Brooklyn’s boxing rabbi is back
Foreman Will Return to Ring on Dec. 5 Barclays Bout Card
The most enduring image most boxing enthusiasts have of Yuri Foreman, Brooklyn’s brawling rabbi, comes from the night of June 5, 2010, in the first main event ever at the new Yankee Stadium.
Foreman, then the newly crowned WBA super welterweight champion, was fighting to hold on to that title on one leg after his right knee, already locked in an uncomfortable brace, buckled and left him virtually defenseless in the ring against future Hall of Famer Miguel Cotto, the only boxer of Puerto Rican descent to ever capture championships in four different weight classes.
Coming off his unanimous decision victory over Daniel Santos in Las Vegas the previous November, Foreman could have punched his ticket to superstardom and extended his reign as the first Orthodox Jew to hold a world title in boxing since Barney Ross in 1935 with a win over Cotto.