Allan Green
Allan Lamar Green ( born September 20, 1979 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA) is an American boxer in the super middleweight division.
Amateur
Green can show as an amateur with some major successes but never qualified for participation in the Olympic Games. He also served as a five-time Oklahoma state champion and four -time winner of the regional Golden -Gloves Championships. In 2002, Green won the National Golden Gloves Championship, where he his opponent Tommy Crupe from Detroit, Michigan ausknockte in six seconds in the second round. Green now holds the record for the fastest knockout in amateur boxing and unterbat Mike Tyson by two seconds, which held the record since 1982. In the final, Green won then against Curtis Stevens.
Professional career
Allan Green made his debut on 9 November 2002 against Robert Dykes as a professional boxer, winning by TKO in the first round. In his fourth professional fight he defeated in March 2003, the subsequent interim WBO world cruiserweight champion Ola Afolabi, over four rounds on points. Green won in the first five years of his professional career 23 fights, so he attracted in 2005 with a spectacular knockout in just 18 seconds against his unbeaten compatriot Jaidon Codrington stir. This all-in was chosen by the Ring Magazine Knockout of the Year for 2005.
On March 3, 2007 Green came into the Puerto Rican capital of San Juan against the hard-hitting Colombian Edison Miranda. Although he scored in the eighth round of a precipitate which had in the tenth round but twice to the ground and eventually lost on points.
He won his next six fights, including against Rubin Williams, Carl Daniels, Carlos De Leon Jr. and unbeaten Tarvis Simms. After Jermain Taylor withdrew from the competition after a serious knockout defeat in the Super Six World Boxing Classic tournament, Green should start on 5 February 2010 to box against Sakio Bika from Cameroon to determine the replacement for Taylor. Since Bika the duel, however, canceled at short notice without stating reasons, Green took over directly Taylors place. His first fight within the Tournament on June 19, 2010 in Oakland against Andre Ward he lost convincingly on points. The second fight against Green lost the 41 - jahrigen Jamaican Glen Johnson by KO in round eight and thus no points difference from the Super Six tournament.