Who is the last black boxer Bob Arum built up into a PPV star?

[Outwest Exp 355]

Didn't he promote Ali back in the day ?

Ali was already a superstar by the time Arum sunk his claws into him.

[Rick Taylor]

Look at how PBC or Mayweather promotions promoted a fighter like Gervonta Davis.. they knew if they tap into the black entertainment community, they can easily promote him and make him a household name amongst blacks and others..

You think Bob Arum is going to organize Shakur Stevenson's career in such a way.

I highly doubt it.

davis is a household name??

[Roadblock]

The last black American ppv star. A better question is why haven’t Mayweather or haymon been able to create any black ppv stars?

Its very hard to do today because its very hard to stand out above the others, the nature of social media has so much hate going on it takes the shine of them all bringing the lot down.

To step into a superstar you gotta have an edge that creates lots of interest from a wide demographic.

[Bandman]

arums not a miracle worker, bud has absolutely no charisma or nothing about him personality wise that makes people interested in him. just no star quality whatsoever.

the guy in ur avy (GGG) has the personality of a pet turtle yet he signed a $100 million dollar deal with DAZN .. canelo doesn't even speak fckin English yet he's the "face" of boxing.. Pacquiao AKA "talk to my promoteh bob arrum" had the personality of a rock.. yet all these guys secured megafights and huge deals because of their promoters. not their personality.

[CharlieStewart]

the guy in ur avy (GGG) has the personality of a pet turtle yet he signed a $100 million dollar deal with DAZN .. canelo doesn't even speak fckin English yet he's the "face" of boxing.. Pacquiao AKA "talk to my promoteh bob arrum" had the personality of a rock.. yet all these guys secured megafights and huge deals because of their promoters. not their personality.

They all have charisma in the ring, ggg and paq are the top two most exciting boxers since Roy Jones. When a fighter has no entertainment value in or out the ring it’s impossible to make them a star.

[Ca$ual Fan]

Yes it’s Floyd. He had high PPV numbers against Gatti and Judah. With Cotto and Margarito inside the stable, the trend would have been there too.

But of course, the DelaHoya mega fight was a no brainer.

[Francis M.]

Bud just got paid 4million vs Kell Brook on ESPN to get his name out.

Teafimo Lopez just Beat Lomachenko on ESPN to get his status up.


Gervante Davis fought someone that doesn't really answer any questions on him.

Spence got paid 2 mil to fight Shawn Porter on PPV. is he a bigger star than Crawford at this point?

Canelo who is supposed to be the biggest star had to get out of his contract because they could not find fights to warrant the pay.

GGG will not get that 100 mil going by what happened to canelo.

Danny Garcia, Thurman, and Porter are pretty big names but not PPV stars.

[Bandman]

They all have charisma in the ring, ggg and paq are the top two most exciting boxers since Roy Jones. When a fighter has no entertainment value in or out the ring it’s impossible to make them a star.

Crawford is not an entertaining fighter? all he does is get KO's.. not enough?

outside the ring ggg/pac/canelo/Crawford have zero personality .. so bud can sell its just that his promoter is a failure

[QueensburyRules]

...and no, it wasn't Floyd.

Bud now knows and Shakur will find out.

- -Why U no ask him?

Toopid?

[Ochoa780]

Is that what is going on with Zurdo too?

From what I've read that's what it sounds like