Examining Elite Boxing Promotion’s Pandemic Response Five Years Later

Top Rank Boxing headed into the 2020 calendar year rolling along with a number of anticipated fights scheduled. By the time the calendar turned to the month of March, Bob Arum’s promotion had been slated to head to The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City on the night of March 14.

It was to be a busy weekend for Madison Square Garden that second full weekend of March, with the venue’s “main hall” serving as the setting for the 2020 Big East Men’s Basketball Tournament.

However, on March 11, 2020, the real world dealt what would prove to be a knockout blow for not only Top Rank, but the sports world as a whole, at least for a little while. That very day, the World Health…