With his boxing promotion Top Rank, Bob Arum might be one of the most influential figures in combat sports today, but he still hasn’t acquired a taste for the sport of MMA, as he now explained in a short video interview with Fight Hub.
“That’s my personal view, I don’t like MMA. I just don’t like it, I don’t see what everybody sees in it,” Arum said, and unsurprisingly also didn’t have much to say about MMA’s arguably biggest star today. “I heard the name McGregor, but I don’t know anything about him.”
What Arum does know, however, is that the Hispanic community in the U.S. makes a huge part of his viewership. So it comes as no surprise, that the 84-year old promoter has a very clear stance towards Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his questionable claim to deport every single illegal immigrant from the US.
“Deport you Donald!,” Arum said. “I’d rather have Donald deported, than have the hard-working, undocumented people who live in this country, who work so hard, deported.”
Arum’s Top Tank promotion is putting on a WBO welterweight title fight between Manny Pacquiao and Timothy Bradley on April 9, which is billed as Pacquiao’s farewell match. Many Hispanic boxers will fight on what Arum called the “Trump undercard”, as well.