Don King - probably the most sued individual in boxing

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  1. kelics

    kelics Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Tyson, Bowe, Frank Waran, Lennox Lewis - all of them sued Don King but lost their cases, that guy must be really ****ing smart.

    Anyone else sued him ?
     
  2. Larryboys

    Larryboys Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Chris Byrd
    Terry Norris
    I think Larry Holmes did too.
     
  3. kelics

    kelics Well-Known Member Full Member

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    i dont understand how he gets away with all that.. i dont think he got sued for no reason :lol:
     
  4. Phys

    Phys Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Tyson, Ali, Qawi, Witherspoon and others.
     
  5. Big George

    Big George Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    That's always debatable. Arum and ODLH are way up there too. But unlike Arum, King has never been caught fixing fights.
     
  6. cool-cat

    cool-cat Well-Known Member Full Member

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    tim witherspoon sued him for 25million

    watched a documentary last night and witherspoon said he only got 90,000 for the bruno fight where as Bruno got 900,000
     
  7. DDDUUDDDEE

    DDDUUDDDEE Undisputed Ambien (taker) Full Member

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    He's a smart guy Don King, think he know's every legal trick in the book by now.
     
  8. Joe.Boxer

    Joe.Boxer Chinchecker Full Member

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    Tyson got $14 million off him.
     
  9. DJAdAmS

    DJAdAmS Ex-Army Middleweight Full Member

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    King has been involved in several litigation cases with boxers that were focused on fraud. They include a 1980 trial in which Muhammad Ali sued King for underpaying him $1.2 million for a fight with Larry Holmes. Ali settled for $50,000. Tim Witherspoon sued King and won $900,000. Mike Tyson sued King for $100 million, alleging the boxing promoter cheated him out of millions over more than a decade. It was settled out of court for $14 million.

    In May 2005, King was sued by Lennox Lewis, who wanted $385 million from the promoter, claiming King used threats to pull Tyson away from a rematch with Lewis. Terry Norris settled a lawsuit out of court against Don King for breach of contract for $7.5 million. In early 2006, Chris Byrd sued Don King for breach of contract and the two eventually settled out of court under the condition that Byrd would be released from his contract with King.

    Got all this info from wiki i like the bit tyson says about him.

    Mike Tyson, the former undisputed World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, says of his former manager, "(King is) a wretched, slimy, reptilian mother****er. This is supposed to be my 'black brother' right? He's just a bad man, a real bad man. He would kill his own mother for a dollar. He's ruthless, he's deplorable, he's greedy, and he doesn't know how to love anybody.
     
  10. BoxingDomain

    BoxingDomain Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    King is scum, but at the same time I think you have to put part of the blame on many of the fighters.

    Why?

    Well, because King usually wins in court, that means King followed the contract as it was written and signed. I think you have a lot of fighters signing stuff, and they don't even know what it really says. These fighters should have had multiple attorneys look it over, and explain everything to them....but they didn't do that. They just took Kings word and signed on the line...bad move.
     
  11. BoxingDomain

    BoxingDomain Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    See post #10.
     
  12. DigMona

    DigMona Member Full Member

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    I saw that as well. Didn't Witherspoon sign a blank contract and employed King's son as his manager? ****ing idiot!
     
  13. Boom1989

    Boom1989 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Lewis and King both work with Judd Bernstein.

    Who was defended by Bernstein as Lennox sued Don?
     
  14. Zakman

    Zakman ESB's Chinchecker Full Member

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    What about that Ring Tournament in the late 70s? Wasn't there some fight-fixing, bribing of judges, etc. going on there?
     
  15. PolishPummler

    PolishPummler Obsessed with Boxing banned

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