In 2006, with the IBF and IBO Welterweight titles on the line, Zab Judah went up against Floyd Mayweather in Las Vegas. From the beginning of the fight, Mayweather outboxed Judah and had the latter in a fix. However, in the 10th round, Judah unexpectedly hit Mayweather with a low blow that created chaos inside the ring.

Anyway, as per ESPN, Mayweather vs. Judah generated 374,000 buys and $16.8 million in revenue. After 17 long years since the $16.8M event, Zab Judah, in a recent interview detailed what led up to the infamous low blow. Here is what the former unified Welterweight champion said.

Zab Judah details his low blow against Floyd Mayweather

According to Judah, it wasn’t exactly a low blow. As per his statements, from the 6th round onwards Judah started getting fatigued. As a result, in the 10th round, when a tired Judah tried to hit Mayweather with a body shot he ended up throwing a low blow. “No, that wasn’t a low blow. We had the big fight, it’s the 10th round, and fatigue is setting. I was getting tired from the 6th round. I’m fatigued. Now all I did was when he threw a punch, I dropped it and swung,” recounted Judah.

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“I went to a body shot, hit him enough. I didn’t know it was going to be a shot. But being fatigued and tired things happen,” added Judah. Along these lines, he emphasized that it wasn’t intentional at all. “It wasn’t intentional. I promise you,” Judah said.

Judah admits it was challenging to catch Mayweather

In the same context, Judah expressed it was difficult to catch Mayweather during their fight. “It was very challenging. I was trying to cancel Christmas, I didn’t want him alive. The first six [rounds] I was like that, in the next six [rounds] I got fatigued,” said Judah. Since he knew Floyd would try to out-point him, he wanted to apply pressure early. “I knew Floyd was going to try to out-point me, so my job was like apply the pressure early,” Judah stated. However, after swinging for 6 rounds, Judah got fatigued and ended up hitting Mayweather with an unintentional low blow.

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What do you make of the statements by Zab Judah? Do you believe that the low blow was unintentional? In addition, what do you think of Judah’s swing-and-apply-pressure strategy against Floyd? Share your thoughts with us in the comments below. For all the latest boxing updates, follow EssentiallySports.

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