By Allan Fox: 33-year-old former Super Six tournament contestant Allan Green (31-4, 21 KO’s) will be facing #13 WBC super middleweight contender Renan St Juste (23-3-1, 15 KO’s) in a scheduled 10 round bout at light heavyweight on the Lucian Bute vs. Denis Grachev card on November 3rd at the Bell Centre, in Montreal, Canada. This is really a do or die type fight for both Green and the 40-year-old St Juste.

Green’s once promising career has been nosediving downward since he was soundly beaten by WBA Super World middleweight champion Andre Ward by a 12 round unanimous decision two years ago in June 2010 in the Super Six tournament. Green attributed his loss to being weight drained and it sounded like a reasonable excuse at the time with him looking terribly weight-drained with his efforts to make the 168 lb super middleweight limit. Green followed that loss with an 8th round TKO defeat at the hands of 42-year-old Glen Johnson in the Super Six tourney.

Once the tourney was over, Green picked up a couple of easy wins over Craig Gandy and Sebastian Demers. However, in his last fight he was wiped out by Mikkel Kessler by a 4th round knockout in a fight for the vacant WBC Silver light heavyweight title last May. Green knocked Kessler down in the 1st round, but stopped punching after that was dominated until being knocked cold by Kessler in the 4th. Green couldn’t use weight as an excuse for this loss because the fight took place at light heavyweight. He was simply beaten by the better fighter.

St Juste, a hard hitting super middleweight contender, was stopped in his last fight by Anthony Dirrell in a 4th round TKO last year in December. St. Juste’s left shoulder came out of the socket in the 4th and the fight needed to be halted. That was an important fight for St Juste because it would have put him in position to get a title shot against Ward.

If St Juste’s shoulder can stay together against Green next month then you got to give him an excellent chance of beating Green. St Juste has the power and the southpaw stance to give Green a lot of problems if he’s able to land his shots. Green also has a lot of power, but he tends to hold it in reserve a lot more than St Juste, perhaps fearing running out of gas. If St Juste is allowed to tee off with his power shots early on, Green won’t last very long. St Juste hits too hard and Green’s chin is too fragile.