I?m sure the British Bulldog Winston Churchill would be impressed at how his island nation?s boxing press corps has bitten down and continues to cover Saturday night?s Zab Judah-Amir Khan world title bout as if nothing is amiss.
They?re stalwart warriors and, looking at their gumption in the face of ?No Gab? Zab?s refusal to answer their fight questions, one can readily understand how Hitler and his murderous goons never captured London the way they did Paris.
In a silly protest about the fact that the Khan camp bullied him into accepting the Las Vegas fight without getting him a single pence of the UK pay-per-view TV earnings, Judah refused to answer questions on a Wednesday media conference call from British voices.
And I thought pompous Lord Cromwell had treated my Irish ancestors badly.
This contretemps hasn?t exactly knocked the ongoing Rupert Murdoch phone hacking controversy off the front pages of the British tabloids but I, for one, find the misplaced anger interesting.
If Judah was boycotting Sky TV, you could make some sense of it but this childish tantrum of eschewing the whole UK press corps is absurd.
Does Zab Dabby really believe that Sky TV execs care how much money he makes? Why should they when they made their deal through the Khan camp.
Judah promoter Kathy Judah somewhat sheepishly explained Judah?s piqu? but no one understands why the Brooklyn fighter isn?t just giving the silent treatment to the lads from Sky.
