Floyd Mayweather and Zab Judah were 'sworn enemies' whose fight descended into farce

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Already a three-weight world champion by 2006, Floyd Mayweather secured a suitably high-profile opponent for his 36th professional fight in the brash, trash-talking Brooklyner Zab Judah.

Judah had lost three times in the paid ranks, to Kostya Tszyu, Cory Spinks and Caros Manuel Baldomir and faced a huge challenge against Mayweather.

Despite a build-up that did not go entirely to plan, the bout attained enormous billing, and was destined to live up to its 'Sworn Enemies' hype tag - but perhaps not in the way that had initially been envisaged.

Here, we look back at fight which took place on this day 14 years ago... The build-up Moving up to challenge Judah for a world title at a fourth different weight was a match made in heaven for