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Cloutier’s Canada Corner
Alvarez-Green Cancelled For The
Second Time
By Daniel Cloutier
The fight which was opposing the Montrealer Eleider Alvarez
and the American Allan Green Friday night in Hartford,
Connecticut, has been cancelled yet another time. It was
supposed to be the main event of an ESPN-2 Boxing night.
Originally scheduled for May 25th in Montréal, this fight
Alvarez-Green was cancelled two days before this event
(Stevenson-Dawson), when HBO has decided to add a fight
between the Puerto Rican Jose “Sniper” Pedraza (13-0-0) and
the Mexican Sergio Villanueva (25-2-2), a bout won by
Pedraza by TKO in the seventh round.
A few days after this show presented at Bell Centre, the
promoter of the GYM Group, Yvon Michel, made an agreement
with the rapper-promoter 50 Cent to reschedule the fight
Alvarez-Green for July 5th in Hartford.
Green (32-4-0), who was six pounds overweight at the weigh
in Thursday afternoon, was hospitalized a few hours before
the show Friday, because of food poisoning.
The big question now: Yvon Michel will try a third time to
oppose Alvarez to Green or he will forget the idea?
Alvarez (12-0-0), a Colombian who is living in Montréal
since the beginning of his pro boxing career (2009), is NABA
and NABO light heavyweight North American champion. He is
ranked fourth contender by the WBA, and seventh by the
WBO.He wants absolutely to fight for the WBA or the WBO
light heavyweight championship of the world in 2014.
Green is a veteran from Tulsa, Oklahoma, was involved in the
Super Six Showtime tournament in 2010.
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