Editing Bob Arum (section)

==Boxing promoter==
In 1962, Arum was assigned by the [[United States Department of Justice|Department of Justice]] to confiscate proceeds from the September 25, 1962 [[Sonny Liston]] vs. [[Floyd Patterson]] [[List of heavyweight boxing champions|world heavyweight boxing title fight]];<ref name=IBHOF>[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/nonparticipant/arum.html IBHOF] "Bob Arum", International Boxing Hall of Fame. Retrieved July 27, 2018.</ref> during which he met [[closed-circuit television]] (CCTV) pioneer and former [[Leo Burnett Worldwide|Leo Burnett & Co.]] vice-president Lester M. Malitz (1907 – July 24, 1965) of Lester M. Malitz Inc.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://docplayer.net/60650555-The-businessweekly-of-television-and-radio-agencies-see-photo-finish-in-network-rating-race-p29.html|title=THE BUSINESSWEEKLY OF TELEVISION AND RADIO. Agencies see photo finish in network rating race. p. 29 – PDF|website=docplayer.net}}</ref> 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,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=w9PgTKiU4boC&pg=PT145 Hauser, Thomas] ''Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times'', Open Road Media, 2012, page 145. Retrieved August 19, 2018.</ref> 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 [[Ernie Terrell|Terrell]]–[[George Chuvalo|Chuvalo]], and he watched that from the television truck."<ref>[https://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/boxing/how-nfl-legend-jim-brown-pushed-bob-arum-into-promoting-boxing-212122791-boxing.html Iole, Kevin] "How NFL legend Jim Brown pushed Bob Arum into boxing promotion", ''Yahoo! Sports'', March 28, 2016. Retrieved August 20, 2018.</ref> Arum credits Brown with introducing him to Muhammad Ali, and Ali with teaching him how to be a boxing promoter.<ref>[https://www.newsday.com/sports/boxing/boxing-promoter-bob-arum-recalls-muhammad-ali-s-courage-1.11897361 Logan, Greg] "Boxing promoter Bob Arum recalls Muhammad Ali's courage", ''Newsday'', June 9, 2016. Retrieved August 23, 2018.</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite book|last=Ezra|first=Michael|title=The Economic Civil Rights Movement: African Americans and the Struggle for Economic Power|date=2013|publisher=[[Routledge]]|isbn=9781136274756|page=105|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DL41bsCigZcC&pg=PA105|language=en}}</ref> 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 [[Muhammad Ali|Ali]]", referring to the 1966 [[Muhammad Ali vs. George Chuvalo]] bout.<ref>[https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/boxing/legendary-boxing-promoter-bob-arum-8119613 Mannix, Chris] "Arum, one of boxing's most powerful promoters, still hustling", ''Sports Illustrated'', December 5, 2012. Retrieved August 5, 2018.</ref>

During the 1980s, Arum became a driving force behind the sport, rivaling [[Don King (boxing promoter)|Don King]]. Arum organized superfights including [[Marvin Hagler vs. Roberto Durán]] and [[The War (boxing)|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.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}} ten days after that bout, Shuler died in a motorcycle accident.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/21/sports/shuler-ex-champion-killed-in-road-accident.html|title = Shuler, Ex-Champion, Killed in Road Accident|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 21 March 1986}}</ref> In 1994, he tried to add basketball to his interests, joining forces with [[Fred Hofheinz]] and [[Louisiana]] politicians to purchase and relocate the [[Minnesota Timberwolves]] to [[New Orleans]], but the deal was rejected.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Krawczynski |first=Jon |title=The long days and wild nights that saved the Wolves from leaving Minnesota |url=https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/1939924/2020/08/06/timberwolves-sale-glen-taylor-1994-minnesota-new-orleans/ |access-date=2024-07-05 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

Arum kept producing big-scale undercards and superfights, including the [[Marvin Hagler vs. Sugar Ray Leonard|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]], [[octuple champion|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. This strategy began after his success signing [[Roberto Durán]] and promoting Durán's comeback fight against [[Davey Moore (boxer, born 1959)|Davey Moore]], which demonstrated that he was not washed up after the [[Roberto Durán vs. Sugar Ray Leonard II|1980 "No más" fight]]. Next, he signed [[Julio César Chávez Jr.]] and [[Oscar De La Hoya]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Matthews |first=Wallace |date=2017-05-06 |title=Boxing Struggles, but It Has a Culture in Its Corner |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/05/sports/boxing-julio-cesar-chavez-jr-saul-alvarez-hispanic-fans.html |access-date=2024-04-01 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> He has had great success with Puerto Rican [[Miguel Cotto]], who won world titles at the 140, 147, 154, 160-pound weight divisions; Mexican-American [[Antonio Margarito]], who held a 147-pound [[WBO]] belt from 2002 to 2007; Mexican-American [[José Ramírez (boxer)|José Ramírez]], the former WBC and WBO light welterweight world champion; Honduran-American [[Teófimo López]], the former lightweight world champion; and Mexican [[Óscar Valdez]], the former WBC super featherweight world champion.

Arum has concentrated many of his shows in the Southwestern portion of the U.S., in cities with large Spanish-speaking populations. He is also the promoter of many of the cards on Telefutura, a Spanish language network. He later shifted over to [[Azteca América]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Notebook: Arum, Azteca America filling the Telefutura void - boxing - ESPN |url=https://www.espn.com/sports/boxing/notebook?page=notebook/boxingjanuary5 |access-date=2024-04-01 |website=www.espn.com}}</ref> In 2016, he put together an all-Hispanic undercard for [[Manny Pacquiao vs. Timothy Bradley III]] in protest of then-presidential candidate [[Donald Trump]]'s statements on Mexican immigration.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-01-19 |title=Promoter Bob Arum plans a ‘Donald Trump undercard,’ where all fighters are Hispanic |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/other-sports/promoter-bob-arum-plans-a-donald-trump-undercard-where-all-fighters-are-hispanic/ |access-date=2024-04-01 |website=The Seattle Times |language=en-US}}</ref>

Arum was inducted into the [[International Boxing Hall Of Fame]] in 1999. In 2003 he was inducted into the [[Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://scjewishsportshof.com/arum.html|title = Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Home}}</ref>