Whatever happened to Don King?

Or they seem even worse and even more evil as he laid the blueprint for how to corupt the sport for financial gain, and get away with it.
King should be acknowlaged for the fights he made i cant despute that, but the damage he did to the fighters he managed and the legacy/example he left/set promoters, has had as much a damaging effect.
Which out weighs the other can be disputed and will be for along time yet.
My own personal oppinion is that he has tarnished the history of boxing.

 

Met Don once ay the fights he has us all rocking with laughter. He;s the sort of guy you know is really a crook but you cannot help but like him

 

He robbed fighters way more than any other promoter, him and his son absolutely fleeced fighters earnings with them getting a fraction of what they were due. He is clearly on his own imo

 

Don King dealt in cold hard cash and it got him a long way. These fighters hear a lot of promises from a lot of people, but Don would make the promise and present the fighter with a briefcase full of cash. Fighter looks at three promises and only one comes with cash...Don King's.

This is how Don worked and he was very successful. Read this:

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/don-king-up-to-his-old-tricks-again-1.308406

In his 1995 book Only In America: The Life and Crimes of Don King, Jack Newfield relates the saga of how the electric-haired promoter once cleverly defused a pending $1.2 million Muhammad Ali lawsuit with a "magic suitcase" containing $50,000 in cash.

King had short-changed the great Ali by over a million dollars for his next-to-last fight, the inglorious 1980 loss to Larry Holmes, but a month after Ali had sued to recover the money, King summoned a henchman named Jeremiah Shabazz, who had been Ali's original Muslim teacher, to his office and handed him the suitcase.

"I want you to give this cash money to Ali," said King, "but only after you get him to sign this document."

The scheme worked, as King knew it would. To the consternation of his attorneys, who were not present for the meeting with Shabazz, Ali was so impressed by the sight of a bagful of greenbacks that he happily elected to drop the court case.

Turning the clock back 20 years, the World's Greatest Promoter dusted off the old trick last week in the process of poaching boxing's hottest commodity, WBC/IBF heavyweight champion Hasim Rahman, away from rival Cedric Kushner.

In the three weeks since his startling upset of Lennox Lewis in South Africa, Rahman had been the object of an intense bidding war between television networks.

In King's apocryphal version, the promoter had been dining in a New York Chinese restaurant earlier in the week when he opened a fortune cookie whose message read "Go Get Rahman. Him Ready."

Last Thursday night in New York, while Kushner and HBO vice president Kery Davis (who had a $5.3 million cashier's check for Rahman in his pocket) awaited Rahman's arrival at the annual Boxing Writers Association of America dinner, Rahman's place remained unoccupied. (Roberto Duran wound up eating Hasim's steak, as well as his own.)

The deal-breaker in the all-night negotiating session was King's old standby - flash cash. Although he also gave him a check for $4.5 million as part of his signing bonus, what turned Rahman's head that night was a duffel bag stuffed with $500,000 in hundred dollar bills.

By chance I happened to be staying at the same Manhattan hotel, and while I didn't know it until the next day, at 3 o'clock in the morning Rahman emerged from King's suite and knocked on the door of his trainer, Adrian Davis, no more than 20 yards from where I was sleeping. He unzipped the bag to show Davis the money, and then entrusted the swag to the trainer for overnight safekeeping.

The next morning Rahman, accompanied by a bodyguard, showed up to reclaim the duffel bag. The pair then made the four-hour drive to Rahman's Maryland home, where, after showing the loot to his wife, the fighter deposited it in a Baltimore bank. Then he turned around and drove back to New York, arriving in time for that afternoon's al fresco Felix Trinidad-William Joppy weigh-in at Bryant Park.

King, reluctant to steal the thunder from Saturday night's middleweight title fight, did not officially confirm Rahman's signing until Trinidad had safely disposed of Joppy. Rahman made his first public appearance as a King indentured servant at a Monday morning reception convened to formally announce John Ruiz' WBA heavyweight title defence against Evander Holyfield in Beijing on August 4.

 

This.

 

Whaaaa? I do not see evidence that you are a racist, but this is way WAY off.
Many nations have longer life expediencies than America, but not only was the black American life expectancy in thed 70's for many years-it has been going up.
By 2016 it was 75.6, within 3 & 1/2 years of whites.

Any group whose AVERAGE is not far from 80, has many many people exceeding 80.
Why did you believe otherwise? Do you live among very few blacks?
If you said this about ANY group reaching say 105, then I would say fine.
Though many more are hitting 100...
The evidence, verifiable in numerous other sources through a simple Google search.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/09/health/blacks-see-gains-in-life-expectancy.html

 

Don might be back soon. One of his guys holds the interim WBA heavyweight belt, if I am not mistaken.

 

no, they seem even more evil. being that he basically ruined the sport.

 

Your article backs up my main points:

"It is a bitter but basic fact in health research: Black Americans die at higher rates than whites from most causes, including AIDS, heart disease, cancer and homicide"

 

Legal problems (lawsuits from his boxers, charges from the IRS and FBI), age/health/family issues (death of his wife), bad times for boxing in general...

 

I like Don King he is a character the same can not be said about that Tosser Daddy's boy Eddie Hearn and fish eyes Warren .

 

He rebranded himself as "Al Haymon" somebody of whom only two pictures exist. And who's brother was a fighter promoted by...Don King!

Brilliant actually.

 

Not sure. Think it was when the Klitschko's visited him.Did you see the footage that showed King playing the piano? The Klitschko's were impressed. However, it was a piano that played automatically. King was using it to impress them. Maybe the rot was there then.