Former world champion Zab Judah reckons that he could’ve been the man to hand Floyd Mayweather the first defeat of his pro career in their 2006 encounter.
Mayweather eventually bowed out of the sport with an unblemished 50-0 record, arguably cementing himself as one of boxing’s goated athletes. Yet Judah feels the welterweight clash between them must have had a different outcome than what went down.
On the All The Smoke Fight programme, Zab Judah claimed, “The first five rounds, Zab won… With the knockdown – that is six rounds, and from there the score should’ve been even.”
Judah later also commented on the infamous 10th round when Floyd Mayweather’s trainer Roger Mayweather stepped into the ring during a commotion involving Judah as grounds for him to have received an automatic DQ according to the rules of boxing. “If two men are fighting in the ring and anybody else comes in at any time, it is an automatic DQ.”
The three-time world champion was to be defeated by decision by Mayweather in that bout in Las Vegas. Zab Judah feels this loss had significant consequences as well; he added, “That changes the whole trajectory of Floyd’s ‘TBE’ career, because he is not 50-0 no more. That is automatically one round different; now all of a sudden the public got somebody to point at him, not a ‘TBE’ anymore”.
