By Chris Williams: The June 12th fight between World Boxing Association light middleweight champion Yuri Foreman (28-0, 8 KO’s) and former WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto (34-2, 27 KO’s) could be moved to the Yankee Stadium, in New York City, according to the Los Angeles Times. Top Rank promoter Bob Arum, who promotes both Foreman and Cotto, is looking to move the fight from the Madison Square Garden, in New York, to the much bigger Yankee Stadium. Obviously Arum smells more money in moving the fight.

The date of the fight would have to change to either June 5th or June 26th, because the Yankee Stadium is being used on June 12th by the New York Yankees baseball team. Foreman’s publicist Dovid Efune thinks the Cotto-Foreman fight will big, especially among the Jewish community in New York. The fight may be of big interest in the New York area.

However, it’s unlikely to draw much interest away from the East Coast, as few casual boxing fans have any idea who Foreman is despite the fact that he has a flashy 28-0 record. Most of the wins have come against 2nd tier opposition, though, and Foreman’s hit and run style of fighting is off putting for some boxing fans. Additionally, some fans see Foreman as a paper champion, and feel that Cotto is moving up in weight from the welterweight division to try and pick up an empty title add to his fight resume.

Whatever the case, Foreman might be a good opponent for Cotto right now if Miguel can figure out a way to deal with Foreman’s constant clinching and running style of fighting. It won’t be easy for Cotto, because Foreman isn’t easy to hit because he runs after hitting his opponents and grabs them when they get close to him.

It’s a style of fighting that has been used by John Ruiz and Bernard Hopkins to some extent with great effectiveness. Foreman doesn’t need a lot of power to win with a style like this because his legs does a lot of the work for him by keep him out of harm’s way. And when you add to that Foreman’s tendency to dive in head first and grab his opponents for a clinch after hitting them, it makes him very hard to beat.

Cotto could end up looking really silly and losing badly. Foreman will have a four inch height advantage over the 5’7” Cotto. And that alone will make it tough on Cotto. However, at least Cotto won’t have to worry about being knocked out in this fight. Cotto has taken a beating in three of his fights against Antonio Margarito, Joshua Clottey and Manny Pacquiao in the past two years, and this fight will at least give Cotto a rest from taking a lot of punishment.

Cotto could end up getting badly cut from Foreman, though, because with his head first style of fighting it’s resulted in bad head butts occurring in his last two fights. Whether Cotto wins or loses, it’s doubtful he’ll look good in this fight. Foreman has a way of making many of his opponents look bad.

Its unclear how many fans would show up for this fight? Yankee Stadium is huge, and it might look a little odd if only 10,000 fans show up to a stadium that seats 50,000.