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Junior Witter spent all night running... or so the story goes.
I finally managed to get hold of a copy of this tonight, and I've only had chance to watch the first six rounds.
Well... if he did run, then could you blame him? A late substitute opponent for Judah, Witter had never done past eight rounds at that stage and, ISTR, was called in with just nine days notice.
However, it seems to me that people just didn't understand Witter's style. The commentary doesn't help... it's disgracefully propriertorial from Sheridan & Co., outrageously biased for Zab, and not helped by the referee being on Junior's case constantly.
One of the things that disgusted me most was Sheridan and his co-commentator talking about Witter's "dirty tactics" in round four. This involved an alledged low blow that didn't look even remotely low to me, and "rabbit punches". The rabbit punches are head shots that Zab ducks under, making them go behind his ears... in other words, accidental rabbit punches. To listen to Sheridan carry on you'd think Witter was the Light Welterweight version of Frank Bruno and was doing it deliberately.
So far I've got it a very close 4-2 to Judah at this stage. However, the biggest telling factor is power. According to the stats, Witter had just 4 KOs out of 15 wins, a feeble amount. Yet the boy has grown into a man, and since the Judah match out of seventeen bouts only two haven't been haven't been TKOs or KOs then from somewhere he's developed wicked, spiteful power.
It's five years on, Judah's moved up a weight... but I'd love to see a rematch. Zab was clearly perplexed by this most unique of fighters, and with some pop in his punches it could have made a lot of difference. Plus, isn't it fun seeing Zab continually miss?
Junior ran for twelve rounds? Not a bit of it.
I finally managed to get hold of a copy of this tonight, and I've only had chance to watch the first six rounds.
Well... if he did run, then could you blame him? A late substitute opponent for Judah, Witter had never done past eight rounds at that stage and, ISTR, was called in with just nine days notice.
However, it seems to me that people just didn't understand Witter's style. The commentary doesn't help... it's disgracefully propriertorial from Sheridan & Co., outrageously biased for Zab, and not helped by the referee being on Junior's case constantly.
One of the things that disgusted me most was Sheridan and his co-commentator talking about Witter's "dirty tactics" in round four. This involved an alledged low blow that didn't look even remotely low to me, and "rabbit punches". The rabbit punches are head shots that Zab ducks under, making them go behind his ears... in other words, accidental rabbit punches. To listen to Sheridan carry on you'd think Witter was the Light Welterweight version of Frank Bruno and was doing it deliberately.
So far I've got it a very close 4-2 to Judah at this stage. However, the biggest telling factor is power. According to the stats, Witter had just 4 KOs out of 15 wins, a feeble amount. Yet the boy has grown into a man, and since the Judah match out of seventeen bouts only two haven't been haven't been TKOs or KOs then from somewhere he's developed wicked, spiteful power.
It's five years on, Judah's moved up a weight... but I'd love to see a rematch. Zab was clearly perplexed by this most unique of fighters, and with some pop in his punches it could have made a lot of difference. Plus, isn't it fun seeing Zab continually miss?
Junior ran for twelve rounds? Not a bit of it.
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