{"id":35740,"date":"2025-07-31T01:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T01:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/35740\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T01:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T01:29:07","slug":"bob-arum-wants-to-sign-unbeatable-world-champion-hell-dominate-for-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/35740\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Arum Wants To Sign ‘Unbeatable’ World Champion: “He’ll Dominate For Years”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bob Arum<\/a> has praised an unbeaten world champion who continues to take the sport by storm.<\/p>\n

The legendary promoter began his career working in boxing in the sixties<\/a>, going on to establish Top Rank as one of the promotional giants of the sport.<\/p>\n

Arum has worked with a number of legendary fighters throughout the course of his career<\/a>, including the likes of Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Sugar Ray Leonard, Manny Pacquiao and Oscar De La Hoya to name just a few.<\/p>\n

In more recent years, Arum has played a role in the career progression of unbeaten Japanese sensation Naoya Inoue and reemergence of heavyweight star Tyson Fury amongst a number of others.<\/p>\n

Another fighter that Arum has worked with in the past is reigning WBC world lightweight champion Shakur Stevenson<\/a>, who remains unbeaten as a professional since making his debut eight years ago.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Fight Hub TV<\/a> after Stevenson\u2019s most recent victory over William Zepeda, Arum said three-weight champion Stevenson will \u2018dominate\u2019 at lightweight for years to come.<\/p>\n

\u201cShakur is one of the best fighters around, people say he\u2019s a technician but he\u2019s more than just a technician. He\u2019s a great fighter and he\u2019s a fighter that as the years go on, as the fights pile up, people will realise he\u2019s extremely difficult to beat.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I wasn\u2019t surprised at that fight and how it went because I\u2019ve always been very high on Shakur and his ability and I think that, as long as there\u2019s no problem making weight, he will dominate the lightweight division for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stevenson defeated Zepeda via unanimous decision when they clashed at the Louis Armstrong Stadium in New York on July 12 in what has been described by many as a career best performance, and certainly his most entertaining in recent years.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old is expected to return to the ring once again before the end of the year, though a unification bout with Gervonta Davis does not seem likely at this stage. Whatever the next move is, Arum wants to be involved.<\/p>\n

Having fought the last fight of a deal with Eddie Hearn\u2019s Matchroom Boxing, Arum told Cigar Talk<\/a> that he will be making a move to get Shakur back under his promotional banner after the parted ways mid-2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re gonna present a new deal to Shakur and hopefully we can sign him. Shakur and myself have never had a cross word. I like him as a fighter, I like him as a person, he\u2019s a really nice young man. So, hopefully we can work again together.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bob Arum has praised an unbeaten world champion who continues to take the sport by storm. The legendary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-35740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}