Sports Business Daily: What's Up For The Weekend With Top Rank Chair Bob Arum

By Theresa Manahan

Top Rank Chair BOB ARUM has the lucky position to find himself home in Las Vegas this weekend. As he tells it, “At least 50 percent of the weekends I’m doing a fight or I’m out of town, or I’m in Vegas but I’m working. So the 50 percent of the weekends where I’m not doing a fight, those I treasure and I kick back and relax.” But after living in the city for 27 years, his idea of relaxing is thoroughly Vegas-style.

CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR: I have friends that come in from all over the world and they always know that the gift that I like them to bring the most of anything are the Cuban cigars, which I can’t bring in myself because of the embargo against Cuba. I have humidors filled with Cuban cigars 'cause they’re the best cigars in the world. We have a pool house at our home and it’s really got nice here now. The spring comes early in Las Vegas, so you open the whole pool house. I smoke in the pool house because my wife won’t let me smoke in the house, which I don’t blame her. But I have a big television set in the pool house.

LET’S TAKE A STROLL: I’ll probably take a nice walk on Saturday. I love to walk. It’s Saturday and the weather is good, so it probably won’t be til 9:00am. We have great paths where I live, so I generally take about a 3-mile walk; takes me about an hour. 

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