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Mazel Tov Yuri, Israel's First World Champion

Last night's Miguel Cotto-Manny Pacquiao title match was being hailed as the return of boxing for the press attention it drew and the number of celebrities who attended the fight.  The early rounds didn't disappoint but after Pacquiao dropped Cotto in the fourth round, Cotto was never the same and Pacquaio hammered him relentlessly until the fight was stopped at 55 seconds of the 12th round.  Pacquaio cemented his reputation as pound for pound the best boxer in the world and captured his seventh title in seven weight classes.

The undercard featured a WBA super-welterweight bout between Daniel Santos and Yuri Foreman, an Orthdox rabbinical student, who came into the fight with an unblemished record of 28-0, with 8 knockouts.  Foreman won a one-sided, unanimous decision becoming the first Israeli to hold a world championship in any boxing weight class and undoubtedly the first rabbi or rabbinical student to hold a belt.  Foreman led by at least six points on all three judge's cards, two had it 117-109, one had it 116-110.  In last week's run-up to the fight, the New York Times did a nice feature piece on Foreman, which you can read here.

Full post as published by Sports Biz on November 15, 2009 (boomark / email).