Yuri Foreman: record, next fight and profile →
Former college football star, super welterweight boxer Jimmy “Quiet Storm” Williams, recently defeated his first world champion, Yuri Foreman, and the veteran New Haven, Connecticut fighter’s boxing career has been revitalized.
The pain hasn’t gone away for Jimmy Williams. More than 12 years after the murder of his mother, Belinda, he’s resigned to the fact that it probably never will. (photo by Jared Sher)
On June 5, 2010, Yuri Foreman fought Miguel Cotto in Yankee Stadium. On June 19, 2021, Foreman will engage in the second fight of his comeback at the Buckhead Fight Club, located in a strip mall in Atlanta.
LAS VEGAS, NV - Erislandy Lara, the WBA/IBO 154-pound champion, scored two knockouts in his match against Yuri Foreman in Miami on Premier Championship Boxing on Spike TV last Friday night. One in the ring to retain his world titles and another in the ratings.
Photos of Erislandy Lara knocking Yuri Foreman out - MIAMI - Super welterweight world champion Erislandy Lara (24-2-2, 14 KOs) continued his reign as one of the top 154-pounders in the world and delivered a sensational knockout of former world champion Yuri Foreman (34-3, 10 KOs) in the main event of Premier Boxing Champions on Spike Friday night from Hialeah Park Racing and Casino in Miami
MIAMI - Super welterweight world champion Erislandy Lara (24-2-2, 14 KOs) continued his reign as one of the top 154-pounders in the world and delivered a sensational knockout of former world champion Yuri Foreman (34-3, 10 KOs) in the main event of Premier Boxing Champions on Spike Friday night from Hialeah Park Racing and Casino in Miami
Hialeah Park Racing and Casino in Miami - WBA, IBO super welterweight world champion Erislandy "The American Dream" Lara (24-2-2, 14 KOs) needed only four rounds to score a knockout over former world champion Yuri Foreman (34-3, 10 KOs) in the headline fight of Premier Boxing Champions on Spike.
Yuri Foreman’s title fight against Erislandy Lara on Friday night represents an opportunity, however daunting an assignment, to rejuvenate the former 154-pound champion’s career.
Erislandy Lara is used to being the boxer. He might have to be something he’s not used to being when he defends his junior middleweight world title on Friday night in Florida on Spike TV.
World Boxing Association super welterweight world champion Erislandy Lara is looking for a big win on Friday against ex-champ Yuri Foreman to springboard him to a unification bout and the middleweight ranks.