By Scott Gilfoid: Former super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler (44-2, 33 KO’s) has decided to give up on the idea of going after the WBO super middleweight title belt held by a vulnerable Robert Stieglitz and instead will seek out an arguably easier option of moving up to the light heavyweight division to take on fringe contender Allan Green (31-3, 21 KO’s) on May 19th at the Parken, in Copenhagen, Denmark.

This could be more of a dangerous fight for Kessler than the Stieglitz fight would have been, because Green isn’t weight drained at this weight like he was at 168 in his two poor showings in the tourney against first Andre Ward and then second Glen Johnson. Green just didn’t have the energy to fight either guy well because of how much water weight he had to take off to try and get to the 168 pound limit.

You could see at the weigh-in for both fights how weight drained Green was because he looked skeletal the day of the weigh-in, like he’d been on a crash diet and he still looked painfully thin on the night of both fights. Since moving up to the light heavyweight division with 175, Green has looked a lot better, a lot stronger and a lot healthier. An in shape Green is a dangerous one for Kessler. Green easily defeated the two opponents at light heavyweight in wins over Craig Gandy and Sebastian Demers.

Kessler has problems against fighters with good hand speed and power. We saw that in Kessler’s losses to Ward and Joe Calzaghe. Green has hand speed just as good as those guys, but with better power. He’s someone that can really put it on Kessler and take advantage of all the ring rust that Kessler. Green is the much more active fighter of the two with Kessler having fought only twice since being dominated by Ward in November 2009.