Bob Arum: The UFC got buried Saturday night
UFC president Dana White loves boxing, but the promoters, not so much, 80-year-old Bob Arum especially. in the space of two…
UFC president Dana White loves boxing, but the promoters, not so much, 80-year-old Bob Arum especially. in the space of two minutes, White has called Arum an “idiot, moron, full of s—, big, fat, mouth shooting off, rich, lying, makes me sick, phony, two-faced pig, scumbag who destroyed the entire sport of boxing.”
Arum has made similar comments, but reversed.
Arum admires the promoters of the UFC, saying “I love the way they have shown us, because of how well they’ have been doing, in certain aspects, to make us adapt, they do an unbelievable job on advertising on the Internet. They do an unbelievable job in the arena with music and so forth, and steaming up the crowd, we’re trying to duplicate it. They are great promoters … and they are really good guys so I give them all the kudos, and all the credit for what they’ve done. Theres’ no knock on them, these are good class guys who really built a terrific business.”
Arum however, hates the sport, and the fans. “For me MMA is garbage and junk, that’s how I feel and I would think that the majority of people of my generation would feel the same … It’s fans are skinheads … It’s horrible, guys rolling around like homosexuals on the ground. It is not a sport, the guys who throw punches can’t throw a punch to save their ass, when the punches land the guys have no chins.”
Saturday night the UFC debuted on national television, immediately before the Arum promoted Pacquiao fight, and it offered Bob Arum another opportunity to go off on MMA, and the UFC.
“They thought they would hurt us, Arum said of the UFC. Instead they got hurt because they got buried. But I think the fact they’re just on for an hour helps us.
We had so many companies soliciting us wanting to be sponsors not just for a fight, but a series of fights. We’ve had to greatly increase our staff and personnel. Our [Las Vegas] offices are now too small, and we’re in the process of buying our own building, so we can expand and handle the people we have.
We’re going to do things next year that you haven’t seen in years. Maybe never.
We’re not geniuses trying to be monopolists. We’re just in the business. You can’t keep doing the same old things you were doing which were not successful, and somehow the skies are going to open and it’s going to become successful. You’ve to go out and solicit sponsors and you’ve got to make a real effort to run your business differently.