Yankee Stadium set to host bout
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April 11, 2010, Sunday
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Yankee Stadium will welcome boxing back to the baseball field for the first time in over 30 years when it hosts a world championship bout in June that features an aspiring rabbi, officials said on Friday.
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.
It will mark the first non-baseball event to be held in the US$1.5 billion stadium that opened last year as the new home of Major League Baseball's New York Yankees.
The last fight in old Yankee Stadium, built across the street in 1923 and now being demolished, was in 1976 when Muhammad Ali defeated Ken Norton.
Foreman, 29, who emigrated to Israel and now lives in Brooklyn, is an aspiring rabbi.
After beating Puerto Rican Daniel Santos in November to become Israel's first world boxing champion, Foreman said he objected to suggestions from trainers to take easy fights.
"I said no, to be a world champion it's not fighting just easy fights, it's actually fighting another world champion," Foreman told reporters at Yankee Stadium.
Cotto, 29, popular in his native Puerto Rico, lost his WBO welterweight title to Filipino Manny Pacquiao when their November fight was stopped in the final round.
The June 5 fight against Foreman will mark Cotto's first with trainer Emanuel Steward, who has trained several top fighters, including Thomas Hearns and Wladimir Klitschko.
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.
It will mark the first non-baseball event to be held in the US$1.5 billion stadium that opened last year as the new home of Major League Baseball's New York Yankees.
The last fight in old Yankee Stadium, built across the street in 1923 and now being demolished, was in 1976 when Muhammad Ali defeated Ken Norton.
Foreman, 29, who emigrated to Israel and now lives in Brooklyn, is an aspiring rabbi.
After beating Puerto Rican Daniel Santos in November to become Israel's first world boxing champion, Foreman said he objected to suggestions from trainers to take easy fights.
"I said no, to be a world champion it's not fighting just easy fights, it's actually fighting another world champion," Foreman told reporters at Yankee Stadium.
Cotto, 29, popular in his native Puerto Rico, lost his WBO welterweight title to Filipino Manny Pacquiao when their November fight was stopped in the final round.
The June 5 fight against Foreman will mark Cotto's first with trainer Emanuel Steward, who has trained several top fighters, including Thomas Hearns and Wladimir Klitschko.
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