By Eric Thomas: If American Allan Green (29-2, 20 KO’s) already didn’t have enough trouble coming off of a one-sided 12 round decision loss to WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward last month on June 19th in his first fight in the Super Six tournament.

Now its looking like the 30-year-old Green will be fighting WBC super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler (43-2, 32 KO’s) in Denmark rather than the United States in the stage 3 part of the Super Six tourney.

This will be Green’s last shot at trying to stay alive in the tournament. He badly needs a win, preferably a knockout win so that he can collect three points that almost surely get him into the semi finals.

Greg Leon, the manager for Green, said this to TV2 Sport: “We have no trouble fighting against Mr. Kessler in Denmark. We’re just aout to close the contract before then. We’re having comfortable and progressive discussions.”

The fight could take place on September 25th. There is speculation that Green is fighting in Denmark because Kalle Sauerland, the promoter for Kessler, paid Green more money to have the fight take place there rather than the United States.

Since Green isn’t a huge star yet and not making the big money as of now, it’s plausible that he’s agreed to fight in Denmark for the bigger payday. If so, you can’t blame him because he has his work cut out for him whether the fight takes place in he U.S. or Denmark, so why not take the bigger money?

Kessler is coming off of a close 12 round unanimous decision win in his last fight against Carl Froch in April. It was a good win for Kessler, who needed the victory to make up for an earlier loss to Andre Ward in his first fight in he Super Six tournament last year in October.

Unlike his fight against Ward, where Kessler looked confused and unable to land his shots, Kessler connected at a high percentage against the slow moving Froch. Kessler was really helped by the fact that Froch, like always, kept his hands down by his waist while he fought and was open much of the time for any shot that Kessler would throw at him.

Froch would try to lean back or put his hands up at the last second, but his reaction time was frequently much too slow to keep from getting tagged by Kessler.

Green looked awful in his loss to Ward, spending much of the time with his back to the ropes trying to fruitlessly fight at close range against the much superior Ward. Green, a good fighter when he’s able to fight at a slow pace on the outside, looked clueless and unprepared in fighting on the inside against Ward.

But what made matters even worse for Green is that he didn’t show any effort and making changes to his tactics. Normally, a fighter who is getting pummeled on the ropes, will make a point of staying away from that area to avoid problems.

However, Green allowed himself to be pushed to the ropes almost every round and would stay there for prolonged periods of time taking shots and wrestling with Ward.