Robert Arum is an American lawyer, boxing promoter and businessman. He is the founder and CEO of Top Rank, a professional boxing promotion company based in Las Vegas. He has had success with fighters Miguel Cotto, Oscar De La Hoya, Manny Pacquiao, Erik Morales and Julio César Chávez. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall Of Fame in 1999.
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Robert Arum is an American lawyer, boxing promoter and businessman. He is the founder and CEO of Top Rank, a professional boxing promotion company based in Las Vegas. He worked as an attorney in the United States Department of Justice during the Kennedy administration. Arum was inducted into the International Boxing Hall Of Fame in 1999. He has had success with fighters Miguel Cotto, Oscar De La Hoya, Manny Pacquiao, Erik Morales and Julio César Chávez in his later years of boxing. He also promotes boxing shows in Spanish on Telefutura, a Spanish language network. In 2003, Arum became the first Jewish person to be inducted in the Southern Boxing Hall of Fame. He was also the first Jew to win a world title in the welterweight division. He won the WBO 147-pound belt from 2002 to 2007, and the IBF 154-pound title from 2007 to 2009. He currently lives in Las Las Vegas with his wife and two children. He and his wife have three children, a son and a daughter. They have three grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
They also have a great-great-grandson, who is a professional boxer. He had little interest in boxing until 1965, when he met Lester M. Malitz, the promoter of the 1965 Terrell–Chuvalo bout, during which he retained Arum to represent him. In 1966, subsequent to a suggestion by Jim Brown, whom Arum had secured for Malitz as the fight’s announcer, he became a boxing promoter. He credits Brown with introducing him to Muhammad Ali, and Ali with teaching him how to be a boxingPromoter. In the 1980s, Arm became a driving force behind the sport, rivaling Don King. He organized superfights including Marvin Hagler vs. Roberto Durán and Thomas Hearns vs. James Shuler in April, 1986. After the Hearns–Shuler fight, Shuler, who had lost by knockout in the first round, showed up at Arum’s hotel room to thank him for the opportunity to fight Hearns. In 1987, Aru organized the Hagler–Sugar Ray Leonard bout, the Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Thomas hearns 1989 rematch, Evander Holyfield vs. George Foreman, and many others.
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