Just read Don King's book for the first time

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  1. SuzieQ49

    SuzieQ49 The Manager Full Member

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    Don King is perhaps the most egotistical, ruthless, disloyal, corrupt tyrant I have ever read about.....Oh and he is also a cold blooded killer....BUT


    He is one of the smartest business minds I have ever read about. Street Smarts, Savvy, Public Speaking, Salesman...There is no one that can match Don King in this capacity. I gotta give the scumbag credit...he really built himself up from nothing to who he is today. Probably the only tiny thing I respect about the man. He has been way to evil to many people for me(and stomped a pleading sam garrett to death in cold blood in 66) to even consider me being a fan of his, but one thing I am sure of is boxing would not have been the same without him. For the first time, I really felt like I got into the business side of the boxing world in a in depth look. I got to see what went on behind closed doors....things got very ugly. Things got very corrupt. Things always fell apart. Yet somehow during all this turmoil, Don King always came out the winner. There will never be another man like him. When he passes on, I doubt many people will mourn, but they will remember.
     
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  2. SLAKKA

    SLAKKA Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Don't leave out taking lottsa $$$$$$ outta apartite South Africa.
    Jessie Jackson diden't have much to say about that one.
     
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  3. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    100% credit. From nothing to something.

    Still, he's an animal, **** him.

    No contradiction there.
     
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  4. lufcrazy

    lufcrazy requiescat in pace Full Member

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    Agree with every word mate. If ever someone has made a success story out of charisma and opportunism, it's him.
     
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  5. salty trunks

    salty trunks Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Many high profiel attorneys have said King was the smartest person they ever dealt with. He was very wise and its proof as he said he was an urchin of the ghetto. He came very very far to success and thats something that always empowered him to step over people, even the innocent. King was and still is a total piece of crap who would sell his mother for a buck, as his former best friend once said.
     
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  6. wrimc

    wrimc Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Which book?
     
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  7. exocet76

    exocet76 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I completely agree, the guy is one dodgy mofo. However he is clearly one of the very sharpest men to have been in the sport.

    I don't like him as a human being but to come from nothing serving time for murder and then getting in with Ali and building an empire off the back of that?

    That to me shows brains and determination, only in America!! Where the **** bags get to the top!
     
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  8. SLAKKA

    SLAKKA Boxing Addict Full Member

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    meanwhile your up to your ears in nationwide riots
     
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  9. Foreman Hook

    Foreman Hook ☆☆☆ G$ora ☆☆☆ Full Member

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    Really how many people get away with only 3 years in prison for murdering 2 men? :think

    Dung "Ex Parte" King was one slippery muthapukka. :smoke
     
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  10. SuzieQ49

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    Because he paid $ 30,000 on the streets to the witnesses to flee/people to threaten the witnesses. He also tried to bribe Officer Tonney on two different occasions. Lastly, Don King was originally going to be sentenced to life in prison for the 1966 murder, but after being convicted, the judge(who was a former cleveland police officer) suspended the life with parole conviction to a much lesser sentence. He did so without ANYONE present except King's Lawyer. Why did he do this? Pretty Simple..Don King got to him.
     
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  11. Foreman Hook

    Foreman Hook ☆☆☆ G$ora ☆☆☆ Full Member

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    I wonder how Heavyweight boxing would of been different if $mooth Kriminal King was in jail??? :think It was gonna be like 80 years 2nd degree murder charge for his 2nd murder, so even with proper good behaviour, King would of been in prison from 1966-2006 with a 50% reduced sentance time. :scaredas:
     
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  12. he grant

    he grant Historian/Film Maker

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    Jack Newfield , who wrote the book, was an old school liberal journalist and truly could not stand King ... th HBO movie staring Ving Rhames was very good as well ..
     
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  13. exocet76

    exocet76 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Nationwide Riots?

    Are you smoking crack? What does that have to do with what we are taking about?

    For your information we are not rioting and have not rioted since last August, thanks for your concern though.

    I don't know whether you live in a cave, but you may have noticed civil unrest ALL over the world over the last couple of years, people are getting ****ed off with the way things are being run(banking).

    I am still at a loss as to why you are so defensive? Is he your Grandad? if so sorry for causing offense, but your Grandad brutally murdered a disabled person, and then proceeded to leech of every person he dealt with ****ing people over left, right and centre for decades.

    Like I said "Only in America" which ironically was the name of the film they did years ago on King.
     
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  14. SLAKKA

    SLAKKA Boxing Addict Full Member

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    u said alot more than that so don't be a weasel about it being OK

    That to me shows brains and determination, only in America!! Where the **** bags get to the top![/QUOTE]
     
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  15. lufcrazy

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    How much did the book go into his raping of tim spoon?
     
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