{"id":11884,"date":"2011-06-24T09:28:54","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T13:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=11884"},"modified":"2011-06-24T09:28:54","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T13:28:54","slug":"zab-judah-fighting-words-for-amir-kahn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=11884","title":{"rendered":"Zab Judah Fighting Words for Amir Kahn"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Zab Judah: \u201cWhen I went in against Matthysse, me and my team knew that I was going to beat him. Golden Boy thought I was going to be a stepping stone, so they sacrificed one of their pawns. Now they\u2019re going to come back and sacrifice one of their queens. It\u2019s check mate baby, you know it is!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI plan to be his (Amir Kahn\u2019s) worst nightmare. After this fight I plan on Team Kahn having a 62 hour watch on Amir Kahn. I plan on being the Freddie Cougar of his dreams. I plan on being Freddie Cougar to Freddie Roach. I\u2019m pretty sure after this fight Freddie Roach would never put his golden boy and marquis fighter, which is Manny Pacquiao, against me in the ring.\u201d <\/p>\n

Over the past five years, \u201cI grew up a lot. It\u2019s not just about age, it\u2019s maturity. It took me a little more time to figure things out. Now I am alive and alert and I have the great Pernell Whitaker in my corner. Having him in my corner exempts the whole Freddie Roach thing. Now I have not only a masterful trainer, but I have a masterful fighter too. Freddie Roach has a great game plan when it comes to boxing training, but as a fighter he wasn\u2019t that masterful. I have not only a masterful fighter but a great teacher, so I have the edge.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPernell Whitaker and Zab Judah is something like a movie. We started out together when he was still fighting and it turned out to be a great thing. We are now working side by side with each other. He\u2019s my right-hand man! He\u2019s pouring on all the great skills and accomplishments that he\u2019s done in his boxing career. It\u2019s phenomenal. He\u2019s good at what he does.\u201d<\/p>\n

A win against Kahn would mean: \u201cFor the most part it unifies the division; it\u2019s a closer step to undisputed. I also think Amir Kahn is a good boxer. He has fast hands, decent power, but I think it\u2019s a sacrifice move what Golden Boy did here with Amir Kahn, and I think he (Kahn) will realize this once the bell rings.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m from Brooklyn, I don\u2019t have problem taking the the long, hard, grinding road. I wasn\u2019t the golden boy. I wasn\u2019t the guy always in the light, the guy always first picked, but somehow I made my way back to the top with the thanks of Main Events and Super Judah Promotions. It says a lot to come out of the \u201996 team of great fighters, and to be one of about 2 of those fighters still standing on the championship level.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMain Events has done a great job with me. It\u2019s a good feeling. I have a strong team. We\u2019re the underdogs going up against what they would call wolves, they do their jobs, I do my job, and we got a successful plan going on. I think we won\u2019t be stopped.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJuly 23rd is about this: what can you bring as far as your skills; what can you bring as far as far your brains; what can you bring as far as your knowledge of boxing; what can you do inside that square ring; what do you do when you look across that ring and there\u2019s a hungry lion named Zab \u201cSuper\u201d Judah looking you dead in the eye, anxious for the bell to go bing?\u2019 You either fold or you play cards. I\u2019m going to play to win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kathy Duva: \u201cZab is being under-estimated. Everybody keeps talking about Zab being old, but he\u2019s not old and I don\u2019t know why people think he is. If you look at the top ten best pound for pound fighters in the world you\u2019ll find that the vast majority of them are older than Zab. He\u2019s experienced. He started professional boxing at an age much younger than most professional fighters. There\u2019s nothing wrong with experience. If you look at the history of boxing, generally the young talented fighters have run into a problem the first time they meet up with an experienced fighter in his prime. That\u2019s the real test. Lots of guys can come up and win titles, there are lots of titles that are available, but when you get in that first fight against that really experienced fighter, that\u2019s the real test. That\u2019s the test that Matthysse was not able to pass, and now Kahn is going to have to deal with the same thing. That\u2019s why we like this fight, that\u2019s why we like Amir Kahn as an opponent for Zab, because we believe that Zab is going to take him to school.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Zab Judah: \u201cWhen I went in against Matthysse, me and my team knew that I was going to beat him. Golden Boy thought I was going to be a stepping stone, so they sacrificed one of their pawns. Now they\u2019re going to come back and sacrifice one of their queens. It\u2019s check mate baby, you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[52,105,781],"class_list":["post-11884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-amir-kahn","tag-boxing","tag-zab-judah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11884"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}