Don King claims George Foreman threated to drop out the day before the Rumble fight

Some wild quotes in there...

Welp, that didn't go as planned.

Unfamiliar with that bit of history.

'92 Holmes might have something to say about that.

 

"'92 Holmes might have something to say about that"

I'm sure he'd have a lot to say about that just not in a boxing ring.

 

They were signed to fight in '99. The money fell through, but they'd both signed.

 

There are a lot of guys, over the years, that threaten to pull out at the last minute, for a variety of reasons. Ray Robinson was notorious for that, trying to get more money. A guy that was once the head of the Arizona boxing commission went to Minneapolis to fight Pat O'Connor and said that he would "try to win" unless he got another $1500. I know a guy that made 50k to be there and be ready in case Butterbean pulled out of his fight against Larry Holmes, And that happens more often than you might think.

 

Didn't George say in his autobiography something about Don King coming up with the idea to make him limp as a threat that he might drop out near the time or something like that? I thought I remembered him joking about how he limped on one foot the way into a place to promote the fight and then the other foot on the way out because he forgot which one he said he'd limped on and was not expecting the instruction from King to do it in the first place.

 

I… I don’t know, I can’t tell if you’re lucid or not.

 

Oooh, who was going to step in if Butterbean didn’t keep the date with Holmes?