Maybe Bob Arum thought he was offering constructive criticism when he told me Thursday night that rival promoter Lou DiBella has botched the mass marketing of stylish world middleweight champion Sergio Martinez.
Only minutes after I posted Arum’s remarks, Volcanic DiBella did his typical Mt. St. Helen’s hot molten lava explosion, ringing me up via his Fighting Publicist Kevin Rooney Jr. to give his opinion about the 79 year old Arum’s slightly acerbic comments.
“Lou’s got a few comments,” the son of ex-Mike Tyson trainer Kevin Sr., said in one of the year’s greatest understatements.
I didn’t offer DiBella the floor, he more or less mounted the rostrum to blast Uncle Bob like so:
“Everything Dana White has ever said about Arum is true. It makes me so angry that people do this in our business, it’s why this business is so self-destructive,” DiBella said in his best Foghorn Leghorn shouting voice.
“It’s all denigration and Bob is the king of denigration.”
