By Rick Reeno

During a recent interview with BoxingScene.com, WBO junior welterweight champion Timothy Bradley was in full agreement with Oscar De La Hoya, who believes junior welterweight Lucas Matthysse was robbed of a win last weekend in Newark, New Jersey. Last Saturday at the Prudential Center, Zab Judah (40-6-2, 27KOs) won a close twelve round split decision over previously undefeated Matthysse (27-1, 25KOs).

The scores were 114-113 for Matthysse, 114-113 for Judah, and 114-113 for Judah. There wasn't much action in the fight until the tenth round, when Matthysse knocked Judah down with a hard right hand, and then controlled the remaining rounds.

In an earlier report on BoxingScene, Golden Boy President De La Hoya, who promotes Matthysse, said - "Matthysse clearly won but he was fighting in Judah's house and it seems that he had to knock him out to get the win. He fought a great fight and this is something that is positive for him and not something negative. The door is open more than ever for Lucas, especially at HBO, who are going to want to see him again very soon in another big fight at 140-pounds."

Bradley felt the judges didn't give Matthysse enough credit for his body punching.

"I felt Matthysse got robbed. Zab didn't do anything all night. He was hitting him with the jab, but as far as the most effective punches - Matthysse was killing him to the body. You don't get no credit for body punching. He was hitting him to the chest all night long. He hit him to the chest like 60-something times and he didn't get no credit for it. He just kept going to the body and going to the body, and then all of a sudden Zab's legs were gone. He couldn't move," Bradley told BoxingScene.com.

"And then Matthysse came in and dropped him, and beat him convincingly in that round, and the next round and the next round. Matthysse was way more busier and landing body shot after body shot to Zab's one jab. Matthysse landed more counters than him and he was more effective than him, and he still lost the fight. I was like 'you've got to be kidding me.'"

Based on his review, Bradley says Judah has a stylistic problem of always staying within range of the opponent's punches.

"Zab has good elusive movement, but he always stays in range. Like when Matthysse was hitting him with the body shots, he was just sneaking them in there. And when Zab throws the jab, he just stays there. He was getting hit to the body and hit to the body. I was wondering if he was going to make it to the later rounds. When that right hand hit, I was surprised he made it up," Bradley said.