Miguel Cotto vs. Yuri Foreman, billed as Stadium Slugfest, was a boxing super welterweight fight for the WBA Super Welterweight championship. The bout was held on June 5, 2010, at Yankee Stadium, in New York City, United States. Cotto won the fight via technical knockout in the ninth round.

Cotto, a three time world champion, was coming from a TKO loss at Welterweight to Manny Pacquiao. After the fight the Puerto Rican moved up to the Junior Middleweight division to challenge Foreman for his WBA title. At the other side, the Israeli fighter was coming from a win against Daniel Santos.

The fight also showcased the return of boxing to The Bronx. It was the first big match in the area since September 1976, when Muhammad Ali outpointed Ken Norton in the first Yankee Stadium.

Immediately after the fight against Joshua Clottey, negotiations began to pursue a contest against Manny Pacquiao. Even before Pacquiao defeated Ricky Hatton, Bob Arum, who represents both Cotto and Pacquiao, stated that he was interested in this matchup. Subsequently, Pacquiao expressed interest in fighting Cotto. The fight was sanctioned as a world title fight in the welterweight division, where the weight limit is 147 pounds, however Cotto’s camp agreed to fight at a catchweight of 145 pounds to accommodate Pacquiao’s smaller physique. Cotto’s camp also conceded the larger share of the purse to Pacquiao, who received a 65% share of pay-per-view buys, compared to Cotto’s 35% share.

On November 14, 2009, Pacquiao defeated Cotto by TKO 55 seconds into the 12th round, dethroning Cotto as a WBO welterweight champion. The fight generated 1.25 million buys and 70 million dollars in domestic pay-per-view revenue, making it the most watched boxing event of 2009. Pacquiao earned around 22 million dollars for his part in the fight, whilst Cotto earned around 12 million dollars. Pacquiao-Cotto also generated a live gate of $8,847,550 from an official crowd of 15,930.

On November 14, 2009, Foreman defeated Daniel Santos by a 12-round unanimous decision to become the new WBA super welterweight champion and Israel’s first WBA champion. He also became Israel’s second world boxing champion, following about a month after Hagar Finer won the Women’s International Boxing Federation bantamweight world championship.

In early January 2010, Foreman began talks with Bob Arum to arrange for himself and Filipino boxer seven-division world champion Manny Pacquiao, to meet on March 13, 2010. However, Pacquiao rejected the offer.

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❌”I was READY TO QUIT‼️” | 🥊Hatton vs Tszyu | 📆21st Anniversary |

When Ricky ‘The Hitman’ Hatton sat down with Sky Sports’ Adam Smith & Johnny Nelson on their Ringside show in 2015, he revealed that he was ready to quit SECONDS before his opponent, Kostya Tszyu did.

His trainer, Billy Graham, talked him out of it and moments later Ricky would become IBF World Champion.

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Arthur Mecante Jr. defied the orders of Yuri Foreman’s corner #OnThisDay in 2010. WBA Light-Middleweight champ, Foreman, …

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Ricky Hatton vs. Paulie Malignaggi, billed as the Power vs. Precision, was a boxing light welterweight match-up for the IBO and The Ring titles that was held on November 22, 2008 at the MGM Grand Las Vegas.

Ricky Hatton had been at the top of the rankings since his victory over Kostya Tszyu and followed up with wins over Juan Urango, José Luis Castillo and Juan Lazcano. Malignaggi was the former IBF champion who had beaten the likes of Herman NGoudjo and Lovemore N’Dou.

Both of the fighters fought on the same bill in Manchester, England at Hatton’s Homecoming fight at the City of Manchester Stadium following his loss to Floyd Mayweather Jr., Hatton winning a unanimous decision against Juan Lazcano and Malignaggi winning a split decision against Lovermore N’Dou. During Malignaggi’s fight he had to get a haircut in between the rounds.

Another Major event that preceded the fight was the firing of long term trainer Billy Graham by Hatton and employing Floyd Mayweather Sr., father of the only man to beat him, at that time, into his corner. Malignaggi’s trainer Buddy McGirt remained adamant that Hatton was past his best and insisted Malignaggi would beat him. Hatton did admit that if he was beaten he would retire.

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Anthony Joshua vs. Dominic Breazeale was a professional boxing match contested on 25 June 2016, for the IBF heavyweight …

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