Top Rank, Inc. is a Las Vegas

Las Vegas metropolitan area

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 based boxing

Boxing

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 promotion company founded by Jabir Herbert Muhammad

Jabir Herbert Muhammad

Jabir Herbert Muhammad was an American businessman and co founder of Top Rank, Inc. also longtime manager of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali....

 and Bob Arum

Bob Arum

Robert "Bob" Arum is the founder and CEO of Top Rank, a professional boxing promotion company based in Las Vegas. He also worked for the US Attorney's Office for the southern district of New York in the tax division....

, which was incorporated in 1973. Since its founding, the company has promoted several world class fighters, such as Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali

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, JI Penalver, Oscar De La Hoya

Oscar de la Hoya

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, Roberto Durán

Roberto Durán

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, Joe Frazier

Joe Frazier

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, George Foreman

George Foreman

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, Marvin Hagler

Marvin Hagler

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, Manny Pacquiao

Manny Pacquiao

Emmanuel "Manny" Dapidran Pacquiao, PLH is a Filipino professional boxer and politician. He is the first eight-division world champion; having won six world titles, as well as the first to win the lineal championship in four different weight classes. He was named "Fighter of the Decade" for the...

, Sugar Ray Leonard

Sugar Ray Leonard

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, Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

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, Erik Morales

Erik Morales

Érik Isaac Morales Elvira is a Mexican professional boxer. He is the first Mexican born boxer in history to win a world title in four weight classes and is the current WBC Light Welterweight Champion...

, Thomas Hearns

Thomas Hearns

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, Paulie Ayala

Paulie Ayala

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, Iran Barkley

Iran Barkley

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, Michael Carbajal, Eric "Butterbean" Esch

Eric Esch

Eric Scott Esch is an American heavyweight boxer, kick-boxer, professional wrestler, and mixed martial artist commonly referred to as Butterbean....

, Larry Holmes

Larry Holmes

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, Ray Mancini

Ray Mancini

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, Carlos Monzón

Carlos Monzón

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, Terry Norris

Terry Norris

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, Gabriel Ruelas

Gabriel Ruelas

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, Rafael Ruelas

Rafael Ruelas

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, James Toney

James Toney

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, Mike Lee and many others. The company has promoted such superfights as Hagler vs Leonard, Chavez vs De La Hoya, Holyfield vs Foreman, Foreman vs Moorer, Leonard vs Hearns, Hagler vs Hearns, Ali vs Frazier II and both Ali vs Spinks fights. The company also promoted George Foreman's comeback to regain the world championship, culminating in the knockout of then IBF

International Boxing Federation

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/WBA

World Boxing Association

The World Boxing Association is a boxing organization that sanctions official matches, and awards the WBA world championship title at the professional level. It was previously known as the National Boxing Association before changing its name in 1962...

 champion Michael Moorer

Michael Moorer

Michael Lee Moorer is a retired American boxer who is a former light heavyweight and heavyweight World Champion.-Biography:Moorer is a native of Monessen, Pennsylvania, which is in Southwestern Pennsylvania.-Professional career:...

 on November 5, 1994. Recently the company has focused primarily on Hispanic fighters.

Top Rank Boxing on ESPN

Top Rank Boxing and then-fledgling ESPN

ESPN

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 formed a partnership to bring a weekly boxing to the cable network which culminated with the first regularly televised boxing series since 1964. The first event was held on April 10, 1980 in Atlantic City

Atlantic City, New Jersey

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, when middleweight Frank Fletcher decisioned Ben Serrano. The now defunct Top Rank Boxing on ESPN was the longest running cable series and weekly boxing series in history, after celebrating its 16th consecutive year in 1996.

Legal disputes

Top Rank was involved in a legal dispute with Golden Boy Promotions

Golden Boy Promotions

Golden Boy Promotions, Inc. is a combat sport promotional firm started by former boxer six-division world champion Oscar De La Hoya...

 (owned by De La Hoya, whom the company formerly promoted) involving eight-division world champion

Septuple champion

In different sports when a sportsman wins seven crowns, titles, medals, belts or another distinctions is called a Septuple Champion.-Boxing:In boxing, a septuple champion is a boxer who has won world titles in seven different weight classes....

 Manny Pacquiao

Manny Pacquiao

Emmanuel "Manny" Dapidran Pacquiao, PLH is a Filipino professional boxer and politician. He is the first eight-division world champion; having won six world titles, as well as the first to win the lineal championship in four different weight classes. He was named "Fighter of the Decade" for the...

 which was settled to allow for future Top Rank fighters facing Golden Boy Promotions fighters starting in Oct 2007 with Manny Pacquiao vs Marco Antonio Barrera 2, Miguel Cotto vs Shane Mosley in November 2007, Pacquiao vs Juan Manuel Márquez 2 on March 8, Bernard Hopkins Vs Kelly Pavlik in Nov 08, De La Hoya vs Pacquiao in Dec 08, Mosley Vs Antonio Margarito in Jan 2009, and Pacquiao vs Ricky Hatton in May 2009.

Top Rank owner Bob Arum has also had a long-standing feud with owner of Don King Promotions, Don King. The two have been accused of having a strangle hold over the sport of boxing and have had several altercations over the forty plus years they have been competing with each other.