By Mark Vester
At the Palms Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, Zab Judah (38-6, 26KOs) stopped Ubaldo Hernandez (22-20-2, 10KOs) in two rounds. It was Judah's first fight since last November's decision win over Ernest Johnson. Hernandez was a late replacement and had not fought in over two years.
Judah dropped Hernandez while he was off-balance with a shot to the body in the last fifteen seconds and then sent Hernadez down again a few seconds later but ref Joe Cortez ruled it as a slip. Moments into the second round, Judah landed a few punches to the body and one of them clocked Hernandez right on the cup with a low blow. Hernandez went down from the low blow and Cortez counted him out as he didn't see the low blow. It was a very bad stoppage but the fight was a mismatch from the start.
At a career high weight of 146-pounds, Joel Casamayor (36-5, 22KOs) won a harder than expected eight round decision over Jason Davis (11-5-1, 3KOs). Casamayor had some ring rust in the first couple of rounds and started to come on in the last three rounds. The scores were 79-73 by all three judges for Casamayor.
The performance was not exactly a top notch performance. Coming into the bout, Davis had lost his last three fights, including a two round TKO loss to Steve Forbes back in March. It was Casamayor's first fight since getting knocked out by Juan Manuel Marquez last September.