Junior G
05-24-2007, 08:18 PM
Wednesday, May 23 2007
The comments of Zab Judah seemed particularly venomous during a media conference call on Wednesday afternoon. It turns out, however, that it wasn't Zab on the line at all. The person posing as "Zab" was in reality was his father and trainer Yoel Judah. "I called Zab's number 10 minutes ahead to make sure he would be ready and I assumed the person I was talking to was Zab," said a still-stunned Lee Samuels, head publicist for promoter Top Rank. I've been doing conference calls for Top Rank since 1982 and I've never been snookered like this before. I would have made a lousy contestant on the game show 'To Tell The Truth.' But I do apologize to the media for this." Judah's opponent, undefeated World Boxing Association welterweight champion Miguel Cotto was not surprised at all by Judah's shenanigans. "I've been saying all along that Judah was a fraud, this media conference call only confirmed it," said Cotto from his training camp in Puerto Rico.
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The comments of Zab Judah seemed particularly venomous during a media conference call on Wednesday afternoon. It turns out, however, that it wasn't Zab on the line at all. The person posing as "Zab" was in reality was his father and trainer Yoel Judah. "I called Zab's number 10 minutes ahead to make sure he would be ready and I assumed the person I was talking to was Zab," said a still-stunned Lee Samuels, head publicist for promoter Top Rank. I've been doing conference calls for Top Rank since 1982 and I've never been snookered like this before. I would have made a lousy contestant on the game show 'To Tell The Truth.' But I do apologize to the media for this." Judah's opponent, undefeated World Boxing Association welterweight champion Miguel Cotto was not surprised at all by Judah's shenanigans. "I've been saying all along that Judah was a fraud, this media conference call only confirmed it," said Cotto from his training camp in Puerto Rico.
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