Which fighters held onto their money?

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Art Aragon and Tony Lopez both did well as bail bondsmen.

 

Those not managed or promoted by Don King.

 

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Foster left what he had to Jimmy.

 

He invested in a garage and livery service and was comfortable in his old age.

 

Don King doesn't control how a boxer spends his money. Don King made 100 boxers millionaires. What they chose to do with their money after they received it is on them.

I think we all should've learned that by now.

Mike Tyson's purses (negotiated by King) for each of his MGM Grand fights were $30 million (And Tyson's purse was close to $20 million for the Lewis fight after he left King). Tyson filed for bankruptcy. Had nothing to do with King. Even Tim Witherspoon settled a court case against King and received millions for fights where he said he was shorted. And Tim blew it all within months.

Don King's first champion was Larry Holmes, who was and remains a multi-millionaire. Chris Byrd, one of King's last heavyweight champions, is a multi-millionaire. John Ruiz is a millionaire.

Trinidad was a millionaire (although someone in this thread said he lost his money, but King didn't lose it). Devon Alexander remains a millionaire. There are more. But it's easy to point out guys who earned millions in the eighties who fought for King who are broke. And they didn't lose their money because of him.

Trevor Bryan, King's last champ, is the WBA regular beltholder. Before the COVID outbreak stopped everything, King won the purse bid to stage Bryan-Charr for $2 million.

So you can add a couple more guys who will get close to the millionaire mark, thanks to King. And, frankly, neither deserves to spilt that much. It's just about getting Bryan in the Joshua sweepstakes.

Hell, Cooney is still living off the $10 million payday he got for the Holmes fight.

Even people who win the lottery don't stay millionaires because they blow their money. It's not the State Lottery Department's fault if they blow their money.

 

As champion Witherspoon received a fraction of what Bruno the challenger got
.King is a robbing lowlife.

 

Preparedness and intelligence are not connected.

 

Not by me because he wasn't using a cliché.

 

I was never trying to stop you from thinking what you want to think, just like I never said I disliked Archie Moore.

It's interesting that you haven't answered a single one of my points.

 

We differ on that point. I think the ability to plan ahead is indisputably a lesser included element of intelligence.

 

I don't take him at all as a man that's trying to appear to be clever. I see his personality as natural. I've heard it before, when a black person uses his above average to extensive vocabulary but doesn't speak with a standardize vernacular, people say that they're trying too hard. But those people read, listen and they comprehend. Please don't throw a fit because I'm not accusing you of racism. You see what I you see but I felt it necessary to give my perspective because there are some distorted world views.

 

I don't hold it against a person, like possibly Archie for instance, who uses self-education to improve his vocabulary in an effort to better present himself. In the hands of a so-called educated person, usage of big words might be pretentious depending on the context, but to me Archie does not fall in that category.

 

Wasn't Aragon also a pretty successful actor ?

 

As I understood it, Witherspoon's guarantee was £1m, ($2m at least in 1986), but his net after paying King and his odious son Carl their cut he cleared less than £100,000.

 

Don King would have a field day with you. Apparently you have a brain the size of a pea if you believe half of this drivel.