Exclusive: Bob Arum Talks TR’s Expiring Deal, MSG Booked For P.R. Parade Wknd In June & Loma

Top Rank will have its annual NYC event to coincide with the Puerto Rican Day Parade weekend, bossman Bob Arum said, on Thursday afternoon.

The Garden is reserved, said the Bobfather, sounding hale, hearty, and hopeful in a catch-up phoner.

Probably its Xander Zayas as the feature attraction, he stated, noting that there is time to figure it out because the parade is Sunday, June 8.

First things first, he said, tickets went on sale for the just-announced Naoya Inoue US return on May 4 against 26-1 Texan Ramon Cardenas .

The Inoue tickets are selling like mad, the promoter said.

He is thinking the T-Mobile will get filled that night, or real close to it.

Capacity is about 21, 22,000.

There will be a lot of people coming from Japan, but we will rely on casino customers and Japanese fans here.

The MGM has bought a large block.

Inoue A Monster Superstar The World Over I asked, is the superlative super bantamweight Inoue (age 31; 29-0, 26 KOs) a superstar here, being that it can be out of site/ out of mind in this era? Or does he sort of have to prove it by filling the arena? Inoue last fought in America on June 19, 2021, stopping Michael Dasmarinas at the Virgin Hotel in Vegas.

You might chuckle, I did, when the 93-year-old Arum lightly thundered that he didnt really give AF about pound for pound and whether The Monster is the best pugilist pound for pound among actives.

He is a superstar, all over, as ( Shohei) Ohtani is in MLB, Arum said.

Who cares about pound for pound? Well, I might boast about it if the guy was on my roster, I weakly responded while howling quietly.

Anything On Next For Loma? And beyond the Inoue return to America after eight gigs in Japan, what else is in the works? Arum expects to know what path majestic technical wizard Vasiliy Lomachenko , the 37-year-old Ukrainian master craftsman, might take soon.

No hints on the possible path.

But...

Plans are going forward with network/platform partners , he said, and in the next month or so well know .

Forgive me, I didnt fish for a hint there.

I didnt think hed want to talk speculative partners.

So, we can restart those engines of speculation, friends.

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