How will you remember Bob Arum when he dies?

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A greedy guy who could sign good talent and build stars

[Citizen Koba]

Bob who?

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He's done more for boxing than anyone on this website ever will.

[KidDinamita]

Arum will be remembered as a man who marinated everything, including his own death.

hahahaha been around forever

[Eff Pandas]

I don't really respect boxing promoters. TBH, they do a ****ty job.

Personally I feel like boxing has and always had a whole industry of leeches that do little to propel and a lot to take credit. Promotion is one of those.


What good did Arum bring?

No fooking doubt on the energy of this post.

Boxing seems to attract some of the worst mfers a young kid with talent & the ability to make a lot of money off of that talent could ever want to come across.

Promoters are definitely among them & idek how they are relevant for anything other than securing TV deals nowadays. Like why would you even sign to a promoter for more than one fight who didn't have a TV deal? You wouldn't or at least you shouldn't.

One of my big hopes is more fighters can control their own narrative & do deals themselves with platforms at all levels to avoid needing to whore themselves out to a multiple middlemen doing the same thing they can do & who's not looking out for their wellbeing at all. Mike Tyson recently suggesting all you need is a trainer & lawyer is more or less correct. You definitely don't need no fooking exclusive deal with a promoter in 2021 if you got a decent name that sells & I hope as we move forward they become even less needed for folks at all levels of the sport.

Probably see more activity when/if that's the case also as dedicated pre-planned TV dates won't need to be booked. If a boxer wants to fight 8 times a year on YouTube or Amazon Prime or some new platform he just has make the deal, have his lawyer hire the folks to set sh^t up & then it's happening whenever he wants it to happen. Very few middlemen in that situation so you don't need a million viewers to make a profit, but if you get a million you are bathing in money the next day.