tourney. Green has zero points inherited from Taylor and absolutely is in a must win situation for him to be able to make it to the next level.

Ward is coming off an impressive 11 round technical decision victory over Kessler in his first fight of the Super Six tournament. Ward opened up a lot of eyes with that win and he could be on his way to becoming a mega star if he can win the Super Six tournament.