Boxing Promoter Wants To Run Shows At WWE Performance Center
Bob Arum targeting prizefights at WWE training facility.
Boxing promoter Bob Arum has expressed his interest in running boxing events at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida.
The International Boxing Hall of Fame promoter told ESPN's Steve Kim the following:-
“It’s very, very interesting, and we’re going to be in touch with them. There’s a possibility to use their facility to maybe do events without a crowd. We’re very close with Vince and the WWE. So let’s see, but we’re still not talking before June.”
Arum also noted that he has already held talks on holding events at the WWE facility, though the timescale is unclear:-
“But it all depends, the whole reopening of the country, the different states, it all comes down to the same thing — testing, adequate testing. You cannot open it and have athletes compete against each other with referees, the judges, with camera people, unless you can ensure that it’s safe, and the only way you can ensure that it’s safe is with testing. It comes down to testing.”
Last weekend saw the state of Florida decree that most professional sports organisations were "essential businesses," allowing empty-arena filming to continue at the Performance Center.