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The Top Rank promoter has three straight Saturdays of fights coming, and bigger ideas for the featured players.

Photo by Mikey Williams/Top Rank Inc via Getty Images During a video interview captured by ESPN, Shakur Stevenson — who is scheduled to fight Jeremia Nakathila this weekend — reasserts that Oscar Valdez is the fight he wants next, saying he fully intends to call out Valdez on television as well as immediately approach his Top Rank promoter to get the fight made. “I’m willing to get right back in the ring,” said Stevenson. “I’m saying this on camera, make sure this goes somewhere and put it out somewhere. I’m willing to get back in the ring September, October — whatever time...

You saw it last month, when the promoter was interviewed and asked about his welterweight ace, Terence Crawford. And you saw it years before, when the Brooklyn-born promoter sought to protect his turf as rival Al Haymon worked to make his larger. To people who don’t treat business like Bob does, it can seem “personal.” But it is useful to not simply cherry pick Arum’s “greatest hits” of verbal volleys. Arum speaks his mind, and he is arguably due more credit than he commonly receives when he offers up a surprising take on a match that Top Rank is offering.