Is Don King done for good?

Last weekend in New York, King’s two last heavyweight hopes — Bermane Stiverne and Eric Molina — were both knocked out.

He’s 86 years old and his last champion, IIRC, was Tavoris Cloud, who lost his title in 2013.

Since then, King’s been hanging on by a thread. That thread snapped with both of his heavyweight were eliminated. Stiverne is 39 and maybe has a few “he’s a former champ” paydays left, and Molina, a two-time loser in title fights, is 3-3 over his last six fights with three KO losses — his 2016 win over Tomas Adamek gave him a second act, but at 31 there’s no reason to believe he’ll ever be more than an opponent again.

So that would seem to be it. I can’t remember the last time King actually promoted a show all on his own — in his heyday he would have cards stacked with champions and contenders, some of whom were in the ring at 3 or 4 in the afternoon on shows that would run until midnight, because his roster was so stacked and he had obligations for them to fight however-many times a year.

It’s funny how he’s gone from being reviled and considered as a charicature of every single thing that is bad and evil about boxing to now bowing out as a semi-beloved old grandpa-of-boxing figure. He may be brought in from time to time as a hype man by some promoter or other to get some publicity for a show, but I think we can count him out for good now.

 

Haha, good point.

But whatever the case, he’s done forever now. I hope Don enjoys his retirement.

 

Now we have to settle for videos of fat Tyson Funny announcing a comeback while waddling down to the ice cream shop and calling it road work.