Taking a Ride With Boxing's Big Cheese

By Jason Gay

It was early afternoon on Tuesday when the boxing promoter Bob Arum stepped out of the St. Regis Hotel on East 55th Street and into a sleek black Mercedes. Arum, who will turn 80 on Dec. 8, had arrived in town to pump Saturday's Miguel Cotto-Antonio Margarito rematch at Madison Square Garden.

Arum grew up in Brooklyn, on Montgomery Street in Crown Heights, the son of an accountant who had clients like the vaudeville-turned-Broadway act Olsen and Johnson. "We'd come into the city primarily to go to the old Madison Square Garden," Arum recalled. "I remember watching a lot of NYU basketball. Dolph Schayes! They were a very good team."

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