By Dave Lahr: On Saturday night, WBA junior middleweight champion Yuri Foreman (28-0, 8 KO’s)and Miguel Cotto (34-2, 27 KO’s) will be facing off for the first fight at Yankee Stadium since 1976, when Muhammad Ali and Ken Norton fought in a bout that that had a lot of meaning and excitement about it. The Foreman-Cotto fight, sadly, isn’t nearly the same fight in comparison. Cotto is coming off an knockout loss and Foreman has only fought a couple of top tier opponents during his career.

It’s a fight that is begging for a smaller auditorium rather than a huge stadium. It seems to highlight the lack of super stars in the sport more than anything. You know things are bad when you put a fighter that has just been knocked out and has been stopped in two out of his last four fights in a huge stadium and consider him the main draw in the fight. It just seems stranger than anything.

But it also shows that this fight is being aimed directly at the huge fan bases of Cotto and Foreman and not at the regular fan, because this is a fight that’s kind of hard to get really excited about. Foreman isn’t a really interesting fighter to watch, has little power, and hasn’t fought anyone to speak of, and that’s the problem.

You’ve got one big star facing an obscure fighter in a huge stadium that the promoter is saying will sell 30,000 tickets. Whether it does or it doesn’t, a stadium like this should be reserved for exciting fights against huge stars that are fighting well and not getting the living daylights beaten out of them. Or in the case of Foreman, have actually fought more than one or two high caliber fighters.

I don’t know if it’s just me, but this fight seems more like a Friday Night Fights type of bout rather than one that should be taking at the Yankee stadium. If you can get away with putting Foreman and Cotto in Yankee stadium and selling it out, more power to you, but it seems like a weird fight given the status of the two fighters.

And with the rumor that Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. will be fighting the winner of this fight, it’s pretty scary. I think the fight does have some mild interest in that Cotto could be fighting for the last time, because he could end up getting knocked out again and that would likely be the end of his career. But beyond that, I don’t what more sis interesting in this fight.