Allan Green-Sakio Bika crumbles, Green headed to Super Six

by Scott Christ on Jan 22, 2010 7:45 PM EST in Boxing News Analysis

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…

by mambocowboy on Jan 22, 2010 8:11 PM EST reply actions

Green’s kind of an odd duck in all ways.

Bad Left Hook
"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."

by Scott Christ on Jan 22, 2010 8:19 PM EST up reply actions

I am speechless.

"Boxing is dirty," said Casamayor. " The day I’m not ready to be a dirty fighter is the day I don’t fight anymore because it will mean that I have no heart for it anymore."

by Zocalo on Jan 22, 2010 8:17 PM EST 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.

by Pops Daniels on Jan 22, 2010 9:06 PM EST reply actions

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?

by schraubd on Jan 22, 2010 9:24 PM EST reply actions

Visa issues for Bika have been bandied about.

Bad Left Hook
"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."

by Scott Christ on Jan 22, 2010 11:37 PM EST up reply actions

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

I think Ward has proven he is world class… Green has proven that he can milk a knockout for all what it is worth.

"Boxing is dirty," said Casamayor. " The day I’m not ready to be a dirty fighter is the day I don’t fight anymore because it will mean that I have no heart for it anymore."

by Zocalo on Jan 22, 2010 10:07 PM EST up reply actions

It was a pretty awesome KO

by tichbou on Jan 23, 2010 6:53 PM EST up 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!!!!

by FrankinDallas on Jan 22, 2010 10:07 PM EST reply actions

I rather enjoyed watching Vic get merked

by tichbou on Jan 23, 2010 6:53 PM EST up reply actions

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

couldn’t of happened to a least deserving fighter.

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by sonofapsycho on Jan 22, 2010 10:37 PM EST reply actions

I'm not surprised that anything that Greg Leon is involved in falls apart.

by Upstait on Jan 22, 2010 11:24 PM EST 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