Filed under: Top Rank Promotions
NEW YORK -- Two legendary boxing promoters stood at B.B. King's Blues Club and Grill Wednesday in Times Square fielding questions from the media about an upcoming boxing fight they were promoting.
One stood holding a glass of brandy, wearing a blue denim jacket with pictures of him embedded on it, diamond crosses hanging from his neck. The other looked as if he had just walked out of a Golden Sachs meeting wearing a blue suit and tie.
One could be heard throughout the room, boasting loudly about how his fighter was going to "woop" the other as a pack of reporters huddled around.
The other spoke so lowly reporters had to stand closely to hear the promoter talk about the state of boxing.
Don King and Bob Arum are not likely business partners. Arum, a Harvard graduate who looks every bit the part, is on another end of the spectrum compared to the flamboyant, boisterous and confident King, who once said he graduated from the "University of Ghetto."
The two were promoting a March 12 fight card at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The fight features 37-year-old former world champion Ricardo Mayorga of Managua, Nicaragua, against WBA junior middleweight titlist Miguel Cotto of Puerto Rico.
Arum, the Top Rank Promotions CEO, represents Cotto while King represents Mayorga.
Source: http://boxing.fanhouse.com/2011/01/20/don-king-bob-arum-still-going-strong-in-promoting-game/
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