{"id":8267,"date":"2011-03-03T09:31:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T14:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=8267"},"modified":"2011-03-03T09:31:09","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T14:31:09","slug":"zab-judah-kaizer-mabuza-press-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=8267","title":{"rendered":"Zab Judah – Kaizer Mabuza Press Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Zab \u201cSuper\u201d Judah and Kaizer Mabuza faced off today in advance of their IBF junior welterweight title clash on Saturday night at the Prudential Center\u2019s AmeriHealth Pavilion in Newark, NJ.<\/p>\n

Zab Judah:<\/strong> \u201cPernell has been a great influence. I think we are going to Def Comedy Jam after this! Not only has Pernell Whitaker brought great skills to me, but he tweaked my whole world. He also brought humor, entertainment and kept the camp happy. He brought a lot of excitement, joy and fun. We had a great training camp in Las Vegas. We trained very, very hard for this fight. He came in for a six weeks of training camp, but I\u2019d been training myself long before that. I kind of skipped Christmas and New Years and focused on Kaizer Mabuza. I kept my mind focused on the plan. I mean, I\u2019m ready.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the past I have predicted rounds, knockouts, etc, etc. This fight I prepared myself for twelve rounds. I\u2019ve prepared myself for 100%. You know there\u2019s a myth about Zab\u2019s gonna fade and all that. For this fight, I went to the master right here (Pernell Whitaker). He\u2019s known for going 12 rounds; he\u2019s known for being the best fighter out there. His defensive skills are phenomenal, his offensive skills are phenomenal. I took what he\u2019s got and put it with what I\u2019ve got and ya\u2019ll know what that\u2019s gonna bring. It\u2019s gonna be magic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a young kid I mimicked and idolized Pernell Whitaker coming up, and watched him and Mike Tyson. Those two styles are different. You got one deep to the body, you got one aggressive fighter, so I mixed the both of them in and I got Zab Judah.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to thank my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for bringing me here. I respect Kaizer Mabuza for what he\u2019s done and his climb to the top. Me and my trainers, we\u2019ve prepared ourselves well for this opportunity. He\u2019s a young man here (Mabuza), he has a lot of time to come back and try to do this again, but this Saturday night is not his time. I respect him for coming over and taking this opportunity, but Saturday night you will see a five time champion of the world!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAmericans are missing one thing \u2013 they\u2019re missing an American hero, and I\u2019m here to take over that spot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kaizer Mabuza:<\/strong> \u201cI\u2019m glad to be back in America. It\u2019s an honor to me to fight a person like Zab Judah. I think he had his time; he\u2019s a former world champion. I think this is my time, because I\u2019m still hungry for success. And I promise him, when I take the ring I change, I become a new man. I\u2019m hungry for success so you have to expect that it will be like fireworks!\u201d<\/p>\n

Pernell Whitaker<\/strong>: \u201cFirst of all I\u2019m not here to talk about strategy. I think I\u2019ve given Zab enough, that he has enough in his toolkit for this particular fight. He\u2019s done everything I\u2019ve asked him to do; he\u2019s done a little more. Whatever Zab used to do in the past, is in the past, and now he has a new direction, a great direction. He\u2019s one of boxing\u2019s best. So I expect to see that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe name of the sport is called boxing. You don\u2019t call it knockout. You can go get that on video. He\u2019s got all the finesse, and finesse and speed brings power. All the old habits Zab once had are no longer there. He\u2019s listening. You guys are gonna see, defense makes offense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Promoter Kathy Duva:<\/strong> \u201cSince Zab came back to Main Events in July, he has done everything we have asked, gone above and beyond. He is taking all the steps he needs to take to regain that Jr welterweight title that he first won so many years ago, coincidentally against a South African. Before he can succeed he has to deal with this gentleman, Kaizer Mabuza, who has the same idea. Kaizer Mabuza has come here all the way from South Africa. I am sure he has worked his entire life to get to the same place. They both have the same goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of you may have seen Kaizer Mabuza when he first came to NJ and scored an upset against Kendall Holt. We know what he can do; we know what Zab can do. There are so many fights that people talk about lately and the results are a foregone conclusion. This is not the case here. We have a very explosive combination of styles that is going to make for an amazing event. We are not just going through the motions here, this is about do or die for both of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Zab \u201cSuper\u201d Judah and Kaizer Mabuza faced off today in advance of their IBF junior welterweight title clash on Saturday night at the Prudential Center\u2019s AmeriHealth Pavilion in Newark, NJ. Zab Judah: \u201cPernell has been a great influence. I think we are going to Def Comedy Jam after this! Not only has Pernell Whitaker brought […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[105,2822,2823,781],"class_list":["post-8267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-boxing","tag-kaizer-mabuza","tag-press-conference","tag-zab-judah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8267","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=8267"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}