NEW YORK — Junior middleweight champ Yuri Foreman says he won’t let anything distract him from his fight against Miguel Cotto on Saturday night.
That’s not necessarily as easy as it sounds.
It will be the first fight at the new Yankee Stadium, headline a card televised by HBO, and come just hours after [...]
The rich grass of the Yankees’ playing field in the background almost glowed. Those involved in the fight who sat facing the throng of reporters were so happy that this fight is happening that they almost shined as much as the lush greenery of the infield. Both competitors looked eager as did their teams. Both [...]
NEW YORK – The well-worn names of Muhammad Ali and Ken Norton have been replaced by Miguel Cotto and Yuri Foreman, and the ballpark where they once fought stands as a shell of its former self just across the street.
Still, boxing is back at Yankee Stadium after more than three decades.
The dream of Hall of [...]
The “Stadium Slugfest” will feature WBA super welterweight champion Yuri Foreman (28-0-0, 8 KOs) of Belarus against former title holder Miguel Cotto (34-2-0, 27 KOs) of Puerto Rico in a ring at right-center field with a canopy above.
It will mark the first non-baseball event to be held in the $1.5 billion stadium that opened last [...]
WAYNE — Yuri Foreman will work out today at the Joe Grier Boxing Academy in Paterson, right where Grier is certain the super welterweight world champion belongs as he begins training camp for the biggest fight of his career.
Speculation swirled recently regarding renowned trainer Emanuel Steward joining Foreman’s team. Murray Wilson, Foreman’s manager, told boxingscene.com [...]
BoxingScene.com reports this evening that all the talk has come to a finality, and that it’s official: the legendary Emanuel Steward will serve as Miguel Cotto’s lead trainer for his June 5 fight against Yuri Foreman at Yankee Stadium.
The two teams will appear at Yankee Stadium next Friday for a press conference, and Steward is [...]
In a fight that is effectively for the bragging rights of New York, former World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Miguel Cotto (34-2, 27 KO’s) will be stepping up in weight to take on WBA light middleweight champion Yuri Foreman (28-0, 8 KO’s) on June 5th, at the Yankee Stadium, in the Bronx, New York. The [...]
“People are used to watching pretty good fights from Miguel Cotto and it’s going to be the same. I’m going to be prepared for Yuri Foreman and I will bring a good show. I will come to fight and bring a good fight for all of the fans all over the world… I will fight [...]
Although his next bout isn’t scheduled until June, it appears former welterweight champion Miguel Cotto is already back in the gym. Cotto, a two-division world champion in boxing and still one of the top welterweights in the world, stepped inside of a cage to spar with elite mixed martial artist and former WEC bantamweight champion [...]
World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (50-3-2, 38 KO’s) would like to win an 8th world title in as many divisions before he gets out of boxing in the not too distant future. Fellow Top Rank fighter Miguel Cotto (34-2, 27 KO’s), who Pacquiao defeated in November by a 12th round TKO, is moving [...]
On June 12th, Miguel Cotto (34-2, 27 KO’s) will be facing World Boxing Association light middleweight champion Yuri Foreman (28-0, 8 KO’s) in a fight that pits the well known Cotto against Foreman, a fighter that few people aside from hardcore boxing fans have ever heard of. Both Cotto and Foreman fight for Top Rank [...]