Video: Zab Judah Not Walking Away After Garcia Loss
Bill Emes catches up with Zab Judah to discuss his twelve round decision loss to WBC/WBA junior welterweight champion Danny Garcia.
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Danny Garcia Shows His Grit in Overcoming Zab Judah
By Jake Donovan - The long-growing rivalry between Danny Garcia and Zab Judah reached a resolution Saturday evening at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Months of trash talk, postponements and desperate efforts for promotion came to close as Garcia scored a mid-round knockdown and fended off a late rally to top Judah via unanimous decision. Scores were 116-111, 115-112 and 114-112 in the 12-round Showtime-televised main event. The action was slow in the early going. The most significant punch in the opening round was landed by Garcia, connecting with a right hand that momentarily forced Judah to change direction. The defending unified titlist picked up the pace in round two, tightening up the distance in his right hands and also scoring with body shots underneath Judah’s guard. Judah was expected to offer his usual all-in attack in the first four rounds of the fight. Instead, fans saw a faded veteran now 17 years into his career and no longer able to rely on his once blazing hand and foot speed. The occasional power shot would land for the Brooklynite, but nothing that caught Garcia’s attention early on.
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Judah: Matthysse a Much Harder Puncher Than Garcia
Former champion Zab Judah has now been in the ring with both Danny Garcia (26-0, 16KOs) and Lucas Matthysse (33-2, 31KOs) - and indicates that Matthysse is a much harder puncher than Garcia. Judah won a razor-thin twelve round split decision over Matthysse in 2010 and lost a twelve round decision to Garcia on Saturday night. Matthysse has been the mandatory challenger to Garcia's WBC junior welterweight title for some time but the fight never seems to come together. If Matthysse beats IBF champion Lamont Peterson on May 18th, Golden Boy appears to be ready to put him in the ring with Garcia.
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Danny Garcia Survives Late Rally To Decision Zab Judah
By Jake Donovan - Despite threats to the contrary, Danny Garcia left Brooklyn the same way he arrived – unbeaten and still a unified titlist. The 25-year old successfully turned back the challenge of former two-division champ Zab Judah with a unanimous decsion Saturday evening at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
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Zab Judah Still Not Buying Danny Garcia's Rib Injury
NEW YORK — Zab Judah afforded Danny Garcia the benefit of the doubt on a conference call three weeks ago when he was asked about the legitimacy of the Garcia rib injury that caused their fight to be postponed 2½ months. Judah wasn’t in as nearly a diplomatic mood Thursday after their press conference fiasco at Barclays Center. The former two-division champion called out Garcia for what Judah considers a bogus excuse for the postponement of their 12-round fight for Garcia’s WBC 140-pound championship (Showtime; 9 p.m. ET Saturday).
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B-Scene Staff Predictions: Danny Garcia-Zab Judah
Less than two months after Bernard Hopkins once again rewrote the history books, the Barclays Center once again plays center stage to a big night of action. Headlining the Brooklyn show on Saturday evening is the very fighter who helped christened the newly erected venue. Danny Garcia returns in a 140 lb. title defense against former two-division champ, Brooklyn’s own Zab Judah. The bout serves as the headlining act of a Showtime-televised tripleheader. Garcia (25-0, 16KO) is coming off of a breakthrough campaign in 2012, scoring three title fight wins. None was bigger than his 4th round knockout of Amir Khan last summer, establishing himself as the class of the 140 lb. division.
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CompuBox Historical Review: Danny Garcia-Zab Judah
Zab Judah throws well below the weight class average. In his last 4 fights (vs. Paris, Khan, Mabuza, Matthysse), only 14 of his 44 punches thrown per round were power shots. He did land 54% though. Danny Garcia's last 4 opponents (Morales I & II, Khan & Holt) landed 36% of their power shots.
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Martinez-Murray/Garcia-Judah: Pre-Weekend Report Card
By Cliff Rold - It’s time for the latest chapter in “As the Premium Networks Turn.” Or is it “All My Promotional Feuds?” Whatever one calls it, it’s another night of HBO and Showtime showing quality shows at the same time. Some people don’t like it. Some people don’t like Christmas or Salma Hayek dancing with a snake in “From Dusk ‘Til Dawn.” They’ll get over it. Boxing can never have enough good fights and if there just isn’t enough room to have them all on different nights, then the least we can ask is for it to be kept lively. Mission accomplished this weekend in a solid Middleweight title affair and an old-fashioned grudge match at Jr. Welterweight. Let’s go to the report cards.
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Zab Judah: Angel Garcia is a Drug Addict, A Dopehead!
NEW YORK — Zab Judah took his war of words with Angel Garcia to an extremely personal level Thursday. An incensed Judah called Garcia, father and trainer of WBC super lightweight champion Danny Garcia, a “dopehead” amid a heated press conference controversy at Barclays Center. “Angel Garcia is a dopehead,” Judah said. “Look at the man. He’s always going crazy. He must be a drug addict or an ex-drug addict or something. He can’t control himself. He reacts in a crazy, frantic way and me being from Brooklyn, and doing things that I used to do, this is how these people react. Plain and simple. I don’t know nothing else.”
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Zab Judah – The B-Side in Brooklyn
By Thomas Gerbasi - From a distance, Zab Judah looks like he always has: young, always on the verge of breaking out into a 1000 watt smile or laugh, and ready to take on the world. Look a little closer these days though, and you can see the lines that come with being 35 years old and having 51 professional fights. That’s what this game can do to you, even if Judah has kept his youthful appearance longer than most. He’s even kept his standing in the boxing world way beyond what most could ask for, winning several titles in the junior welterweight and welterweight divisions, and remarkably getting another shot at the 140-pound crown just two fights removed from a knockout loss to Amir Khan. For most, that would be a career to rest your head on and smile. Maybe even Judah says to himself that whatever happens against Danny Garcia this Saturday, he’s fought the good fight and left a legacy he could never hang his head over. But in his hometown of Brooklyn, and extending into the other four boroughs of New York City, there’s always been a sense that Judah could have been something even greater. After Mike Tyson and Riddick Bowe left their mark in the boxing world, “Super” Judah was next. He was the protégé of Tyson and Pernell Whitaker, occasionally with the stopping power of the former and the speed of the latter. He had his defensive shortcomings and lapses of concentration in the ring, but that just made him more exciting to watch. He wasn’t going to blast an opponent out in 30 seconds or shut someone out with defensive wizardry over 12 rounds, but he would show flashes of brilliance that most in the NYC area assumed would flesh out into a more sustained greatness.
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