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To Yuri Foreman, right, and Miguel Cotto go the honor of headlining the first boxing event in the new Yankee Stadium — provided plans for a scheduled bar mitzvah don’t interfere. The two fighters will meet for Foreman’s WBA light-middleweight title June 5 if details of the agreement can be worked out. Considering Foreman is studying to be a rabbi at a Brooklyn synagogue, perhaps he can mediate a solution. “We need a wise old man with a long flowing white beard and a Bible in one hand,” publicist Dovid Efune said. “. . . It would be the greatest Jewish sporting event of all time since David versus Goliath.”
