Foreman vs. Wolak on Saturday, 3/5: This could be a bad mistake for Yuri

By Boxing News - 03/01/2011 - Comments

By Dan Ambrose: You really hate to see fighters make stupid mistakes. This is why it might turn out to be a really bad decision for former WBA junior middleweight champion Yuri Foreman (28-1, 8 KO’s) to be taking on pressure fighter Pawel Wolak (28-1, 18 KO’s) on Saturday night at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Foreman-Wolak fight will be taking place on the undercard of the Miguel Cotto vs. Ricardo Mayorga fight.

You have to figure that the winner of the Foreman vs. Wolak fight will be put in with Cotto, if he wins, or Antonio Margarito at some point in the not too distant future. The Foreman vs. Wolak fight will get a lot of visibility being on the Cotto-Mayorga undercard, and their promoter Bob Arum is likely going to want to put that winner in with Cotto or Margarito soon because they all fight for the same Top Rank promotional company.

Foreman, though, really needed to take on a lesser guy than Wolak because Foreman is coming off of serious knee surgery after his loss to Cotto last June. Foreman tore up his already injured right knee and with the kind of major knee surgery that Foreman went through, you’d like to have seen him face a guy that doesn’t put the kind of pressure on him that he’ll be facing from Wolak on Saturday. Wolak is like a light version of Cotto in terms of pressure. He may not have the same kind of power that Cotto possesses, but he just keeps coming forward all the time looking to land shots. He doesn’t give his opponents any rest and that’s not a good thing. I can picture Foreman re-injuring his bad knee in this fight and ending up hobbling around like he was in the Cotto fight until he gets stopped.



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