Arum offers insight on Valero situation

Head of Top Rank Promotions and promoter of Edwin Valero, Bob Arum has weighed in and offered his insight on the Edwin Valero tragedy.

Arum who only promoted Valero for two fights may have been aware of the problems that were coming as Akihiko Honda the Japanese promoter warned him that Valero had serious issues whilst living in Japan.

Arum said,

“There’s no need, no reason to play the blame game here. There were a lot of people, including his boxing manager (Jose Castillo) and Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, who tried to help this troubled guy out. I’m sure that Chavez and the government will help those two children (ages five and seven) who are left behind and now with a murdered mother and a father who killed her and then took his own life.

“I was shocked, really shocked, when he murdered the wife but I was not shocked to hear this morning that he killed himself.

“I really figured it would end this way, starting from when he came down (from drugs and/or alcohol) and he realized what he had done to the wife.

“So am I shocked that then killed himself, no I am not, because I believed he then realized he could either kill himself or spend the rest of his life in a prison cell,”

Compiled with quotes from Boxing Examiner.

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