UK export Amir Khan added a second world title belt in extraordinary style Saturday night, ruling Zab Judah prior to scoring a fifth-round stoppage in their 140-pound championship unification battle at Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. The win acquired the 24-year-old the IBF junior welterweight crown along with his own WBA super lightweight laurels, which he was defending for the 5th time ever since beating Andriy Kotelnyk two years and five days back in Manchester, England.
He is now has a record of 26-1 with 18 knockouts. “We knew Zab Judah would be tricky and we needed to be one step ahead of him,” Khan stated. “My plan was to step to his left to take his big shots away from him. All my shots were hitting him and that’s when I started to put the pressure on. It feels like I haven’t even been in a fight.” The conclusion went at 2:47 of the fifth round, when, after Khan connected on a straight right to the head, he followed up with a right uppercut which landed squarely on the beltline of a bent-over Judah, who immediately went to his knees and took the entire 10-count from referee Vic Drakulich.
Judah stated the actual shot had been low and insisted he’d believed Drakulich had been giving him an eight-count to recuperate from the punch prior to waving the fighters together again. Rather, he lost for just the second time in 19 career fights at 140 pounds and fell to 11-7 in 18 career title matches. Now 33, Judah debuted in 1996, when Khan was 9 years old.
“I started to get on track late in the fight,” Judah stated. “He started out pretty fast and he had a weird jab, but I was starting to land my own jab in the later rounds. The fans around the world can look and see the low blow. I thought (Drakulich) was giving me time to get myself together.”
“When he said over, I was like ‘What?,” Judah added.
Khan proven himself as the aggressor from the very first bell, manipulating the initial two-thirds of the opening round using a solid left jab as well as combining in follow-up rights in the late going. Judah landed a sweeping right hook which preceded a Khan butt that left Judah wincing after contact with his right eye. A lot of same followed in the second, with Khan’s jab driving his offense into the final 30 seconds, when he connected a pair of scoring right hands.
Sports Network had Khan in advance, 40-36, during the time of the stoppage.
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