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    Asked about mixed martial arts leeching away his sport's fan base, Arum replied: "Our audience in boxing is ethnic: Hispanic, Filipino, Puerto Rican, Mexican.... UFC are a bunch of skinhead white guys watching people in the ring who also look like skinhead white guys." Several years ago, he was fined by the Nevada Athletic Commission for allegedly bribing the IBF to rank Axel Schulz so that Foreman could defend his title against him — which Arum admitted to being "a stupid, wrong thing to do." Full Article at Kansas.com
    Our audience in boxing is ethnic: Hispanic, Filipino, Puerto Rican, Mexican.... UFC are a bunch of skinhead white guys watching people in the ring who also look like skinhead white guys.
    Bob Arum – Bob Arum SOURCE: Kansas.com 2 weeks ago
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  1. He combines, which is extra formidable, traditional book smarts with street smarts, common sense and experience. You put those things together and he is truly brilliant.
    SOURCE: Kansas.com 2 weeks ago
  2. Bob Arum is one of the 10 smartest people I've ever met, not one of the 10 smartest boxing people I've met
    SOURCE: Kansas.com 2 weeks ago
  3. You have to be a bad guy sometimes
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  4. I could tell who was a good person, who was not, who was a selfish person, and who was an OK person, and who was a great person ... And Ali was a great person. I'm talking about what was in his heart of hearts — what was he deep down, what was he made of.
    SOURCE: Kansas.com 2 weeks ago
  5. When you get to be my age, you appreciate more the things that mattered to you when you were coming up
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  6. Right now, this is something that keeps me going, keeps me young.
    SOURCE: Kansas.com 2 weeks ago

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