Miguel Angel Cotto vs. Yuri Foreman

Miguel Angel Cotto vs. Yuri Foreman

W.B.C international light middleweight title

Saturday June 5 2010

Yankee Stadium, NYC, New York, USA

HBO Boxing

Former WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto (34-2, 27 KO’s) of Caguas, Puerto Rico and undefeated WBA 154 pound champion Yuri Foreman (28-0-0, 8 KOs) of Brooklyn,New York on Saturday, June 5, 2010 at Yankee Stadium. Cotto has fought Joshua Clottey (2009), Zab Judah (2007), Paulie Malignaggi (2006), and Muhammad Abdullaev (2005) in the month of June in recent years.

The fight will be contested for Foreman's WBA World light middleweight title. Yuri Foreman, 28-0, 8 KO’s, is coming off an impressive 12-round decision over Daniel Santos (32-4-1, 23 KOs) as a 2-1 underdog to capture the W.B.A title on November 14, 2009, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Can the Israeli Foreman rise to the occasion against the toughest opponent of his career?

Miguel Cotto is on the comeback trail as he tries to reclaim a portion of the welterweight title. Miguel Cotto in his last four fights and is coming off a 12th round KO loss to Manny Pacquiao as a 2-1 boxing betting underdog. Miguel Cotto has also joined forces wilth of Hall-of-famer Emanuel Steward as head trainer for his upcoming fight and is out to prove that he is still an elite fighter.

However, there are some people who think that Cotto is going after Foreman, a fighter that few boxing fans have heard of, because Cotto can use the WBA light middleweight title as title bait for Manny Pacquiao, who into collecting titles for some reason and might want a chance to pick up an eighth world title.

The stadium, which is normally used to house the New York Yankees baseball team, will be retrofitted to fit “between 30,000 and 35,000 boxing fans. The last time a boxing match was held at Yankee Stadium was way back in September 1976, in a fight that matched Ken Norton vs. Muhammad Ali. That fight, too, was promoted by Bob Arum of Top Rank.

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Cotto vs Foreman Fight Results

Miguel Cotto, fighting before a nationalistic and electrified crowd of supporters waving Puerto Rican flags, stopped WBA super welterweight champion Yuri Foreman, who had his own sizable Jewish cheering section, with a crushing body shot that dropped the champion at 42 seconds of the ninth round, and referee Arthur Mercante Jr. stopped it. With his new title, Cotto became a four-time world champion, in his third weight division.

But Cotto thought he had won the fight in the previous round when Foreman's trainer, Joe Grier, threw in the towel after his fighter, limping badly, had injured his knee. The fight appeared stopped in that eighth round, the ring filled with people and Cotto celebrated his return as a champion.

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