The ESPN FNF offering from the land where the wind comes right behind the rain, featured promising Tulsa  middleweight Allan Green, in with a targeted age 39 Darrell Woods - and the lights went out early in the opening stanza at the 1:22 mark.

Woods drops to an infamous 26-11, 10 KO’s and should call it a career - maybe find himself a stud farm while there’s still some life left - clearly an accident waiting to happen if continuing in the punch for pay biz - down from a power right hand shortly after the opening bell, he was quickly blitzed from both sides by the big hitting Green.

House hack Gerald Ritter made the correct call, as Woods never had a prayer as early as when first signing on the dotted line for an obvious mismatch.

Rest of the story: What about this Allan Green with the good height and gifted punching power? Still young enough at age 27 to seriously contend for a strap at the 60-65 pound fraternity of his choosing. Questions going unanswered surfaced in the one blemish on the glittering rap sheet of a now 24-1, 17 KO’s.

It wasn’t the decision loss to Miranda alone that set the amber lights blinking - was the way things turned around late in that one - Green drops Miranda with picture perfect left-hook but the Colombian tough guy recovers and late in the bout drops Green several times.

The mystery deepens when Miranda is soundly trounced by newcomer Kelly Pavlik to the tune of TKO 7 - that one a title eliminator that earned the Youngstown bomber a dance with champion Jermain Taylor.

Put this all together and it spells intrigue - as in how much a contender or prospect do we have in Allan "Sweetness" Green - says here the jury is still out after the impressive stoppage of Woods last noche.

It also says let’s not write off the still young Tulsa bomb tosser - too many straps out there for the grabbing - and with some fine tuning he just might snatch one for himself.

The kid comes across a "thinker" - and with Woods the thinking was tora, tora, tora - and was the best approach to get the paying clientele also re-thinking - as in Green once again a player.

The Miranda sweet-n- sour misadventure was more a self destruct when he failed doing what comes naturally and went the safety first route to oblivion - but the kid is once again back in business.

The proof in the pudding comes when the Tulsa, Oklahoma sooner is once again prepared to share the playing field with a Miranda - or middleweights Taylor, Pavlik, Abraham - maybe super middles Calzaghe, Kessler, Berrio, Mundine, Lacy?

Now that’s the "Rest of the story."

GEL 

7-14-2007