The New Yorker’s last bout at the weight was a first round knockout of Colombian southpaw Jaime Rangel back in December 2003.

At the time Zab thought he had taken the division as far as he could and wanted to move up the weight on the advice of Don King to gain bigger fights and heftier paydays against the like of Mayweather, Cory Spinks and Miguel Cotto.



Its ok taking the bigger pay days but it’s not as nice if your not winning the bouts, before moving up Zab was 30-1 but after making the step up to Welterweight his record was a poor 9-5.

So now his record stands at 39-6 and he is looking to dominante the division once again which has bloomed into one of the most exciting weight-classes out there with Amir Khan, Devon Alexander and Timothy Bradley all Champions at 140lbs.

Respect: Khan

"Amir's a great fighter with good speed, decent power and a lot of heart - he's a warrior, that would be a great fight down the line and I can't wait for it,” he added.

With fighters like Joan Guzman and Marcos Maidana on the verge of a title shot, also Devon Alexander and fellow American Timothy Bradley likely to fight each other late in the year, Zab could be looking for a warm up opponent before mixing it with any on those guys.

"My next fight is on 2nd October in Newark. We have a lot of names suggested - Juan Urango, Julio Diaz - but nobody locked in yet.

"Then we'll get Christmas over before I come back to get all my presents," declared Judah.

Judah officially drops down the weight for his next fight, although he did fight his last bout against Jose Armando Santa Cruz at a slim 141 for a Welterweight clash so the drop was on the cards all along.



"I've reinvented myself," said Judah. "My fans kept telling me, 'Zab, train hard and nobody can beat you, you're the best'. I did that for my last fight and it was great. I like the weight and feel very comfortable.

"People never understood my transformation… I only lost one light-welterweight fight, to Kostya Tszyu, and I was a young fighter at the time.

"What happened was a money thing. I was with Don King and he offered me Cory Spinks for the undisputed welterweight championship of the world.

"As a fighter, it's a dream to win all the belts.

"I moved up and fought Cory twice. He beat me the first time, then in the rematch I knocked him out in the ninth round.

"But I was fighting big welterweights like Miguel Cotto and Joshua Clottey.

"We'd be the same weight at the weigh-in, then they'd fill up and when we got to the ring I'd say, 'hey, where's the guy I weighed in with yesterday'? The guys were super big.

"I realised that I wasn't in the right weight class, so I got my thing together and got back down to 140."