Sugar Shane Mosley's fight with Zab Judah on May 31 was canceled Thursday after Judah seriously injured his arm in an accidental fall.
Judah (36-5, 25 KOs), the former undisputed welterweight champion hoping for a career comeback, severely cut his right forearm and needed 50 stitches to close the wounds, which will keep him out of training for four weeks.
``It is very unfortunate that Zab suffered this injury and that this great event had to be canceled,'' Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer said. ``We are already in discussions with all parties involved to attempt to reschedule the fight for the near future.''
Mosley (44-5, 37 KOs), the respected former three-division champion, lost a competitive unanimous decision to Miguel Cotto in his last fight on Nov. 10. When he couldn't nail down a rematch with WBA champion Cotto, Mosley settled for Judah in a non-title bout at the Mandalay Bay Event Center in Las Vegas.
Judah had been animated in the public build-up to the fight, offering to bet Mosley $100,000 on the fight's outcome and later pushing out a wheelchair for the 36-year-old star at the Bernard Hopkins-Joe Calzaghe weigh-in last month. Judah also called for pre-fight blood testing for Mosley, who admitted taking steroids before a 2003 bout but claimed it was inadvertent.
Judah hasn't fought in Nevada since April 2006, when his series of low blows in a unanimous-decision loss to Floyd Mayweather Jr. caused a melee in the ring involving both fighters' trainers and entourages. Judah was fined $250,000, while Yoel Judah, his father and trainer who traded punches with Mayweather's uncle and trainer, Roger, was fined $100,000.
