By Mark Vester
They used to say Floyd Mayweather, Jr. had all sorts of problems with bad press, his friend Zab Judah is starting to catch up to him. From all reported accounts, Judah is trying to stay out of trouble, but it seems that trouble always seems to find him. No matter what Judah does, newspapers and major media outlets jump on the opportunity to take shots at the former multi-division champion.
Below is a prime example of how the major media reports the most ridiculous things about boxers, and at the same time these same publications give little to no mention of actual happenings in the sport of boxing.
It was reported by the NY Daily News and Vibe Magazine, that Zab Judah's wife Meda caused a big scene at New York's club Sol, when she was unable to enter the VIP area where her husband and sports start Serena Williams were hanging out.
It was alleged that Judah's wife "threw a fit," gabbed her husband and dragged him out of the club.
The one thing that both of these publications reported that is no laughing matter, is Judah's court battle with his ex-wife. Zab is due in Queens Family Court on Wednesday with ex-wife Natassia Wright, mother of his 4-year-old daughter, Amissia.
Wright is demanding $100,488 in back child support. Her lawyer, Suzanne Kimberly Bracker, says that if Judah does not pay, they will have him jailed.
"If he doesn't pay up, we're going to send him to jail," Bracker said.
Last month, Judah made all the headlines when three men tried to rob him as he stood next to his yellow Lamborghini on West 27th Street at 10th Avenue in New York. According to police, the trio rolled up in a minivan at about 5 a.m. and hopped out. One of them, 19-year-old Derrick Ayers, pulled a black handgun and told him to put his jewelry on the hood of his car. Judah ran instead.
The muggers followed in their van, which ended up crashing into a tree a block away. All three scattered, but one was captured by a Homeland Security agent on his way to work, and another was grabbed by a nearby cab driver.
"A bunch of idiots that didn't have no control over what they were doing," Judah told The New York Post. "They messed with the wrong guy."