By Rick Reeno

Promoter Lou DiBella informed BoxingScene.com that a deal is almost complete for a super middleweight war between Allan Green (29-1, 20KOs) and Sakio Bika (28-3, 19KOs) for February 5 on Showtime. The fight will headline a possible triple-header.

Nobody expects Green-Bika to go the distance. Everybody expects fireworks. Both of them have identical stats for their last six fights. Each fighter produced four knockouts in his last six outings. There were negotiations to make this fight a few months ago for the Mayweather-Marquez undercard. The money wasn't lucrative enough for Green, who at the time had a Showtime date on the table against Victor Oganov [later withdrew with an injury].