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"Boxing Promoter" Bob Arum Hand Signed 3X5 Card Todd Mueller COA

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    Up for auction
    "Boxing Promoter" Bob Arum Hand Signed 3X5 Card.
    This item is authenticated by Todd Mueller Autographs and comes with their certificate of authenticity.
    ES-2007
    Robert Arum
    (born December 8, 1931
    ) 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 also worked for the US Attorney's Office for the
    Southern District of New York
    in the tax division during his legal career before moving into boxing promotion. Arum was born in New York City. He grew up in the
    Crown Heights
    section of New York, with an
    Orthodox Jewish
    background.
    He attended
    Erasmus Hall High School
    ,
    New York University
    , then
    Harvard Law School
    with fellow students recalled as "snooty guys from the prep schools and the eating clubs," where he was graduated
    cum laude
    . He worked as an attorney in the
    United States Department of Justice
    during the
    Kennedy
    administration, and had little interest in boxing until 1965. Following the 1963
    assassination of John F. Kennedy
    and his Justice Department service under
    Robert Kennedy
    ; Arum joined
    Wall Street
    law firm Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin, Krim & Ballon, where he researched Kennedy's assassination for senior partner
    Louis Nizer
    , author of the Forward to the
    Warren Commission
    Report.
    Following the 1963 suicide of Washington Heights Savings and Loan Association president Floyd Cramer, hours after his indictment for being the "mastermind" of a mortgage tax evasion scheme; Arum recalled, "I knew then that I wasn't cut out to be a prosecutor." Arum continued to practice civil law until dissolving his office in 1979.
    In 1962, Arum was assigned by the
    Department of Justice
    to confiscate proceeds from the September 25, 1962
    Sonny Liston
    vs.
    Floyd Patterson
    world heavyweight boxing title fight
    ;
    during which he met
    closed-circuit television
    (CCTV) pioneer and former
    Leo Burnett & Co.
    vice-president
    Lester M. Malitz
    (1907 – July 24, 1965) of Lester M. Malitz Inc.
    Malitz was 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,
    Arum became a
    boxing promoter
    . In 2016, Brown recalled that Arum had seen a televised fight in 1965, as "The first fight Arum ever saw was
    Terrell

    Chuvalo
    , and he watched that from the television truck."
    [11]
    Arum credits Brown with introducing him to Muhammad Ali, and Ali with teaching him how to be a boxing promoter.
    Arum became a vice-president and secretary of Ali's promotion company, Main Bout. Mike Malitz, son of Lester, like Arum, owned 20 percent of the company and became its vice-president. Jim Brown owned 10 percent of the company and served as its vice-president in charge of publicity.
    Referencing his first live fight viewing, Arum was reported as saying that he "had never seen a boxing match before the first fight I did with
    Ali
    ", referring to the 1966
    Muhammad Ali vs. George Chuvalo
    Toronto
    bout.
    During the 1980s, Arum became a driving force behind the sport, rivaling
    Don King
    . Arum organized superfights including
    Marvin Hagler
    vs.
    Roberto Durán
    and
    Hagler vs. Thomas Hearns
    . Arum mounted the Hagler–
    John Mugabi
    , Hearns–
    James Shuler
    doubleheader in Las Vegas 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. Ten days later, Shuler was dead in a motorcycle accident.
    Arum kept producing big-scale undercards and superfights, including the
    Hagler

    Sugar Ray Leonard
    bout, the
    Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Thomas Hearns
    1989 rematch,
    Evander Holyfield
    vs.
    George Foreman
    , and many others. Some of Arum's superstars from the 1990s include former world flyweight champion
    Michael Carbajal
    , six-division world champion
    Oscar De La Hoya
    ,
    eight-division world champion
    Manny Pacquiao
    , and three-division world champion
    Erik Morales
    . Arum also promoted the legendary champion
    Julio César Chávez
    in his later years of boxing. Arum has concentrated largely on promoting Hispanic fighters in recent years, citing surveys which show boxing is among the most popular sports within the Hispanic community. He has had great success with fighters
    Miguel Cotto
    , who has won world titles at the 140, 147, 154, 160-pound weight divisions, and
    Antonio Margarito
    , who held a 147-pound
    WBO
    belt from 2002 to 2007.