By Jim Dower: Sporting a huge height and weight advantage over 5’9″ Renan St Juste (23-4-1, 15 KO’s), light heavyweight Allan Green (32-4, 22 KO’s) stopped the 40-year-old St Juste in a 7th round stoppage on Saturday night on the undercard of the Lucian Bute vs. Denis Grachev bout at the Bell Centre, in Montreal, Canada. The fight was halted after the 7th round, as St. Juste was bleeding badly from the nose and he had stopped punching for the most part in the last two rounds.

St Juste threw very few punches in the fight. However, when he did let his hands go in the 4th round, he put Green down after connecting with two solid left hands. Green did a good job of smothering the pot shot hitting St Juste to keep him from adding to it. In the 5th round, St Juste failed to let his hands go or put the pressure on Green that he needed to in order to finish him off. This allowed Green to use his 6’2″ height and long reach to jab the shorter St Juste to dominate him in the 6th and 7th rounds until the fight was halted after the 7th had ended. By then St Juste’s right eye was swelling up and his nose was leaking blood all over his face.

Green mostly threw jabs in the fight and showed good skills, if not a good chin. He fought a lot better than he had in defeats against Glen Johnson, Mikkel Kessler and Andre Ward.

Green had failed to make weight at Friday’s weigh-in when he came in at 178 lbs. He looked around 190 today and simply was too big for the much smaller St Juste to handle.

Overall, it was a decent performance from Green. However, it wasn’t a good sign to see Green getting knocked down yet again. He had been knocked out cold in his previous fight against Kessler last May and he was getting knocked down by a fighter that essentially throwing any punches in St Juste. It’s hard to see Green doing anything special at light heavyweight after this fight. There are too many solid punchers in the division and his chin is just too suspect.