He made the biggest fights ever. Brought us some of the legends that we love today and has transcended the sport through 4 decades. King has the greatest stable of fighters and I dare you find another promoter that could match it, not even Al Haymon could build this: Muhammad Ali George Foreman Joe Frazier Larry Holmes Mike Tyson Felix Trinidad Marco Antonio Barrera Evander Holyfield Julio Cesar Chavez Roy Jones Jr. Ricardo Mayorga Andrew Golota Terry Norris Aaron Pryor Ricardo Lopez Bernard Hopkins Wilfred Benitez Roberto Duran Salvador Sanchez Wilfredo Gomez Alexis Arguello Carlos Zarate Mike McCallum Gerald McClellan Meldrick Taylor Tomasz Ademek Azuma Nelson Chris Byrd Hector Camacho Donovan Ruddock Chris Eubank on and on.........
he was a crook witherspoon was given 30k and change out of a million dollar purse if you did not sign for king he would freeze you out of a title shot a few fighters dids ok by him , but by and large he was bad for boxers.
i look at this list and i think/haven't seen none of these boxers listed have said anything nice about d king.
To get a title shot, or be in his "Stable List".....the fighter had to sign over a number of future fights to Don King to promote. It was hard for the average fighter to ever break out of the DK control......plus throw in some "shaky" decisions against fighters who were try to leave King....you always wondered what was "up & up".
It was either him , Arum, or the Cigar Boys. If your were a fighter you were getting **** over anyway. Just pick your poison. Arum does it the same way. Wonder why Cotto, Floyd, and Oscar have publically dissed him? Why is Manny Pacquiao still in a slave contract after generating billions for Top Rank? Don King is done. Arum still has a few horses in the race.
