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No longer fighting, Top Rank, ESPN talk about fights

By Dan Rafael

Thursday, September 3, 2009

From 1980 until 1996, promoter Bob Arum's Top Rank provided ESPN with a weekly live boxing series, aptly named "Top Rank Boxing." It was a successful exclusive partnership that helped put ESPN on the map in the early 1980s and provided Top Rank with a steady stream of revenue and an important outlet for its fighters, many of whom would go on to greater glory. After a rough split with the network, Top Rank hasn't done a boxing show on ESPN in many years. Top Rank didn't really want to and ESPN ...

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