Arum, Top Rank To Focus On Staging Small Cards Without Fans

Top Rank Chair Bob Arum and the boxing promotion have "turned their attention to staging smaller cards that would not involve a live audience," according to Steve Kim of ESPN.com. Arum said, "What we're doing is looking at facilities, including our gym, where the guys would have to train. ... If you clean your gyms and you just let a limited number of people in to train, and then you bring everybody to the location, put them in a hotel and keep testing them, you can get it done." Arum earlier this week had "publicly expressed interest in perhaps having fights in Florida, where WWE events were recently deemed 'essential' by Gov. Ron DeSantis." Kim noted "another option for Top Rank is the UFC APEX in Las Vegas, which opened last summer." It serves as the production facility for the UFC and "has the capability of staging fights" (ESPN.com, 4/15).