Who is the greatest promoter of all time?

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  1. Mr. STRUGG

    Mr. STRUGG Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Arum?
    Don king?
    floyd?
    Oscar?

    As much as i dont agree with him most of the time. Arum has given us the best fights out there. consistently.
     
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  2. Delupino

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    Don King, some may say unfortunately.
     
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  3. Mr. STRUGG

    Mr. STRUGG Well-Known Member Full Member

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    don king has tyson and julio ceasar chaves....maybe trinidad.

    Hes too inactive nowadays
     
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  4. Cisco Route

    Cisco Route He Who Says Nay banned

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    Don King
     
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  5. moparfan

    moparfan ESB's glass jawed fraud Full Member

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    Tex Rickard...!!!

    Brought the first live radio broadcast of a title fight

    Brought boxing its first million dollar fight

    Built Madison Square Garden

    Cross promoted boxing with other sports (Rickard owned the New York Rangers of the NHL) and the Public Announcer would mention upcoming fights during stoppages in the hockey game...!!!
     
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  6. C.J.

    C.J. Boxings Living Legend revered & respected by all Full Member

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    King & Arum love em or hate em theyve put on the best shows
     
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  7. Vanboxingfan

    Vanboxingfan Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Tex Rickard by a mile. He had the first $1M gate and he had stadiums that seated in excess of 100,000 people. Dempsey was making more than Babe Ruth, and of course you had Johnson - Jeffries, which was one of the most anticipated fights of all time.

    Here's a little blurb about him.

    As "the Father of Madison Square Garden," he promoted over 200 fights, including some of the most notable of the 20th century: the "Longest Fight," the "Great White Hope," fight, and the famous "Long Count" fight. Along the way, he rubbed shoulders with some of history's most renowned figures, including Teddy Roosevelt, Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, John Ringling, Jack Dempsey, and Gene Tunney
     
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  8. moparfan

    moparfan ESB's glass jawed fraud Full Member

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    :deal:deal:deal
     
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  9. 6'4south

    6'4south Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Probably Don King, for all the right and wrong reasons, ditto for Bon Arum also.
     
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  10. OvidsExile

    OvidsExile At a minimum, a huckleberry over your persimmon. Full Member

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    Don King had a great fifty year run, better than Arum in the same time period. There have been some good ones over the last century:

    Tex Rickard, Mike Jacobs (owned Madison Square Garden), Aileen Eaton (ran the LA scene), George Parnassus (specialized in lowerweights and South West), Sam Silverman (ran New England)

    Frank ****** and Jack Solomon ran things for about twenty years apiece in England.

    Wilfried Sauerland ran things for a while in Germany. Akihiko Honda in Japan.
     
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  11. OvidsExile

    OvidsExile At a minimum, a huckleberry over your persimmon. Full Member

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    Rickard was important, influential, and effective, but is he the greatest? He was like P.T. Barnum with his fingers in every entertainment medium. He promoted wrestling and other sports too. He promoted 200 fights, but Sam Silverman promoted 10,000. It's not purely a numbers game but the guys I've listed have all put together thousands of fights. Rickard promoted Dempsey, Akihiko Honda promoted Tyson, Arum and King promoted Ali, etc.
     
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  12. Mac mand

    Mac mand Guest

    Tyson fury
     
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  13. The_Ikon

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    Don King for all the right and wrong reasons. He is the promoter's promoter.
     
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  14. Ilikeboxing

    Ilikeboxing Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Don King.

    He put on all the fights without too much protection(until he ran out of boxers to exploit)
    He sold fights himself with his strange hair and personality.
     
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  15. Scar

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    Don King.
     
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