FINAL WEEK FOR THE ESPN 2 Show!!

Mack is right on schedule, the weight is good. Attiude is better. He is ready to fight. Great article in the Daily News of New York. Here it is:


Yusaf Mack plans run to light-heavy title

Before Yusaf Mack fought Librado Andrade in October, his manager, Rory Donadio, contacted John Tandy in England, seeking a fight plan.

"Obviously, he didn't follow the plan," Tandy said of Mack, who was stopped on a seventh-round TKO despite dropping Andrade in the first round.

Tandy has stopped advising Mack long distance and has come to the U.S. to take a hands-on approach. He is working with Mack at the COMBATT gym in Newark to help him prepare for a 10-round light heavyweight match against Daniel Judah (22-2-3, 10 KOs) at Aviator Sports Complex in Brooklyn, on ESPN's "Wednesday Night Fights" on June 4.

Mack (24-2-2, 15 KOs) had climbed the super middleweight ladder and was poised to take that final step toward a championship when he tripped over Alejandro Berrio in an IBF eliminator for the No. 2 spot in 2006. Berrio stopped Mack on a sixth-round TKO. The Librade fight was supposed to put Mack right back in the saddle. Instead he got thrown again.

"It was very frustrating, very bad," Mack said. "I know I have all the talent that I need to be a champion. All I have to do is train to get the best out of my talent. That's what I'm doing now."

That's where Tandy comes in. Tandy determined that Mack had outgrown the super middleweight division and he wasn't training properly.

"He got to Andrade in the first round, but he just didn't have anything in the later rounds," Tandy said. "He had been struggling to make the weight and it hurt him during the fight."

Tandy didn't know that Mack, 28, was having stamina problems when he came up with that fight plan.

"It was a good plan," Donadio said. "Yusaf followed it perfectly in the first round and it was working. But he couldn't follow it all the way through."

Donadio said that Tandy's specialty is fitness. Based on Tandy's expertise, the decision was made to have him come to the U.S.

Tandy said it took two or three weeks for the changes to click and for Mack to decide that he wanted to stick with it. Their first fight together was against Ernesto Zamora on April 11. Mack won on a second-round TKO.

"(Tandy) had all the tools and the techniques that I needed to win," Mack said. "As long as I listen to him I win."

Mack doesn't anticipate any problems with Judah, the older brother of Zab Judah. Daniel Judah is 2-2 in his last four outings, and his recent bouts have come at cruiserweight and heavyweight.

"I'm not there to impress the crowd or the people on TV, said Mack. "I'm just there to win."

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Countdown at t-minus 02:30:00 Judah will self destruct in t-minus 02:30:00.....oh wait wrong Judah.