NY Times
Miguel Cotto, of Puerto Rico, left punches Yuri Foreman during the third round of a WBA light middleweight title match Saturday, June 5, 2010, at Yankee Stadium in New York. Cotto stopped Israel's Yuri Foreman in the ninth round Saturday night to win the junior middleweight title in the first fight at Yankee Stadium in more than three decades.
Fighting for his father, who died in January, and for his legion of Puerto Rican fans, Miguel Cotto won the first boxing match at the new Yankee Stadium on Saturday.
His victory came in bizarre fashion, after Yuri Foreman slipped in the seventh round and limped through the rest of the bout. Cotto won the fight twice, taking it for good 42 seconds into the ninth round. While Foreman carried on courageously, fighting and limping simultaneously, it was Cotto who left with the World Boxing Association super welterweight title belt.
Cotto Defeats Foreman in Yankees Stadium Boxing Match
NY Times
Miguel Cotto, of Puerto Rico, left punches Yuri Foreman during the third round of a WBA light middleweight title match Saturday, June 5, 2010, at Yankee Stadium in New York. Cotto stopped Israel’s Yuri Foreman in the ninth round Saturday night to win the junior middleweight title in the first fight at Yankee Stadium in more than three decades.
Fighting for his father, who died in January, and for his legion of Puerto Rican fans, Miguel Cotto won the first boxing match at the new Yankee Stadium on Saturday.
His victory came in bizarre fashion, after Yuri Foreman slipped in the seventh round and limped through the rest of the bout. Cotto won the fight twice, taking it for good 42 seconds into the ninth round. While Foreman carried on courageously, fighting and limping simultaneously, it was Cotto who left with the World Boxing Association super welterweight title belt.
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