Yahoo Profiles the Ever-Humble Yuri Foreman

Kevin Iole profiles YURI FOREMAN:

LAS VEGAS – A fighter’s “entourage” has been a part of boxing as long as gloves, a mouthpiece, shorts and a spit bucket. Fighters are legendary for surrounding themselves with a traveling herd larger than the population of many towns across America.

Muhammad Ali’s entourage became so renowned that brilliant writer Gary Smith did a profile of it in Sports Illustrated in 1988.

But for YURI FOREMAN, former world champion boxer and soon-to-be rabbi, there is no entourage. There isn’t even one other person with him.

YURI FOREMAN (above) earned respect in the ring after his never-say-quit performance vs. MIGUEL COTTO last summer.

He traveled to Las Vegas from his home in New York toting a battered, green suitcase that once belonged to his mother-in-law in Hungary. She gave it to her daughter, Foreman’s wife, Leyla Leidecker, who had long since lost track of it.

Leidecker was shocked when she discovered that her husband brought it with him to Las Vegas, where, on Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, he’ll fight PAWEL WOLAK in the co-main event of a Showtime pay-per-view card.

Foreman, though, doesn’t understand why it would make sense to ditch the old suitcase and buy a new one.

“What would be the point? I can put my clothes in it and bring them with me. It does the job it was intended to do. It’s perfectly fine.”

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