Boxing is making its long-awaited return to Yankee Stadium, more
than three decades after the last fight at the ballpark in the
Bronx.
Junior middleweight champion Yuri Foreman and former
welterweight champ Miguel Cotto were introduced at a news
conference inside the stadium on Friday.
They'll meet June 5 in the first fight at the Yankees' home
stadium since Muhammad Ali and Ken Norton fought on Sept. 28, 1976,
at the original Yankee Stadium. That ballpark hosted 46 nights of
boxing during its 86-year run, including 30 world championship
bouts.
The Foreman-Cotto bout will be the first event besides
baseball in the opulent, new Yankee Stadium, which opened last
spring. College football games and concerts are also planned for
later in the year.
