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By Ryan Burton -boxingScene.com.com and other members of the media held an informal Q&A session with legendary promoter Bob Arum. Some of the topics included Arum’s ability to promote Manny pacquiao vs. Miguel cotto without showing favortism towards either fighter, Manny’s run at politics, and what happens to each fighter in the aftermath of [...]
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Pacquiao vs Cotto will be punch to gut for Arum
November 13th, 2009 
By Kevin Iole – There may come a day, not too long from now, when boxing fans speak of pacquiao-cotto in the same reverential terms that they speak of Hagler-Hearns.
The fight matches a pair of elite fighters in the prime of their careers with styles that mesh perfectly with much at stake in the bout.
That [...]
Beware of Cotto’s left hook, Arum tells Manny
November 12th, 2009 By Francis Ochoa – The tickets have been snapped up the moment they hit the selling booths and everyone is expecting crazy figures from pay-per-view revenues.
All because the world wants to see how a once skinny, scrawny kid who used to sleep on cardboard boxes in the street can fight his way to the ranks [...]
Arum predicts brutal ending
November 11th, 2009 By Dennis Principe – American promoter Bob Arum predicts a brutal ending in the world welterweight bout between Filipino Manny pacquiao and defending champion Miguel cotto this weekend.
Though Arum promotes both pacquiao and the Puerto Rican cotto, the astute promoter insists during an overseas telephone conversation with the Bulletin that he himself is perplexed with [...]
Promoter Bob Arum should take a bow now, even before Saturday night
November 11th, 2009 By Matt Stolow – Manny pacquiao had won a few world titles before Bob Arum got a hold of him. Arum didn’t train him how to fight. But he certainly took a piece of promotional coal and turned it into a diamond for the world to pay to see Saturday night.
There are plenty of champions [...]
Arum won’t block Mayweather or Mosley from Pacquiao vs Cotto HQs
November 10th, 2009 By Michael Marley – He won’t be sending out engraved, embossed invitations to them but promoter Bob Arum revealed to me that he will have an Open Door policy at the media center during Manny pacquiao vs Miguel cotto Fight Week at the MGM Grand.
Who knew the top honcho of Top Rank, who promotes both [...]
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November 10th, 2009 By Francis Ochoa – There is a battle brewing beneath the surface of the Manny pacquiao vs Miguel cotto showdown on Nov. 14, the repercussions of which could be felt in the boxing duel everybody wants to see next year.
With tickets sold out for the “Firepower” fight card, Top Rank chief Bob Arum hopes that [...]
Arum not rooting for either of his two proteges
November 10th, 2009 By Abac Cordero – Bob Arum is keeping it to himself. He will root for no one. Not Manny pacquiao. Not Miguel cotto.
“When I made this fight I realized that both of these are my fighters,” said the legendary boxing promoter who doesn’t mind pitting his own boxers against each other as long as it’s [...]
Does Bob Arum benefit more from a Pacquiao or Cotto win on the 14th?
November 10th, 2009 By Scott Heritage – In the latest round of promoter squabbling, Oscar De La Hoya has again incurred the wrath of Bob Arum by suggesting that he had tried to arrange a bigger ring for Manny pacquiao’s showdown with Miguel cotto.
While this was later found out to be false, by way of the Nevada boxing [...]
BOB ARUM: THIS IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST COMPETITIVE FIGHTS OF THE YEAR
November 8th, 2009 By Ben Thompson – “That fight was that fight and this fight is this fight. I think this fight, for me, is a much more intriguing fight and a fight that is getting a lot more attention because it’s a much more competitive fight than the Mayweather-Marquez fight. Most journalists didn’t give Marquez, and rightly [...]
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