Zab Judah just recently joined All The Smoke\u2019s podcast and in this segment he speaks about his perspective on his 2006 fight against Floyd Mayweather that notably went haywire down the stretch of the fight. Even to this day Judah believes he was hard done by in that fight, believing he at worst deserved a draw. Here\u2019s some of what he had to say on the topic.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople say the first five rounds, Zab won,\u201d Judah said. \u201cIf you add the knockdown, that\u2019s six rounds. It\u2019s only 12 rounds in a fight so if I win six and he wins six, fight\u2019s a draw\u2026If two men are fighting in the ring and somebody jumps in the ring at any time, it\u2019s an automatic DQ. So those are the real situations that happened in the fight that should\u2019ve changed\u2026But if that would\u2019ve happened or we go back and change that, then that changes the whole trajectory of Floyd Mayweather\u2019s TBE career, because now he\u2019s not 50-0 no more.<\/p>\n
\u201cFloyd Mayweather had all of his fights in Las Vegas. Today when we see things like that happen it\u2019s called a what? It\u2019s called a residency. So he had a modern day boxing residency in Nevada saying he\u2019s not going to lose. Because this is a residency, this has got to go on two times a year, one at the top of the year, one at the end of the year, every year. \u2018You stay on your feet, you good, we got you, you\u2019re going to win\u2019. So Floyd had a residency, six rounds I won, the knockdown, the uncle and them getting into the ring \u2014 that should\u2019ve been a disqualification.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo there\u2019s so many different factors why that fight should\u2019ve went the other way. But the smartest thing that I think that Bob Arum and Floyd Mayweather team did was I got suspended right after the fight. Somehow they said I was the causer of the brawl, I was the initiator of the brawl, and they got me out the way for a whole year.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey was able to go up the ladder so that when it was time for me to come back after my one year, you already know they was like \u2018nah, nah, nah, we doing this, we doing that.\u2019 So that\u2019s why you never seen a Zab Judah vs Floyd Mayweather Pt. 2.\u201d<\/p>\n
Judah was then asked about the low blow and the shot behind the head he struck Floyd with in the 10th round that kicked off a melee with Roger Mayweather, but Judah insists neither was deliberate.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t try to do that,\u201d Judah responded. \u201cIt was the 10th round, we was both fatigued\u2026I threw a shot and followed up\u2026I did not do that intentionally. It was the heat of the moment\u2026They broke it up and he started doing his antics and walks off and Richard Steele was looking \u2014 he didn\u2019t even know what to call, he didn\u2019t even know what happened!\u201d<\/p>\n
Ultimately, Judah says Mayweather escaped with an official win on his record and had absolutely no intention of running it back with him after the trouble he presented.<\/p>\n
\u201cRegardless of whatever, they didn\u2019t want no rematch. They didn\u2019t want that to happen because Zab was getting in that ass.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zab Judah just recently joined All The Smoke\u2019s podcast and in this segment he speaks about his perspective…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,85],"class_list":["post-853968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}