Thirty-four years ago, the boxing promoter Bob Arum was having lunch at the Friars Club with Carlos Barba, the manager of a Newark-based Spanish-language television station that would eventually become the broadcasting giant Univision.
Arum was bemoaning the slow ticket sales for his upcoming fight at Madison Square Garden between Davey Moore, a young middleweight champion from the Bronx, and Roberto Durán, the wildly popular ex-lightweight and welterweight champion from Panama.