Do you miss Don King?

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  1. Oakland Billy Smith

    Oakland Billy Smith Active Member banned Full Member

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    I feel like had he been promoting Deontay Wilder or even the Klitschkos there would be a lot more interest and media attention for the HWs...
    It's not like there havent been ANY marketable fighters in the HWs the last 20 years...
     
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  2. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Different era.
     
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  3. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    He made the early-mid 90's so much fun. But he was a dirtbag.
     
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  4. JackSilver

    JackSilver Boxing Addict Full Member

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    120 year old Bob Arum from the same era is still doing well in the game.
     
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  5. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    He doesn`t have any heavyweights that are global superstars in the way Tyson was when he was promoting by King.
     
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  6. Jackomano

    Jackomano Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Don King was a great promoter and from all of the fighter’s I’ve known personally the best pay guy. That said once his wife died his heart hasn’t really been in boxing anymore.
     
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  7. JackSilver

    JackSilver Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Arum didn’t have any heavyweight stars during the time King was at the time either but my point was that Arum has proved that it possible to have stayed relevant near the top of the sport today even if it’s is a different era as you said. Maybe King spent too much time focusing and controlling the heavyweight scene and when that control was lost with the rise of the Klitschkos, than so was Kings influence within the sport?
     
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  8. ETM

    ETM I thought I did enough to win. Full Member

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    Don King put on some unbelievable fight cards on PPV in the early 90s.
    He would have a Sat night line up with
    Azumah Nelson
    Terry Norris
    Felix Trinidad
    Julian Jackson
    With Chavez on top. It was criminal in a sense to have those legends fighting on undercards but from a fans point of view it was beyond great.
     
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  9. janitor

    janitor VIP Member Full Member

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    I miss him like the plague!
     
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  10. JackSilver

    JackSilver Boxing Addict Full Member

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    You were around for the plague?
     
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  11. Jel

    Jel Obsessive list maker Full Member

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    He had a heart?
     
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  12. Fergy

    Fergy Walking Dead Full Member

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    Agreed !
     
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  13. Fergy

    Fergy Walking Dead Full Member

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    Agreed! Total different times .Tyson time was massive and its never come close to being like that since .
     
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  14. Saad54

    Saad54 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    No.
     
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  15. The Morlocks

    The Morlocks Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Would you miss a brutal dance w/ syphilis? Or herpes?
     
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