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Article: Arum rules the world of boxing.(Sports)
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- Manila Bulletin
- Article date:
- November 6, 2009
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NEW YORK (AP) — The most powerful man in boxing is a Harvard-educated tax lawyer and a street-savvy businessman, a Talmudic scholar with a penchant for four-letter expletives.He's been called generous and charming, ruthless and conniving, yet he's universally respected for spending the better part of five decades atop a pitiless sport.''Bob Arum is one of the 10 smartest people I've ever met, not one of the 10 smartest boxing people I've met,'' says longtime HBO executive Seth Abraham, who has known Arum as both a businessman and friend. ''He combines, which is extra formidable, traditional book smarts with street smarts, common sense and experience.''You put those ...
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