Beating up on Zab Corley
Given that opponent Manny Pacquiao is a southpaw, Mayweather’s camp is full of leftie sparring partners. He’s been battling early on with the younger southpaws, and thrashing them, but yesterday he went a few rounds with veteran Zab Judah, who met in the ring once, beating Judah soundly in 2006 for the IBF welterweight title.
Uncle Jeff picks up the story:
“Everybody was just hyped because they thought Judah was going to be something different, but Judah was worse than the other guys,” he said. “It seemed like Floyd had something personal against him. He beat the (bleep) out of him. So then he quit, he let Judah off the hook, because Judah’s got a fight coming up and he messed his eye up.
“In the second round, Judah didn’t have nothing left. He’s in shape. He’s got a fight coming up. But the thing is, Floyd, he’s on a different level right now. It may be just his mind, and all the (B.S.) he’s been dealing with with Manny over the years. Obviously, he’s taken that in some kind of way, and I mean, he’s punishing these guys.”
Mayweather to spar with Corley
Floyd Mayweather Sr., who trains his son, also has DeMarcus ‘Chop Chop’ Corley in camp to help his fighter prepare for the May 2 superfight in Las Vegas with Pacquiao. Corley is also a leftie Floyd Mayweather Jr. has met, and beaten soundly, beating him in 2004 in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
When Corley finally gets into the ring to spar with Mayweather we’ll get the quotes on what goes down between those two. Doubtless though Uncle Jeff’s report of the Corley sparring session won’t be too unlike his report from the first Judah sparring session.
“He just beat the (bleep) out of him,” Jeff Mayweather said of the Judah sparring session with his nephew. “He beat Judah so bad, Judah was scared to let his hands go.”
