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June 16, 2010
Many boxing experts, including Teddy Atlas, were confident that Yuri Foreman would beat Miguel Cotto at Yankee Stadium. But that did not happen. Miguel Cotto did a great job of destroying Foreman, and showed the boxing world that his picture will soon be in The Boxing Hall of Fame. I would like to congratulate the new World Champion Miguel Cotto, and his coach Emanuel Steward!
“What happened to Yuri Foreman?” Many journalists and friends have asked me this question since the fight happened.
The answer is very simple. I, Michael Kozlowski, carefully built Yuri Foreman from a cowardly boy into a fighter in the ring.
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 May 30. 2010.
The finals of the international amateur boxing tournament, "Prise of Serik Konakbaev" were held on May 22, 2010 in Aktobe City, Republic of Kazakhstan. Jeremi Fiorentino (USA) lost in a very impressive, close fight to a Russian boxer, Kamil Musaev, 7:4 in the 69 kg (152 lb) weight category. After winning three consecutive fights, Jeremy Fiorentino became the silver medalist of this very prestigious international tournament in Kazakhstan. Also participating in this tournament were many future 2012 Olympians. Bakhyt Sarsekbayev, 2008 Olympic Champion, was in attendance and one of the first to congratulate the young American fighter for winning the silver medal.
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 7:00 AM: April 25th, 2010
A few minutes ago I drank one glass of carrot and apple juice! I was very happy to drink this juice because it was my first portion of food after my annual ten days and eleven nights of fasting. Ten days and eleven nights with no eating and drinking only distilled water are finally over!
It was not easy. If I got up from my bed too quickly I felt a little dizzy on some mornings. I had to work every day at my job to pay my bills and then go to the boxing gym to train my fighters at night.
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 April 10, 2010
Today at Gleasons GYM former World Champion Paulie Malignaggi spares with several of my students In preparation for his May 15th scheduled world title fight at Madison Square Garden. Team Malignaggi selected my boxers because of their similar fight styles to current WBA World Champion Amir Khan.
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 On March 25th, 2010, history was made in Madison Square Garden. In the boxing Mecca of the World, Shemuel Pagan defeated Carlos Teron to win his fifth New York Daily News Golden Gloves Championship. Pagan became the second boxer in the history of the prestigious tournament to win five Championships.
The famous tournament is 83 years old, and the only other boxer to win the Golden Gloves five times was the great Mark Breland. Breland was the Olympic Champion of 1984 and later the Professional Welterweight Champion of the World.
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March 7, 2010
 Many friends and journalists who I see in Gleason’s Gym often ask me for my opinion about the upcoming fight between Miguel Cotto and my former boxer, Yuri Foreman. Everybody is surprised when I say that it will be an easy fight for Yuri unless Cotto makes the right changes to his team. At this point, Cotto needs a coach who understands the finer points of the Russian style of boxing.
Let’s ask ourselves, “Who is Yuri Foreman?” Coach Michael Kozlowski made him into a boxing machine much like the Russian gun engineer, Mikhail Kalashnikov, who invented the “AK 47” - a gun that works in anyone’s hands. Similarly, Russian coach Michael (Mikhail) Kozlowski developed Yuri Foreman’s boxing style to operate the same way no matter which coach works his corner - from the great Emanuel Steward to a new coach stepping into the ring for the first time. Foreman’s style will be enough to beat a faded Cotto…
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December 24, 2009. Gleason’s Gym closed at 4pm on Christmas Eve, so I came early to train my heavy weight prospect (born in Poland) Kasper Czajkowski for the upcoming New York Golden Gloves. As I entered the gym, Yuri Foreman was sitting with his wife in one of the four boxing rings at Gleason’s. I put my coat in my locker and then approached Foreman for the first time in many years.
Eventhough Foreman was surprised that I would speak to him after the incident where he reported me to the FBI, he happily accepted my congratulations for his recent victory over Daniel Santos for the WBA title. I then confronted him about his quote in the New York Times regarding my decision to leave my family. I asked him why he failed to mention that he had been arrested in Israel at this time and that it was me who kept him from going to prison by giving him refuge in the United States. Foreman basically said that it was all such a long time ago it didn’t matter anymore.
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Mike,
CONGRATULATIONS, you made another world champion
in Yuri Foreman, It was clear that this was your technique,
you deserve all credit for his sucsess.
Billy ( England ) |
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 May 7, 2009 Rochester, New York
Ruslan Khayrtdinov (2-0-0) who came from Moscow to train with me two months ago, defeated a local fighter, Dwayne Hardaway (0-0-1) in his American debut.
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 Congratulations!!!
Luke Campbell becomes 2008 European Champion!
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 May, 2008
If you come to a new country with the ambition of becoming a world level professional boxing coach competing with coaches who are originally from here, you have to always be in good shape. You have no time to be sick, especially in America where medical insurance is so expensive...
On May 25th, I finished my annual 10 days of fasting.
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 Congratulations !!! Luke Campbell 2008 boxing Champion of England !!!
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 April 13, 2008, New York
On April 13, 2008, I went to LaGuardia Airport to get my new student, Billy Dawson, who just flew in from England. Both his father and grandfather were boxers.
The day after I got back from the Men’s Nationals in Colorado Springs, I unexpectedly met this determined young athlete while getting coffee in Starbucks next to Gleasons Gym. Two young men from England...
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 At this championship Shemuel Pagan (whom I train with his father, Robert Pagan) represented the PAL 132 lbs weight division.
It was obvious that Shemuel won his first bout against Connor Johnson, who represented the US Army (20:4) and next he beat Texan, Eric Fowler (24:13).
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 February, 2008 г, New York,USA
After attending the amateur boxing world championships in Chicago, November, 2007 Serik and I looked forward to meeting each other again in NYC in February, 2008.
Mark Breland and I have been friends since I came to America, so when I was sure Serik was coming to New York ...
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 This is the first World Championship where boxers who made it to the quarter finals became qualified for the 2008 Olympics Games in Beijing, China. Over one thousand boxers representing over more than one hundred countries showed up in Chicago to participate.
I had also hoped to participate more fully, but my student Shemuel Pagan, who I co-train with his father, Robert, lost in the semi final of the US Olympic trials.
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 September, 2007. After more than 12 years, I find myself in Moscow again. My daughter Valeria and I were chauffeured from the Sheremetyevo Airport to the hotel.
I saw Moscow has changed a lot over the years. On one hand it is still the capital of the Soviet Union that I remember from when I lived there. But in other ways, it has become much more western.
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 The U.S. Olympic Team Boxing Trials – Eighty-eight of the nation’s top amateur boxers competed for 11 coveted Olympic berths at the Olympic Trials, August 20-26, 2007.
Shemuel Pagan, bronze medalist of 2007 National Championship at 125 lbs, who I co-train with his father...
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