The Fighter Who Still Thinks He Beat Floyd Mayweather

Andrew Ravens
ByAndrew RavensProfessional Boxing Journalist

Zab Judah thinks the 50-0 should have ended at 36-0, and he has two arguments for why.

Judah told All The Smoke Fight that he did enough to change the result of his April 2006 loss to Floyd Mayweather, and that the scoring was only half of it.

People say that, the first five rounds, Zab won, you add the knockdown, that is six rounds. It is only 12 rounds in a fight, so if I win six and you win six, the fight is a draw, you know what I am saying?

His second argument is the more interesting one, and it concerns the tenth round, when Judah landed a low blow, and Roger Mayweather climbed into the ring.

Fast-forward, not to jump it up, but if two men are fighting in the ring and anybody else comes in at any time, it is an automatic DQ. So, those are the real situations that happened in the fight that should have been changed.

He knows what it would mean.

However, if we go back and change that, that changes the whole trajectory of Floyd’s “TBE” career, because he is not 50-0 no more.

The official cards were not close. At the Thomas & Mack Center, Glen Hamada scored it 119-109, giving Judah a single round.

Judah is not the only former opponent who feels shortchanged. Jose Luis Castillo has support for his 2002 decision loss, and Oscar De La Hoya still maintains he was robbed in 2007.