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PROMOTER OF THE YEAR BOB
ARUM THANKS WBO FOR SUPPORT
IN CHINA
By Dong Secuya
PhilBoxing.com
Mon, 03 Nov 2014
LAS VEGAS – Hall of Fame Promoter Bob Arum received the
Promoter of the Year award from the WBO during the Gala
Night Thursday at the closure of the 27th WBO Convention
held at the historic Caesars Palace Hotel.
Arum, who spoke briefly at the podium, thanked the WBO for
their role and support in China where Top Rank started
promoting big time boxing starting last year in Macau and
recently in Shanghai that positively put China on the boxing
map.
“I would like to thank WBO for the outstanding help that they
did in what we have done in the past year in opening up
China... in staging big events in Macau and recently
opening up for the first time real big professional boxing in
mainland China,” Arum said.
With a huge market of more than a billion people, Arum,
who first successfully promoted at The Venetian in Macau
on April 6, 2013 and followed it up with five more events
including a couple of huge Pacquiao fights, told the
assembled boxing luminaries at the Caesars Palace “I think
it is the most lucrative thing that has happened in boxing in
my lifetime...”
Aside from the WBO which sanctioned most of the fights in
Macau and Shanghai, credit should also go to WBO Vice-
President for Asia-Pacific Leon Panoncillo who organized a
boxing commission, the Professional Boxing Commission
(PBC) which supervised, resourced and appointed all
boxing officials who staged the highly successful boxing
events.
Photo: WBO officials Luis Bastista Salas (left), WBO
President Francisco 'Paco' Valcarcel (2nd from right) and
John Duggan (R) award Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum as
'Promoter of the Year' Thursday night at the Caesars Palace
in Las Vegas. Photo by Dong Secuya.
ARUM THANKS WBO FOR SUPPORT
IN CHINA
By Dong Secuya
PhilBoxing.com
Mon, 03 Nov 2014
LAS VEGAS – Hall of Fame Promoter Bob Arum received the
Promoter of the Year award from the WBO during the Gala
Night Thursday at the closure of the 27th WBO Convention
held at the historic Caesars Palace Hotel.
Arum, who spoke briefly at the podium, thanked the WBO for
their role and support in China where Top Rank started
promoting big time boxing starting last year in Macau and
recently in Shanghai that positively put China on the boxing
map.
“I would like to thank WBO for the outstanding help that they
did in what we have done in the past year in opening up
China... in staging big events in Macau and recently
opening up for the first time real big professional boxing in
mainland China,” Arum said.
With a huge market of more than a billion people, Arum,
who first successfully promoted at The Venetian in Macau
on April 6, 2013 and followed it up with five more events
including a couple of huge Pacquiao fights, told the
assembled boxing luminaries at the Caesars Palace “I think
it is the most lucrative thing that has happened in boxing in
my lifetime...”
Aside from the WBO which sanctioned most of the fights in
Macau and Shanghai, credit should also go to WBO Vice-
President for Asia-Pacific Leon Panoncillo who organized a
boxing commission, the Professional Boxing Commission
(PBC) which supervised, resourced and appointed all
boxing officials who staged the highly successful boxing
events.
Photo: WBO officials Luis Bastista Salas (left), WBO
President Francisco 'Paco' Valcarcel (2nd from right) and
John Duggan (R) award Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum as
'Promoter of the Year' Thursday night at the Caesars Palace
in Las Vegas. Photo by Dong Secuya.
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