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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - I ask you, Tuesday morning fight club, who among us wouldn’t want to be Bob Arum?
Regardless of whether you laud the Top Rank consigliere for a track record of boffo box office numbers or view him as clearly the frostiest participant in boxing’s 21st century Cold War, it’s already apparent that age 82 agrees with him more than most.
When word arrived a couple weeks back that all parties agreed on the rematch between Manny Pacquiao and Timothy Bradley, the old man had not only laid groundwork for the current leader in the “top fight out there to be made” sweepstakes – but he’d also presided over the greatest turnaround from “ho hum” to “best in show” since Tom Brady took his passing act from Ann Arbor to Foxborough.
The parties will get together for the first time today in Los Angeles for an introductory news conference that’s sure to bring the media world’s heaviest sitters to what’s sure to be a rocking buffet spread.
Still, notice how it says “presided over” and not “orchestrated.”
Because as much credit as Arum might deserve for lifting Oscar De La Hoya, Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Pacquiao to above-the-fold status during respectively esteemed runs at TR, only a full-throated Pollyanna could say a Pac-Bradley re-do would have been on anyone’s must-see radar 19 months ago. [Click Here To Read More]
Regardless of whether you laud the Top Rank consigliere for a track record of boffo box office numbers or view him as clearly the frostiest participant in boxing’s 21st century Cold War, it’s already apparent that age 82 agrees with him more than most.
When word arrived a couple weeks back that all parties agreed on the rematch between Manny Pacquiao and Timothy Bradley, the old man had not only laid groundwork for the current leader in the “top fight out there to be made” sweepstakes – but he’d also presided over the greatest turnaround from “ho hum” to “best in show” since Tom Brady took his passing act from Ann Arbor to Foxborough.
The parties will get together for the first time today in Los Angeles for an introductory news conference that’s sure to bring the media world’s heaviest sitters to what’s sure to be a rocking buffet spread.
Still, notice how it says “presided over” and not “orchestrated.”
Because as much credit as Arum might deserve for lifting Oscar De La Hoya, Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Pacquiao to above-the-fold status during respectively esteemed runs at TR, only a full-throated Pollyanna could say a Pac-Bradley re-do would have been on anyone’s must-see radar 19 months ago. [Click Here To Read More]
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