Tyson Fury is and has been for a while, a household name here in the UK, and Top Rank boss Bob Arum aims to do the same for the reigning lineal heavyweight champ in the U.S.
Bob Arum has been the reference for the boxing world from the 20th century to now, going into 2020, but is his vision what it once was?
Promoter Bob Arum, talking with ESPN, has confirmed the date for Terence Crawford’s next fight. The reigning WBO welterweight champ and pound-for-pound entrant will fight again on April 20th but so far this is pretty much all we know – we must wait for official confirmation regarding the opponent and the venue of the fight.
Bob Arum doesn’t hold his tongue for anyone, nor does he hold it when talking about anyone. The latest case in point: the Top Rank boss’ opinion of the powerful yet secretive Al Haymon.
Top Rank promoter Bob Arum says Manny Pacquiao has absolutely no interest in facing welterweight contender Terence ‘Bud’ Crawford. Arum says the fight Pacquiao (59-7-2, 38 KOs) wants is against WBA lightweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko.
Former four-weight titlist Adrien Broner is a strange type of a guy; a man who perplexes many. One of them is promoter Bob Arum.
If he wins on Saturday night – and most fight fans expect him to win – Vasyl Lomachenko will, in just 12 pro bouts, have conquered three different weight divisions; or at the very least, he will have won world titles at three different weights.
With his first defense of his WBA ‘regular’ middleweight title successfully out of the way after stopping 38-year-old Italian Emanuele Blandamura (27-3, 5 KOs) in the 8th round last Sunday, Ryota Murata (14-1, 11 KOs) is now targeting IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady ‘GGG’ Golovkin (37-0-1, 33 KOs) for a unification fight later this year.
Two weeks today, in Cardiff, Wales, before yet another massive crowd the kind of which British heavyweight superstar Anthony Joshua is now routinely pulling in, fans will witness a three-belt heavyweight unification showdown.
Top Rank promoter Bob Arum is already looking past his fighter Vasyl ‘Hi-Tech’ Lomachenko’s fight against Guillermo Rigondeaux this weekend towards a rematch between Lomachenko and Orlando Salido.