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Boxing promoters love to match their young buck with an established yet beatable veteran 'name' and so it is that Zab Judah plays the supposedly amiable dance partner to Amir Khan in this weekend's Vegas showdown. The trouble with the analogy is that Judah (5.3) doesn't easily fit the mould of ageing has-been. The Brooklynite has always been a volatile character, flawed in many ways but talented, dangerous and it seems, a re-discovered man. Or perhaps he's just grown up. There is no doubt that Judah's relationship with Main Events under the paternal eye of Kathy Duva and his partnership with the excellent Pernell Whitaker as coach have been significant. Judah hasn't been transformed by them but his career has been resurrected. In 2006-07 the New Yorker was losing big fights to Carlos...