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Allan is facing Rubin Williams in this week's main event (ESPN2, Friday, 9 p.m. ET). It is the third fight since his first career loss. That March 2007 defeat to Edison Miranda was supposed to be the breakthrough moment to stardom; instead it was the breakthrough moment to starving.
"I could only eat every three days in camp and the walls of my colon became so infected that my colon stopped doing what it was supposed to do: absorb water. I was extremely dehydrated, so dehydrated that I developed a temporary heart murmur. I had an overload of numerous toxins in my body that could have killed me. I shouldn't have been in the ring."
He was in the ring with a condition that desperately needed to be treated. Green tried to train and fight through it, but eventually there was no other choice but surgery. This past July, he would go under the knife just three days after his first round knockout of Darrell Woods.
"Eighty-five percent of my colon is gone. Actually, I feel better than I've felt in two years."
He is the only fighter you know who doesn't mind hearing he has no guts.
"I could only eat every three days in camp and the walls of my colon became so infected that my colon stopped doing what it was supposed to do: absorb water. I was extremely dehydrated, so dehydrated that I developed a temporary heart murmur. I had an overload of numerous toxins in my body that could have killed me. I shouldn't have been in the ring."
He was in the ring with a condition that desperately needed to be treated. Green tried to train and fight through it, but eventually there was no other choice but surgery. This past July, he would go under the knife just three days after his first round knockout of Darrell Woods.
"Eighty-five percent of my colon is gone. Actually, I feel better than I've felt in two years."
He is the only fighter you know who doesn't mind hearing he has no guts.
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