Bob Arum
Bob Arum
Robert "Bob" Arumis an American lawyer, boxing promoter and businessman. He is the founder and CEO of Top Rank, a professional boxing promotion company based in Las Vegas. He also worked for the US Attorney's Office for the southern district of New York in the tax division during his legal career before moving into boxing promotion...
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth8 December 1931
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Yesterday I was lying, today I am telling the truth.
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I think the public now is beginning to appreciate this man's talent. As the most talented fighter in the world, he will be in a position to be the biggest attraction and make the most money. I think one thing will naturally follow the other, as long as -- as he said -- is cooperative with the media and knows and understands promotion. The sky's the limit.
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Yeah, I know but he won that fight easy.
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We believed (similar) fights had been wrongly marketed, to some extent. Urban audiences, African-American audiences weren't getting the attention they deserved.
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A lot of times, we'll be promoting a big event and someone on my staff gets nervous and I just laugh at them. Nothing -- trust me, there is no way -- that anything will ever be as tough as that. Everything has been easy since that one.
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They're out of their minds. Who do they think they are? This is totally inappropriate. What they've done highlights the fact they're an organization that has absolutely no credibility.
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The one criticism I have about Don is that he doesn't have any restraint. You make a buck, but it doesn't have to be your last buck.
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James was, and is, very proud of his skills. He's so intelligent, he loves to fight; most guys today in boxing don't love to fight. They fight to get the money. James loves to be in the ring; that's where he feels the most comfortable. So there was always pressure on us when he was fighting for us to get him a fight, even if it was a low money fight.
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(Judah) will probably put up a much better fight because he's fighting for his life, in effect, than if he had just won a victory over Baldomir.
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He made a mistake by going into the ring, but it was his nephew, and this hooligan (Judah) -- that's what he is, a hooligan -- committed these very flagrant fouls.
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I have never seen a period of time when the heavyweight championship meant so little. It's clear.
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After that, it's been a piece of cake.
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After the (Leon) Spinks loss (in February 1978), I asked him to promise me that he would never fight again.
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It's not completely finalized, but I talked with Steve (Wednesday) and he has given me a proxy to go ahead. It's not really 'official' official, but the building is on hold, and we've got the date (from Showtime), so we're just about there.