Allan Green-Sakio Bika crumbles, Green headed to Super Six
by SC on Jan 22, 2010 7:45 PM EST
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BoxingScene.com reported today that after some speculation, the February 5 Shobox Super Six qualifier between Sakio Bika and Allan Green has fallen apart.
Raise your hand if you're 0.0006% surprised that a fight between Allan Green and Sakio Bika has failed to come about. Seriously. Raise your hand, and then comment about your shock. Someone out there has to be surprised. Someone out there has to really think, "Man, this guy in Creed has some great riffs."
Come on. Anybody? Come on! Don't be shy! Allan Green and Sakio Bika, guys who always get their fights made! As reliable as they come!
Anyway...
Word is now that Green will simply move forward and replace Jermain Taylor in the Super Six World Boxing Classic, facing Andre Ward on April 17. Green was supposedly always the alternate for the tournament, and his name came up when Gary Shaw (who promotes tournament participant Andre Dirrell) was hemming and hawing about something during footage from Showtime's documentary series about the tournament.
So after all of this, where we got the six fighters lined up, Green was rumored to be the alternate, Taylor pulls out, and then there's talk of an exciting fight between Green and Bika to decide who will get in, another shocker emerges: It'll just be Allan Green (DiBella fighter) in the tournament.
I have to sit down. I can't take this kind of surprise.
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In the interviews I’ve seen with Green he consistently sounds entitled and expresses a very inflated sense of his own ability. He says he will handle Ward, but he’s the same guy who looked lost when 38 year old Tarvis Simms turned southpaw on him in his last fight. If Simms confused him, imagine how confusing Andre Ward will be for him…
Green’s kind of an odd duck in all ways.
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by SC on Jan 22, 2010 8:19 PM EST up reply actions
funny stuff
I suppose I'm cast as the darkness, because I comprehended their light not at all; at least not in the way they wanted me to.
Ugh. I really wanted to see this fight. Was it just Green wanting to sit on his shot without taking a risky fight, or is there blame to go around?
Visa issues for Bika have been bandied about.
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"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."
I enjoy watching Green fight BUT.....
I think the sheer boxing talent which Ward posesses is going to give Allan fits.
by SmittytheCutman on Jan 22, 2010 9:30 PM EST reply actions
Other than Prince, there is no other human being that I’d like to see KTFO than Allan Green. I KNOW I can take Prince, but someone needs to help me out with Green. Abraham? Ward? Froch? SOMEBODY!!!!
Definitely
It wasn’t just a brilliant KO it was a brilliant KO of an arrogant ass. Doubly enjoyable!
"Honey i forgot to duck" - Jack Dempsey
by Drunken cutman on Jan 24, 2010 7:39 AM EST up reply actions
Green Is Not a Bad Opponent
Obivously, I do not think that Allan Greene could beat Andre Ward. But Greene’s style is something that could cause Ward fits at times. Green is a tough guy and plans to bring it. This is his only shot. He needs a strong performance, even in defeat. You can read more about my thoughts at http://www.examiner.com/x-33584-Cleveland-Boxing-Examiner
by Cleveland Boxing Examiner on Jan 23, 2010 12:47 AM EST reply actions
Say what you will, but Green always has a puncher’s chance—AND with either hand.
"If you sit there and watch a person take about an hour to tie his shoestrings, then you realize that whatever problems you got ain't that significant"
---Vernon Forrest 2006
by The Midnight Rambler on Jan 23, 2010 2:04 PM EST reply actions
Punchers chance
And a China chin…which makes for an interesting fight every time.
by FrankinDallas on Jan 23, 2010 6:08 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah Ward will have that element in many of his coming fights
Makes his fights more exciting and even better to watch. I still think Ward is all wrong for Green and will absolutely dominate him.
"Honey i forgot to duck" - Jack Dempsey
by Drunken cutman on Jan 23, 2010 6:44 PM EST up reply actions
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