By Jim Dower: With WBC super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler pulling out of the Super Six tournament today due to a serious eye injury, his opponent previously planned opponent for September 25th Allan Green (29-2, 20 KO’s) is looking like he’s gone as well from the tournament. The 30-year-old Green’s promoter Lou Dibella had this to say about Green’s future in a press release sent out today to boxing sites: “In the coming days we will sit down with Ken Hershman [ the senior vice president of Showtime] to discuss Allan’s future. We trust that Showtime will provide Allan with the opportunity to showcase his skills in a meaningful fight versus a world class opponent in the very near future.”

This isn’t likely going to be within the Super Six tournament if Green does continue to fight with Showtime, because finding a replacement for Kessler would likely prove difficult at this point and neither Green nor Kessler were expected to make it through the semifinals of the tournament. Green wasn’t even expected to make it to the semifinals, so it might be a good thing that Kessler pulled out with the injury when he did. Green already was totally dominated in the worst possible way by Andre Ward in Green’s first fight in the tournament and the chances were high that Green would have suffered a similar fate in his fight with Kessler.

At least now Green can go back to fighting B level fighters and looking good against them, if that’s what Dibella is planning on doing with him. I just don’t think Green would do well if Hershman decided to find him a live body to put him in with outside of the Super Six tournament. Green has a lot of flaws that need to be corrected from his last fight with Ward, and it’s not likely that Green, at his age, can fix all of those glaring flaws in such a short period of time.

If Green does end up going from the Super Six tournament, that will presumably leave only four fighters – Carl Froch, Arthur Abraham, Andre Dirrell and Andre Ward – to carry on in what would then be an early start to the semifinals. Froch is scheduled to face Abraham on October 2nd in Monaco, whereas Dirrell and Ward are scheduled to fight on September 25th at a still to be determined location. However, there’s speculation that fight may not come off at all unless the two sides can agree on a neutral venue.

Right now, there’s a stalemate between them, as Ward and his promoter wants the fight to take place in Oakland, California, and Dirrell and his team want the fight to happen in Detroit, Michigan. With Ward having already fought both of his Super Six tournament fights at home in Oakland, it’s not surprising that Dirrell doesn’t want to have to travel there and fight in front of over 10,000 Ward fans. Dirrell has fought once at home and another time away.