POTD

Miguel Cotto beat Yuri Foreman last night in Yankee Stadium for the World Boxing Association super welterweight title.

Cotto was beating Foreman pretty definitively anyway, but then Foreman's old knee injury crippled him and didn't let him fight his fight. His knee locked up a couple times and he fell over a couple times from it.

Some of my thoughts regarding the bout:

1. I have now watched 2 religious Jews box in the past year. Both were title matches. Both times the Jews lost. Maybe Jews should not be boxing.
2. Maybe it is my fault, as both times I watched boxing, the guy I was rooting for lost.
3. Both bouts were on Saturday nights. Maybe Jews who box should eat a little bit less cholent at the kiddush on Shabbos day.. Just sayin..
4. The knee injuries are tougher on the Jews than being pounded on by opponents.. Very typically Jewish
5. At first it was thought that Foreman tripped over a camera jutting in (and that caused the knee injury), as his knee first buckled and he fell over when prancing around the side of the ring where the cameramen stand - my thought at the time was the Jewish boxer was beaten by a photographer. Then it became known that it was simply his knee buckling and not the fault of any photographer, and it made even more sense. What Jewish guy playing sports doesn't suffer from knee trouble?
   

Very strangely, while Yuri Foreman is a religious Jew and a rabbinical student, Miguel Cotto is the one who sports a tattoo with the symbol of the OU - the Orhodox Union - on his right collarbone (left in the picture above) (and this is why it makes "picture of the day").

I guess the OU could not advertise on Foreman because he is a religious Jew and would not tattoo the symbol on his collarbone, so they chose Cotto instead.

It turns out that Cotto is not kosher, despite the hechsher of the OU displayed prominently, but he is a nice guy. While details are sketchy, he got the tat to honor a Jewish friend of his. Now that he beat Yuri, I think he qualifies for a Bada"tz and not just an OU.