Zab Judah had Miguel Cotto hurt bad

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That's going to be Julio Jr when he fights Miguel next year.

 

Riddick Bowe used to be a magnet for whatthe****ery AND holyshittery. Everybody got hurt, fouled, men flew into the ring with motorized fans on their backs, people got kicked, punched in the nuts for no reason, fought on jelly legs for six rounds, suffered facial fractures, gassed out of nowhere, pregnant women fainted, race riots happened, Ali impressions. ...I miss Bowe.

 

This will be Zab tomorrow night:

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Not that much on topic, but I just rewatched Cotto-Mosley before seeing this thread. What a fight and what a coincidence !

 

really wasent as bad as it was clean. cotto is clearly still fighting back and never went into defense mode.

 

If that had been ANY other fighter than Cotto Zab would have won that fight on DQ!

That was a BS lose, lose situation for Zab. You can't punch right so I lose. WTF?

 

Probably one of the most overrated examples of a fighter being hurt, at no point did Cotto look like he was on the verge of being stopped, infact at 1.39, before he hit Judah low, you can visibly! see his legs are completely under him, of coarse people who try and exaggerate the incident will assert he did it to buy respite :-(, not that it was a result of him accidentally throwing low.


Now you can make it to be what ever you want, but at 1.39, you can CLEARLY see Cotto's legs are under him, that he is not on shaky legs.


Corley hurt Cotto BAD!!

 

This is what you call being hurt, bad!

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What annoys me about Judah, is he always gets a pass for his weaknesses. People always say "He'd be a great fighter if...", well that's like saying "Andrew Hartley would be a great fighter if he was as good as Julio Cesar Chavez". It's bull****. Judah has genuine faults aside from the fact he has no heart, and I don't know why that's always overlooked.

In the fight against Cotto, people love to point out these few shots that he landed and talk about his mental failures. Maybe his mental failures were due to the fact that Cotto, a guy nobody really praises as being a super talented boxer, was clearly outboxing him? He outboxed and outfought Judah. It was a clear win, not because Judah has small insignificant weaknesses, but because he's a flawed fighter in all aspects.

It annoys me the way people talk about the Baldomir fight, like it was a fluke of some sort. It wasn't. Baldomir was a better fighter than Judah and deserves to be rated as such, which I know in the minds of 90% of people, he isn't. He didn't just "outlast" Judah and it wasn't a fight where Judah crumbled for no reason, what Baldomir did was more than that. He proved he was the better fighter. Sure, he may not be able to throw lightening fast combinations, like Judah, but boxing is about more than that. Yet again though, any fighter with fast hands is automatically a boxing genius. It's ridiculous.

Most people would probably say Judah was unlucky in his career, because he had such great physical attributes. I'd say he was lucky to beat Spinks when he did because it's the only good win of his career and Spinks was a poor champion, yet because of it, Judah was a legitimate world champion. Judah lost to the best fighters he fought, Mayweather, Cotto, Tszyu, Clottey and Baldomir. He didn't under achieve. His level was going 1-1 with Cory Spinks.

 

This thread is full of the "IF Syndrome.'' IF Tyson would've blocked ALL punches Lewis threw, he would've won. IF my mom would've trained in a boxing gym 24/7 she would've probably beaten M. Ali. IF Mosley would've kept on beating Floyd during the 2nd rd he would've won........ But guess what... all those things didn't happen....

 

That's the best summary of Bowe's career I've ever read!