Foreman requires knee op

Former champion facing career-threatening surgery

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Foreman requires knee op

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Yuri Foreman will undergo surgery on a knee injury that he aggravated during his defeat to Miguel Angel Cotto at the weekend.

The budding rabbi has been carrying the problem for most of his career and, as usual, was wearing a brace on the problematic right knee in his defence of the WBA light-middleweight title.

The knee gave way in the seventh round but the brave Israeli continued until the ninth after overturning his corner's decision to call the fight off.

It was a body shot from Cotto that eventually ended the contest but in the long term it is the knee that will cause the 29-year-old most concern, after suffering a torn cartilage and strained ligaments in the fight.

"I will need surgery and I don't know yet how big it is," he said. "I'm going to find out soon, probably in the next day or two."

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