(Photo credit: Ester Lin/Showtime) By Ben Walton: A pugilistic storm is brewing. On Feb 9th at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, hometown veteran Zab Judah, takes on the young unbeaten WBA/WBC champion Danny swift Garcia. Now to many fans and scribes this will be nothing short of an easy nights work at the office for young Danny, out-boxing and possibly stopping the old, past it Judah. But I really think we need to look at this a little deeper before we completely dispel any notion of Zab Judah doing the impossible.
First lets look at Zab. Former 5 time world champ over 2 weight divisions, still a fighter who has decent speed, good skills and a good seasoned boxing brain. But now a man who at 35 has without doubt seen his better days pass him by. But is a 35 year old Zab really that bad to not even be in with a shout against in my opinion, a very flat footed, basic skilled, relative novice in Danny Garcia?