Green’s championship bout rescheduled
While clad in a jacket adorned with an “Under Rated” logo, Tulsa’s Allan Green said he is “happier and more excited about boxing than I’ve been in years.”
In a fight moved to April 24 from its originally announced date of April 17, Green challenges World Boxing Association super middleweight champion Andre Ward.
For the first time since October 1993, when Jay’s Tommy Morrison lost his World Boxing Organization heavyweight title to Michael Bentt at the Tulsa Convention Center, an Oklahoman is involved in a championship fight.
“I’m excited, but I still don’t realize how big this is. It still hasn’t sunk in,” said the 30-year-old Green, who this weekend travels to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., for the start of training.
The Ward-Green bout is part of Showtime’s Super Six World Boxing Classic tournament — an event involving six of the world’s best super middleweights. Green recently was in New York for a promotional photo and video session. The video can be seen at tulsaworld.com/allangreenvideo and will be aired during Saturday’s Super Six contest matching Andre Dirrell and Arthur Abraham (9:30 p.m., Showtime).
The Ward-Green site still has not been determined, but the fight is expected to occur in California and possibly in Ward’s hometown of Oakland. Green has a record of 29-1 and, in the 168-pound super middleweight class, is rated in the world top five by three major sanctioning bodies. Ward, 25, is undefeated at 21-0.
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facing Ward, regardless of the outcome, the Super Six tournament will pit Green against former WBA title-holder Mikkel Kessler from Denmark.
Green says that fight will happen in August or September and most likely in New York’s Madison Square Garden.
“That’s my dream — to fight in the Garden,” Green said.
