Garcia: I’m going to KO Judah in fashion

By Boxing News - 01/13/2013 - Comments

Dany Garcia(Photo credit: Ester Lin/Showtime) By Allan Fox: WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (25-0, 16 KO’s) plans on going out and destroying 35-year-old Zab Judah (42-7, 29 KO’s) as fast as he can next month on February 9th at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Garcia, 24, says he’s not going out there just looking for a knockout but that’s what he plans on doing sooner or later in the fight.

Garcia said to thaboxingvoice.com “We’re going to end it in fashion with a knockout. I’m not going to come out looking for a knockout. I’m going to be ready to go 12 rounds, but if it happens, it happens.”

Garcia isn’t worried about Judah’s southpaw stance and says he doesn’t plan on doing anything extra to prepare for his style other than figuring him out in the ring. It makes a lot of sense because a lot of fighters get too caught up with planning their moves ahead of time and then they become too mechanical once they get in the ring by thinking too much instead of reacting to what’s in front of them.

Judah is one of the harder punchers that Garcia has faced in his career. Indeed, Judah may be the hardest puncher Garcia has been in with because he’s faced Amir Khan, Erik Morales, Nate Campbell and Kendall Holt. Judah may have a slight edge over Holt in the power department. It’s probably pretty close between them, but Judah might have a little more power. Garcia is still the much bigger fighter and there are rumors that he bulks up to close to middleweight after making the 140 pound weight limit. Garcia looks pretty big when he fights and that extra weight obviously helps him out.

Judah’s not the type that gets stopped with shots. The times that he’s been beaten by stoppages was when he got stopped by a borderline low blow by Amir Khan while he was being held by Khan, and then he was worn down from some low blows by Miguel Cotto and stopped in the 11th round in June 2007.



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