round." In December 2007 Greenberg underwent a hand operation to repair an injury to the second and third metacarpals of his right hand. Greenberg lost his first bout against heavyweight contender Cedric Boswell (28–1; 22 KOs) in August 2008. He lost via TKO in the second round, after taking numerous punches from Boswell, who won for the 28th time in 29 fights, and is looking for a title bout opportunity. In June 2009, he was ranked 53rd in the International Boxing Organization's heavyweight computerized rankings. Of those ahead of him, only two were younger than he is. Greenberg has not fought in the ring after his loss to Boswell. Jewish heritage Greenberg was one of three top Jewish boxers in January 2009, the others being Dmitry Salita junior welterweight (29–0–1) and Yuri Foreman, the middleweight (30–1–2). See also Sport in Israel List of select Jewish boxers References External links British Boxing bio "Interview: Roman Greenberg" "Jewish Boxers are Back in the News" World juniors 2000 Professional photographs of Roman Greenberg in action 1982 births Living people Heavyweight boxers Israeli expatriates in England Israeli people of Moldovan-Jewish descent Jewish boxers Jewish Israeli sportspeople Moldovan emigrants to Israel Moldovan Jews Soviet emigrants to Israel Soviet Jews Sportspeople from Bălți World boxing champions Israeli male boxers