By Eric Thomas: Despite suffering a humiliating one-sided 12 round unanimous decision loss to Andre Ward in June and then seeing his next opponent Mikkel Kessler drop out of the Super Six tournament because of an eye injury, the 30-year-old Green still wants to stay in the tourney and fight on. That’s not likely going to happen, as the word is that there won’t be a replacement for Kessler and that Green will be dropped from the tourney for lack of an opponent. Green is supposed to be given a fight on Showtime outside of the tournament instead. In an article at Boxingtalk.com, Green says “I still want to fight for that belt [the WBC super middleweight title]. I just want what Andre Dirrell and Mikkel Kessler had; the chance to redeem myself in this tournament and advance to the semi-finals.”

The chances of that happening are probably not good unless Showtime can come up with a replacement or some other way of satisfying Green. I suppose they could have Green fight the winner of either Dirrell-Ward or Arthur Abraham vs. Carl Froch, but that wouldn’t be fair because one of those fighters would have to be taking an extra fight that the other one didn’t have to take. Green probably isn’t too happy with his one fight in the Super Six tournament being the one against Ward, because he looked horrible in that bout and didn’t make a good showing of himself.

He looked weight drained going in, but when he tried to talk about that after the fight, boxing fans saw it as Green making an excuse. But Green really did look weight drained. His face was thin and didn’t look well. He needed to take the weight off in the months before the Super Six tournament started not at the last moment through draining himself of water, and muscle weight.

It would be great if Showtime could showcase a Green fight against someone good like Sakio Bika, John Paul Mendy or Edison Miranda. However, I’m not counting on Green being matched up with someone too good. It’s probably going to be a B level fighter that has some name value but not necessarily a top tier fighter.