ATOP BOXING WORLD ALMOST 50 YEARS
Ali, Rachman Ali, Bob Arum
San Francisco, CA– When you look at big time boxing for the past 40+ years, there was always the presence of promoter Bob Arum and his Top Rank promotional firm.
ARUM WAS “A KENNEDY MAN”
Bob began working for the Justice Dept. and Attorney General Robert Kennedy in 1960. After the assassination of President Kennedy, Arum told me that President Johnson wanted his own team of US Attorneys. Said Arum, “I was a Kennedy man.”
CLOSED CIRCUIT TV NUMBERS BLOW BOB’S MIND
During his Justice Dept. tenure, Arum was assigned to look over the monies brought in by a Sonny Liston-Floyd Patterson fight. Blown away by the numbers, Bob was bitten by both boxing and the bucks.
PRESTIGIOUS RECIPIENT HARVARD CUM LAUDE
Now 82, Arum graduated from Harvard Law School at the very top of his class in 1958. Instead of joining a private firm, three years later Bob was working for Robert Kennedy.
TOO MANY “MEGA-FIGHTS” TO COUNT
Arum’s resume is impressive in that he has remained on top for so long. And while Arum’s firm has been the center of controversy over the years a number of times, this is not what the Wall Of Fame is about. A member of the International & World Boxing Hall of Fame’s, Arum, like him or not, Bob deserves a place.
Pedro Fernandez
Note: Mr. Fernandez is an award-winning writer, TV commentator, radio talk show host, former San Francisco Policeman and four-time Golden Gloves champion, who also pens feature stories for the R & B band Tower of Power. Comments regarding this submission can be left below.
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BOB ARUM ADDED TO “WALL OF FAME”