{"id":245813,"date":"2025-07-07T17:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T17:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/245813\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T17:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T17:29:09","slug":"bob-arum-is-convinced-the-greatest-of-all-time-is-still-boxing-today-its-scary-what-he-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/245813\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Arum Is Convinced ‘The Greatest Of All Time’ Is Still Boxing Today: “It’s Scary What He Does”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Legendary promoter Bob Arum<\/a> has revealed who he believes to be the greatest fighter in boxing history.<\/p>\n

Arum made the transition into boxing during the 1960s having come into contact with the sport previously during his impressive law career. He co-founded Top Rank Boxing in 1973 and has worked with an abundance of generational greats during this time.<\/p>\n

Arum worked with the late, great heavyweight icon Muhammad Ali throughout the seventies<\/a>, but more recently has promoted the likes of Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao and Canelo Alvarez.<\/p>\n

He also played a pivotal role in the resurgence of Tyson Fury<\/a>, who bounced back from a number of personal issues to sensationally dethrone Deontay Wilder of the WBC world heavyweight title back in 2020.<\/p>\n

Despite working with so many of the sport\u2019s greatest fighters, Arum has spoken out and revealed in an interview with Jai McCallister<\/a> that he believes unbeaten Japanese sensation Naoya \u2018The Monster\u2019 Inoue is the best fighter to have ever laced up the gloves.<\/p>\n

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\u201cInoue is not only pound-for-pound the best in the world, Inoue is the best fighter I\u2019ve ever seen, no matter what weight category or anything.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have never ever in the almost 60-years I\u2019ve been in boxing seen anything like Inoue.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He describes what Inoue is doing in the sport as \u2018scary\u2019.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s scary what I\u2019m seeing. He so overwhelms his opponents, really good opponents. I\u2019ve never seen a fighter of that size perform the way he has. Maybe a Salvador Sanchez had that ability, but even then he didn\u2019t win all his fights by knockout. Inoue goes into these fights, he boxes these guys and then he knocks them out. What we\u2019re seeing in Inoue is something really special. It\u2019s as special for boxing as Otani is for baseball.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inoue has had an outstanding professional career since making his debut back in 2012. The 32-year-old from Kanagawa has won world titles in four weight divisions, including the undisputed championship at bantamweight and super-bantamweight.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Monster\u2019 made the most recent defence of his undisputed crown at 122lbs against Ramon Cardenas in Las Vegas on May 4, stopping the American inside eight rounds.<\/p>\n

It has been reported that the Japanese superstar will make one more ring appearance this year, with rumours circulating that he will lock horns with former unified super-bantamweight champion Murodjon Akhmadaliev next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Legendary promoter Bob Arum has revealed who he believes to be the greatest fighter in boxing history. Arum…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-245813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114813138591265708","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}