Huck vs Afoabi III Waits on King

Looking forward to this fight.

Can see Ola sneek it in a close and controversial points win.

Miss the Marco Huck fight nights on Setanta!

 

K2 375k

 

Arsland put a serious beating on Huck, like Mand says Huck looked really flat.

If he performs like that against Ola he'll get beat, should be another war.

War Ola!!!

 

How do these purse bids work? I don't understand them fully. Are only certain fights put up for bid?

 

****ing Don King, why is this bellend still alive.

Was scheduled for May 11th but no doubt there's not a prayer of that now.

Hopefully Sauerland get it, least they'll put on a reasonable undercard.

 

Mandatory fights go to a purse bid. It's a formal thing with deadlines and such ran by the relevant sanctioning body, British, European, one of the worlds. Other fights it gets a bit more confusing, usually it's one fighters promoter stumping up the money and doing the show, sometimes multiple promoters compete to stage it just like a mandatory purse bid.

 

WTF is Don King doing in the picture? :huh

I figured the fall of his last two dominoes (Cloud and K9) would effectively mean the end of him promoting events involving world titles.

Can't keep a bad man down, I guess.


He is only allotting 300k for Ola? :-( The minimum of the purse bid itself.

 

I hope the fighters get the 1.5 mil but can see sauerland getting this ultimately

 

hauser wrote a good article recently about king and his decline,manages to make you pity don king

Azad Championship Report - Don King in the Twilight

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By Thomas Hauser

Don King arrived at Barclays Center for the March 9th IBF 175-pound title fight between Bernard Hopkins and Tavoris Cloud shortly after 8:00 p.m.

King will be 82 years old on August 20th, but he has the physical presence and vitality of a man half his age. His large bulky frame, Cheshire Cat grin, booming voice, and high-pitched laugh suggest a force of nature.

Wherever King goes, he’s encapsulated in a bubble of public attention. Everyone, from high-ranking corporate executives to men and women on the street, stop and stare and are drawn to his side.

In the September 2, 1974 issue of Sports Illustrated, Mark Kram wrote, “Don King is big, black, and hardly beautiful, a 50-carat setting of sparkling vulgarity and raw energy, a man who wants to swallow mountains, walk on oceans, and sleep on clouds.”


(Azad Championship Report)



That was mainstream America’s introduction to King. Two months later, Muhammad Ali dethroned George Foreman in Zaire with Don playing a key role in the promotion. In the decades that followed, King promoted more than 500 world championship fights. At one point, Don King Productions could lay claim to promoting seven of the 10 largest pay-per-view fights in history (as gauged by total buys) and 12 of the top 20 highest-grossing live boxing gates in the history of Nevada.

King has promoted Ali, Foreman, Joe Frazier, Larry Holmes, Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Julio Cesar Chavez, Felix Trinidad, Roy Jones, and dozens of other Hall of Fame fighters. He’s one of the few people in boxing today who transcend the sport. His name and face are more recognizable than those of Floyd Mayweather Jr. or any other active fighter.

“People come up to me all the time, put their babies in my arms, and ask me to kiss them,” King chortles. “That doesn’t happen to [Top Rank founder] Bob Arum or [Golden Boy Promotions CEO] Richard Schaefer.”

Boxing fans are used to seeing King in a tuxedo on fight night, a shining apparition draped in bling that seems to reflect off everything from the top of his hair down to his black patent leather shoes.

At Barclays, King had a different look. The promoter was wearing red-white-and-blue jogging shoes, maroon corduroy pants, a blue shirt, an American flag-themed tie, and a rhinestone-studded blue denim jacket accessorized by three “Obama” buttons. The jacket (one of three celebrating America that the promoter owns) was badly frayed. By contrast, King’s fingernails were impeccably manicured. He had an unlit cigar in one hand and miniature flags representing two dozen nations in the other. The name of each country was written at the base of its respective flagstick.

There was a time when it didn’t matter a whole lot to King who won or lost a big fight because he controlled both fighters. That time is long gone. Now it’s rare for Don to control even one combatant in a major bout. Cloud was under contract to King, but the Hopkins fight was the last under their promotional agreement. The assumption was that, win or lose, Tavoris would soon be gone. It was also deemed possible that this would be King’s last fight on HBO.

What happened to King’s power?

For starters, he was a prisoner of his own success. What had worked in the past stopped working as well as it had before. But King had enough money and enough trappings from the glory years that he wasn’t forced to adapt. The times changed and he didn’t change with them.

King is into control. He has always been hands-on in every area of his business. He likes everything to run through him and chooses not to share all his tricks of the trade with anyone. Thus, he never had a strong number two to help with the heavy lifting or guide him in new directions.

Don had always played leverage to the hilt. For years, control of the heavyweight champion (Ali, Holmes, Tyson) and the heavyweights beneath them was his most valuable asset. Then he lost that control. He managed to thrive afterward with fighters like Felix Trinidad and Julio Cesar Chavez but the power dynamic in boxing was shifting to favor the premium cable television networks. Network executives found other promoters easier to deal with than King. After Don took Mike Tyson to Showtime in the mid-1990s, HBO made a decision to license fewer fights from him. Then King lost Tyson and Showtime moved away from him too. Eventually, King no longer had a fighter who network executives felt they absolutely needed and HBO began the process of helping to build Golden Boy.

Also, whatever corners King had cut as part of his business model (and there were many), other promoters began cutting with an even sharper razor. The sanctioning bodies found new suitors to occupy the place on their balance sheets where King had once been. The tentacles of these promoters soon reached throughout the boxing industry as Don’s once had.

Meanwhile, King’s reputation was catching up with him. National attention focused on him in a critical way. Elite fighters became wary of signing with him. He was subjected to closer legal scrutiny than other promoters and, in some instances, held to a higher standard.

And finally, Don got old. People slow down at a certain age. There are no 80-year-old international chess champions. At a certain age, men and women think one fewer move ahead than they used to.
http://www.maxboxing.com/news/max-boxing-news/azad-championship-report---don-king-in-the-twilight
more here

 

If Huck wins he needs to give Arslan a rematch.

 

Kalle Sauerland already said that they want to give Arslan a rematch after the Afolabi fight (if Hukc wins this).

 

Its not the only unwelcome intrusion Don King has recently made into the cruiserweight division. Lebedev-Chambers was on the cards until DK got involved & got the WBA to force a Lebedev-Guillermo Jones fight instead.

I hope the murdering, robbing old ******* retires sooner rather than later