About us
Top Rank was established in 1973 by Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum. For more than 50 years, it has been boxing’s preeminent promotional company, creating strategic collaborations between athletes, sponsors, and television/streaming outlets.
From distributing globally impactful fights and innovative shoulder programming across a variety of platforms to creating unforgettable in-arena experiences for fans, staging high-profile events around the world, and developing generations of fistic legends, Top Rank is boxing’s undisputed industry leader.
From Ali to Fury
Top Rank has guided the careers of top international pay-per-view superstars and Hall of Famers, including Muhammad Ali, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Thomas Hearns, Alexis Arguello, Roberto Duran, George Foreman, Sugar Ray Leonard, Oscar De La Hoya, Miguel Cotto, Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Erik Morales, Vasiliy Lomachenko, and Tyson Fury.
Top Rank founder and CEO Bob Arum pioneered the model of selling televised fights via closed-circuit and pay-per-view. He went on to secure groundbreaking deals with HBO, Showtime, ABC, CBS, ESPN, and a host of other networks, exposing the sport to new generation of fans.
The Digital Arena
Top Rank has been ESPN's exclusive boxing content provider since July 2017. The partnership, which debuted with the Manny Pacquiao-Jeff Horn welterweight championship fight in Brisbane, Australia, has seen the sport’s biggest stars showcased on “The Worldwide Leader in Sports.” Top Rank’s suite of content currently airs on Sky Sports platforms in the UK and Ireland.
Today, Top Rank continues to lead the sport into the next wave of emerging technologies - providing their fans round the clock access to the world of boxing through their social media platforms and their FAST channel, Top Rank Classics. The channel, which is available on Pluto TV, Roku, and Tubi, provides a 24/7 channel dedicated to the showcasing the sport’s greatest fights and fighters.
