Boxing, tennis and mma

NEW YORK - JUNE 04: Yuri Foreman (L) and Miguel Cotto (R) pose for a photo during their weigh-in on June 4, 2010 at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx borough of New York City. Cotto and Foreman will fight at Yankee Stadium on June 5, 2010 (Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images)

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There was a boxing match between Miguel Cotto and Yuri Foreman that I missed. I wasn’t even aware of it till I saw the results. I will look for it online and watch it.

Rafael Nadal celebrating his straight-sets victory over Robin Soderling on Sunday at Roland Garros.

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The French Open finished today and one of my favorite players Rafael Nadal won. This will make it his fifth French Open. I think Nadal deserved to win and I am very happy for his success.

As for MMA, I don’t think any event aired this past weekend. Even though, I like to watch the sport, it has been overkill. It seems to be available every week but the quality has definitely gone down. UFC specifically is killing its brand and seems desperate to rake in the PPVs.

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dar, June 15, 2010:

here Ya go,slugger:
No Holds Barred: Charles Farrell on Cotto-Foreman and the Decline of New York
http://nhbnews.podOmatic.com/entry/2010-06-08T03_06_05-07_00

On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again speaks with our correspondent Charles Farrell about a bad boxing matchup with bad attendance in a big ballpark, and which was brutally blemished by bad officiating, bad announcing, and bad reporting, held in a big “hick town” known as New York.

That, of course, refers to the June 5 fight between Miguel Cotto and Yuri Foreman held in the new Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York. Cotto won by a TKO after referee Arthur Mercante finally stopped the fight in the ninth round, after Mercante refused to stop the fight one round earlier when the corner of Foreman, who was by then hobbling around on one leg, tried to end it by several methods.

We spoke Monday night and present our lengthy and cutting critique here in its entirety. We not only analyzed the many bad points of this fight and its promotion, but also tied it to the overall decline of New York, the home of many of the guilty parties in this debacle. We didn’t spare anybody, the promoters, HBO, the officials, and the media included. And as our guest philosopher, Jerome Lester Horwitz, explained, “Truth is stranger than fiction.”