I haven't seen a lot of Alvarez but Green is a big step up for him. Green's fought in Canada a couple times the past year or two so this fight makes sense for this card. Green is an underachiever, not the most fan friendly guy in the ring, and approaching his mid 30's. I'll be pulling for Alvarez in this one.
Rumors say that Alvarez do well in sparring with Pascal. Really good jab and good power. He did well in the amateurs too. Green doesn't look to take boxing seriously anymore , he even have trouble maiking weight at 175. It's sad because he had nice naturals skills
Not really. He still has that power, as evidenced by stunning Kessler and beating St. Juste to a bloody pulp - so he might be in with a puncher's chance, but that won't really serve him unless Alvarez is harboring a shaky chin and I don't think he is. In terms of h2h difficulty and skill, he really isn't much of a step up from guys Alvarez has already beaten despite being a bigger name than all of them. Poulard, McIntosh, and Hawk all occupy more or less the same rung of the ladder as Green. Honestly at this point Green is barely above high-class journeyman Rayco Saunders. The guy he just stopped is 40. He buzzed Kessler, sure, but then got KTFO. Before that he got a gift decision (despite being outfought and even hurt a few times) over mediocre feather fist Sebastien Demers...and of course the year before that he took a whooping from Ward and Johnson back-to-back.
I haven't seen Green- Demers, I saw Green won wide on the cards in Demers home town and the occasional write up I saw seemed ok with the decision but thats all I knew. I haven't seen Green's last few fights, outside of Kessler, but he'd really have to have fallen to not still be a better opponent than guys like Hawk and Poulard. Hawk and Poulard are solid opponents for a guy with Alvarez's pro experience but Green was always a level above that. I should probably try to find a few of Green's recent performances but I just can't bring myself to watch much of Allan Green.
[DM]xm71qv[/DM] This was on the Bute vs. Johnson undercard. It was strange, because two Quebecois seemed to get robbed in their hometown on the same card that night. (Gauthier against Molitor, and Demers against Green) Majority opinion is that Gauthier and Demers both earned it close but clear in hard fights against their more well-known opponents.
I just watched and saw it 6-4 Demers, there were some close rounds so Green winning wouldn't have been an outrage. Its not usual though for the visiting guy to get the nod in a close fight and even if someone thought Green deserved the decision the scores were way too wide.
