IMO Don King Really Didn't Respect Or Like Boxers

The anecdote about him having a fish tank full of money and telling them they could keep as much as they could fish out. That's pretty demeaning. The anecdote of him refusing to lend Larry Holmes fifty bucks.. That's pretty demeaning. The anecdote of him telling Tim Witherspoon they eat pork in a camp he set up, unlike in Muhammad Ali's camp. That's pretty demeaning. I could go on...

Tommy Gunn's manager in Rocky V, the worst Rocky of all, was based on Don King. Of course it was a caricature, just as Apollo Creed was a caricature of Muhammad Ali, but it captured King's essence.

I wonder if Oscar and Bob Arum are as uniquely awful as Don King. To the argument he gave us great fights. Our moms could have sold Muhammad Ali.

 

He was out for himself,as Most promoter s are/were.
The stepping over Joe Frazier to get Foreman says it all.

 

Perhaps. Don King was certainly a bad person. However to a large extent, King's negative image is largely due to his beef with HBO. They are the ones to populized the image of the evil promoter, who will do anything for a buck. Stuff like Only in America and other boxing documentaries for example.

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The awful promoter existed before King,. The protagonist's manager in Requiem For A Heavyweight bet on him to lose.

 

That's where he said I came with the champion and left with the champion when the champion were two different persons.. In the move the character who plays Belinda Ali said King, "Lives white, talks Black, and thinks green." She nailed him.

 

The Life and Crimes of Don King: The Shame of Boxing in America certainly paints him as an absolute SOB. I have a hard time believing most of it was fiction.

 

I saw the HBO documentary which was based on Robert Newfield's book. Is there anothet one? Thabk you in advance

 

What else would you expect from a freemason boxing promoter?

 

He's probably a sociopath, I doubt he cares much about anybody other than himself.

He's a smart guy but born to be a con man, if it wasn't boxers it would be someone else.

 

He killed two men.

 

Not sure, I've only read the book.

Cheers.

 

Always seemed like a nice guy. Carl, too.

 

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You have King, you have Arum, you have DiBella, you have Oscar. King seems the worst of the lot. They're both close to one hundred, but Arum still has juice. Oscar has a disollute personal life, but I never read about him screwing over boxers. I like to believe you can get rich without being a dick.