Thread: Zab Judah: A career of missed opportunity?

I will say one thing, Zab is getting the fights that Floyd Mayweather should be chasing right now.

Cotto. And Zab says if he wins(but probably if he loses too) he will be fighting Margarito or the winner of Maragrito vs. Williams(which will be Margarito)

Zab has no chin. His career is where it should be. A guy who has good skills but doesn't take a good punch. I cannot tell you how happy I was the night Tzyzu beat him. Had the ref. not stopped it then, Tzyzu would have ended soon after and more conclusively.

Originally Posted by amat

Originally Posted by Ice Man

I don't see zab as a "wasted talent" nor even a "wasted career". I think Zab is getting a bad wrap b/c we haven't seen him win since 2005(?) which was only two fights.

Well yeah but he lost those fights because he gave up on himself which is far from encouraging.

Originally Posted by Ice Man

People (it seems) to have a "recent" memory. Not to acknowledge that Zab only has been stopped once in a fight,

Yeah but how many more times has he just shut down? He shut down versus Pineda, Baldomir and Mayweather and could have been stopped in all of them imo.

Originally Posted by Ice Man

Held his own against the best P4P fighter in the world (seemed to do better than Oscar in the beginning of the fight, by actually hitting Floyd).

Floyd was just figuring him out those first 3 rounds, and besides, the whole thing is he completely shut down when faced with any adversity. IMO, he did not hold his own at all.

Originally Posted by Ice Man

And that Zab is 11-4 (9 KO) in Championship fights (not the best, but pretty good).

Only 1 of those wins is against anyone anywhere near the top 10 of the division, Spinks.

Originally Posted by Ice Man

Have we forgotten that Zab defeated Mickey Ward, Terron Millet, the akward Junior Witter (who is undefeated since the Zab fight, i think ) the rugged Cosme Riverea, and Demarcus Corley...so, yeah zab lost his last two fights, S*** happens, but that cannot erase a good career.

That list in itself is not bad until you realize Zab is so damn talented and that only 3 of those names are worth anything and they still don't account for much when you realize how much talent Zab has.

SHIT YOU JUST MURDERED MY MESSAGE DIDN'T YOU

Originally Posted by Starr

I will say one thing, Zab is getting the fights that Floyd Mayweather should be chasing right now.

Cotto. And Zab says if he wins(but probably if he loses too) he will be fighting Margarito or the winner of Maragrito vs. Williams(which will be Margarito)

That's because Zab can get Cotto to agree to fight him.

Cotto's handlers aren't willing to throw Cotto in there with Floyd yet, and they shouldn't be. He needs to beat a lesser fighter, like Zab, before he can even think about challenging someone like Floyd.

This isn't a case of Zab being willing to fight guys that Floyd isn't willing to fight.