A promoter is a person who assumes the financial responsibilities of a sporting event and supports the related issues, including contracting with the principals, renting the site, campaigning and collecting gate receipts, etc. Let’s talk about some prominent boxing promoters.
Some prominent boxing promoters:
Robert Arum:
Robert Arum is one of the biggest boxing promoters. He is the founder and CEO of Top Rank, a professional boxing company whose headquarters are located in Las Vegas. He is an American Attorney. He was born on December 8, in the year 1931, in Brooklyn, New York.
Donald King (Don King):
Donald is an American boxing promoter and a controversial figure. He is also known for his alleged involvement in several,l historic boxing matchups. Is controversial mostly because of their manslaughter conviction and civil cases against him. Also, complaints of practices of match-fitting including alleged match-fixing were brought against time on August 20, 1931, in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Oscar De La Hoya:
Oscar is one of the accomplished boxing promoters and a former professional boxer who competed from 1992 to 2008. He basks his accolades that include winning 11 world titles in six weight classes, and the lineal championship in three weight classes. He is gracefully ranked as the 29th best boxer of all time. He was born on Feb.04, 1973, in East Los Angeles, California, United States.
Frank Warren:
Frank is an English boxing manager and more. Frank Warren is better known for the boxing promotion of Naseem ‘Prince’ Hamed and Tyson ‘Gypsy King’ Fury.
Warren and his son George own and run their establishment Queensberry Promotions. Warren is also a founder of the British boxing television channel named BoxNain. He was born on February 28, 1 952 in Islington, London, UK.
George Lewis:
He was an American boxing promoter. People fondly called him “Tex”. The elderly gentleman was the founder of the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League, and the builder of the third incarnation of Madison Square Garden in New York City. In the 1920s, he was a prominent promoter. However, we do not have much credible information about his contribution to boxing promotion in those days. He was born on January 2, 1870, in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, and died on January 6, 1929, in Miami, Florida.
Akihiko Honda:
Honda is a Japanese professional boxing promoter. He has headed Teiken Promotions Inc., since 1964. He is known for the promotion of the two Mike Tyson fights against Tony Tubbs and James Douglas. He was inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame in 2008 and was also selected as an inductee into the International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHOF)in 2009. He was born on Sept. 9, 1947, in Tokyo.
Boxing promoters are such a profession that there cannot be the queen of interested people withdrawing the passion of becoming the next promoters.