Truly, we are in the golden age of the micro-broadcast. Yuri Foreman, the Orthodox rabbi-in-training and former boxing champ, is on the comeback trail — and he thanks his fellow Jews for inspiring him. At a press conference last week, Jewish boxing phenom Yuri Foreman discussed plans for his upcoming championship bout against three-time world titleholder Miguel Cotto.
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email. Yuri Fights! Yuri Wins! Plans for a comeback fight were put off. Foreman kept working, kept hunting for a framework for a comeback that made sense. Another trusted team member, Ilya Mesishchev, helped him sift info. He found it, in Future Promotions, a boxing promotional company in Louisville, Kentucky.
In , he switched to the promotion side. On Dec. All those kids, at home, running about, while parents are trying to do Zoom calls, or sibling are doing half-ass babysitting…. You get the point, Shoshana has been doing her thing to keep kids from having to go to the ER. The foe was over the weight, so it was a super middleweight versus a middleweight. Ramos is very tough, durable. He had a hard punch.
He got the W, took a week off to rest, and then called matchmaker Harry Barnett, to talk about following up with another bout in short order. A date got selected, and some possible foes were discussed. A solid name got chosen. Jimmy Williams. I basically have come from nowhere to share the ring with a world champion. This is my world title fight!
This is going to be a great fight. Williams comes from the football field; he played cornerback at Southern Connecticut State University and was invited to several NFL tryout camps, coming close to making the cut with the Oakland Raiders. It was great getting calls from NFL scouts. I walked away from football for boxing. Sounds like he might be re-vitalized, like Foreman. He knows what he has to do. This is a great opportunity…He has a new trainer, Brian Johnson, and Jimmy has been driving back and forth from New Haven to Providence to train.
He deserves to have this opportunity. He thinks Foreman is looking past him, especially since he lost four of his last five. In his last outing, Williams met Esteban Villalba on December 5, and dropped a decision after six rounds. That trip to Mexico to fight Villalba changed my whole life. I just needed the confidence to know I fully recovered from the previous fight and could finally put it behind me.
But his life story began in Gomel, Belarus, then part of the Soviet Union, where he was born and started boxing after getting bullied in elementary school. On June 6 he spoke via Zoom to roughly supporters of the Jewish state during an Israel Bonds program hosted by Chabad houses across the country, including those in Pittsburgh.
After that fight, I realized I wanted to go to the United States. I wanted to be a world champion. In his new home in Haifa, Israel, Foreman continued to develop his nascent boxing skills at gyms in an Arab village where Russian immigrants would serve as trainers and mentors.
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