By Allan Fox: Former super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler (44-2, 33 KO’s) could be moving up in weight to the light heavyweight division for his next fight against American and former Super Six tournament contestant Allan Green (31-3, 21 KO’s) on May 19th at the Parken, Copenhagen, Denmark. According to Danish news site Nordjyske.dk, Kessler is ready to move up in weight to take this fight.

It’s an unusual move but one that’s very telling as it suggests that Kessler may not like his chances in the stacked super middleweight division which is loaded with talented fighters. The light heavyweight division only has a handful of good fighters and you’ve got several champions that are very beatable at this point. Even a depleted Kessler would have a chance of picking up a belt and milking it for a couple of years or more with soft matchmaking.

Kessler’s promoter Kallie Sauerland told Nordjyske.dk “He [Kessler] should have met Green in the Super Six tournament, but when Mikkel was injured, the fight never took place. So now we hope that it can be something. That we will find out within the next 24 hours.”

This is pretty awful fight if you ask me. Although Kessler WAS supposed to fight Green in the Super Six tournament in 2010, but the fight was canceled after Kessler pulled out of the tournament due to an eye injury. Green was badly exposed in the Super Six tournament, losing to Andre Ward by a lopsided 12 round unanimous decision in June 2010, and then getting stopped by 42-year-old Glen Johnson in the 8th round in November 2010. Kessler can do a lot better than this.

Green, #15 IBF, has won his last two fights since moving up in weight to the light heavyweight division, beating Craig Gandy (7-4-1) and Sebastien Demers (31-4). Kessler will easily beat Green unless he gets hit with something big. It’s a good move for Kessler to jump up a weight division, because he will have problems at 168 against all the talented fighters at that weight. but I think Green isn’t a good choice for Kessler. He could do better than this.