Quote Originally Posted by killersheep View Post
How quickly you all forget, Bute opted out of the tourney for his rematch with Andrade. Bute was not going to come into the tourney without a chance of point in the first fight.

Green was made an alternate as he was the highest ring rated 168, that agreed to sign off on it. This was established at the beginning of the tourney. Rumors began to spread about a showdown between Green and Bika for the spot, but they were just rumors.

So that's why.
This is correct. Green was always the runner up because Bute wanted the Andrade fight more. The only thing to add is that Showtime scheduled a fight for entrance to the tournament between Bika and Green, but Bika backed out for undisclosed reasons.