News - Yuri Foreman

Top Rank today won a purse bid to promote the WBA super welterweight championship defense of Daniel Santos against mandatory challenger Yuri Foreman at the WBA office in Panama City, Panama. Top Rank’s Carl Moretti presented the winning (and only) bid of $165,000. Possible dates and sites are November 14th on the Pacquiao-Cotto super card in Las Vegas, or December 5th in either New York City or Atlantic City read more ...

Former world champion Jorge ‘Travieso’ Arce of Mexico is heading to Atlantic City, N.J. Arce will take on Fernando Lumacad of the Philippines on Top Rank’s Latin Fury 9′ championship boxing event at the Boardwalk Hall. Caesars Atlantic City is hosting. The Arce vs. Lumacad super flyweight fight will replace the Fernando Montiel vs. Eric Morel title fight. Montiel, the WBO bantamweight champion from Mexico, is out with a hand injury read more ...

Undefeated Yuri Foreman (24-0, 8 KOs) survived some early problems and a bad cut over his right eye to dethrone NABF junior middleweight champion Andrey Tsurkan (25-3, 16 KOs) on Thursday night at Utopia's Paradise Theater in the Bronx, New York City. The aggressive Tsurkan had the fight going his way through four rounds, but was unable to catch the fleet-footed Foreman thereafter, as Foreman jabbed his way to read more ...

Promoters Lou DiBella and Joe DeGuardia have announced they are teaming up with Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum and Top Rank, to promote the latest installment of "Punchin' at The Paradise." The Thursday, December 6 card features Andrey Tsurkan (25-2, 16 KO's) of Bronxville, N.Y., against Yuri Foreman (23-0, 8 KO's) of Brooklyn read more ...