Quote Originally Posted by Unknowndonor
The main reason, IMO, was that Mitchell had already lost to Tszyu, and, instead of risking a fight with him, Zab took the unification with Tszyu. More money, and more recognition. After that, Mitchell was only looking to fight Tszyu because he was undisputed. After the move to welter, Floyd got to Mitchell first.
zab was supposed to fight mitchell, it was on boxrec like 2 months b4 the PBF fight, i think PBF offered himn a better purse