He turns age 77 on December 8 but Bob Arum continues to show youthful energy in selling his pugilistic product.
Miguel Cotto. Manny Pacquiao. Kelly Pavlik. Those are the triple hitters who keep Top Rank?s bossman from a mundane retirement. No shuffleboard or lazy golf days for Uncle Bob when he?s got those three exciting fighters on the fast track.
Publicist Lee Samuels got a reminder of Arum?s exuberance Thursday morning when he got a 7 am. phone call at his Las Vegas home from his employer.
?Bob was all excited. He never calls that early but he was all pumped about Cotto-Antonio Margarito being a done deal for July 26 at the MGM Grand. We?re flying off to Mexico right now for a press conference there. We then go to Los Angeles Tuesday, go into Chicago Wednesday for Pacman-David Diaz and then on to New York Thursday with Miguel and Antonio.?
So, while Cotto and Margarito get a travel day Wednesday to catch their breath, the Top Rank Top Dawg never stops barking.
Oh, almost forgot. The press tour for “The Battle” winds up a week from today (Friday) in San Juan.
Ponce de Leon, the explorer not the figher, found one Fountain of Youth.
Arum has found three fountains which keep him current and vital.
Long may the Bobinator swing.
