Season 5: #45 Bob Arum
Boxing Life Stories
Tris Dixon
5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2023
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Arum recalls the big nights of Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, the Four Kings era of Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran and Tommy Hearns, his time with Manny Pacquiao and much more.
Arum discusses meeting his wife, Lovee, their first date, losing his son, John, in a tragic accident, how he feels promoting a sport that takes so much physically from the athletes and how he feels about his arch-rival Don King today.
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| 0:30.0 | But I must say that when I went into it if people had predicted that I would stay in this long I would |
| 0:41.2 | laugh at them. |
| 0:52.0 | Next to Joe Rivas, she was sitting behind me and she leaned over and she said, are fights always like this? |
| 0:55.0 | And I said, no, you're seeing something special. |
| 0:58.5 | I think that's, you know know that's always been my philosophy and that's how I was raised. |
| 1:09.5 | You make the best of the situation and you carry on. |
| 1:14.0 | If you dwell on a loss, you grieve, but if you dwell on a loss too long you affect your ability to operate and to function and that doesn't |
| 1:30.8 | do anybody any good. |
| 1:37.0 | Hello and welcome to boxing life stories with me Tristics. What happened in the ring after |
| 1:38.0 | T rhizinole Good was Charles Play compared to that one. |
| 1:42.0 | Still the pooshpong to this day. |
| 1:44.0 | You couldn't take the tears from his eyes |
| 1:48.0 | or the smile of his face, could you? |
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