Bob Arum still believes in Jared Anderson. Despite the unbeaten, hugely talented and exciting young heavyweight’s recent legal troubles – “The Real Big Baby” racing his car at excess speed and being detained by the police back in March, Anderson charged with a third-degree felony – the Hall of Fame promoter is still sure the 24 year old will become “the next great heavyweight.”
Arum, speaking with Box Nation, said 2026 will be the year he expects Anderson to make his move.
“He’s a young kid, a good-looking kid, and what he did was wrong, racing cars and so forth. A lot of these kids do that,” Arum said of Anderson, who returns to action on April 13, against Ryad Merhy in Corpus Christi. “But it wasn’t as though he was beating people up in a bar or stealing things. He was behaving the way some 23, 24 year old kids do – doing stupid things. So now thank God he’s lost his driver’s licence so he can’t get…
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