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For Controversial Don King, Everything Was Never Going to Be Enough
As a lifelong boxing fan, over the years I’ve been privileged to meet, and interview, some of the biggest names in the “sweet science”—including championship fighters, trainers, writers and promoters—in New York and Milwaukee.
Included are boxers Muhammad Ali, Charles (Sonny) Liston, Floyd Patterson, Jose Torres, Gerald McClellan and Milwaukee’s Orville Pitts, LeRoy Allen and boxer-trainer Baby Joe Gans; trainer Army Sgt. Tommie Johnson; writers Jack Newfield, Wallace Matthews and Mark Kriegel, and flamboyant promoter Don King.
Along with Ali, the controversial King was, by far, the most famous. And, by far, the very best fun I had was spent with King in person in New York and Cleveland, and in Milwaukee as one of my most popular, high-profile telephone guests on WNOV-AM radio’s “Carter McGee Report” in 1994.
During the latter, I asked King if he’d consider staging a heavyweight title bout outdoors at Milwaukee County Stadium. His boisterous reply: “Absolutely, Dick. And I p
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Don King
American boxing promoter (born 1931)
This article is about the boxing promoter. For other people, see Don King (disambiguation).
Donald King (born August 20, 1931) is an American boxingpromoter, known for his involvement in several historic boxing matchups.
King's career highlights include, among multiple other enterprises, promoting "The Rumble in the Jungle" and the "Thrilla in Manila". King has promoted some of the most prominent names in boxing, including Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Larry Holmes, Tomasz Adamek, Roberto Duran, Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Chris Byrd, John Ruiz, Julio César Chávez, Ricardo Mayorga, Andrew Golota, Bernard Hopkins, Félix Trinidad, Roy Jones Jr., Azumah Nelson, Gerald McClellan, Marco Antonio Barrera, Salvador Sanchez, Wilfred Benitez, Wilfredo Gomez and Christy Martin. Some of these boxers sued him for allegedly defrauding them. Mike Tyson was quoted as saying, "He did more bad to black fighters than any white promoter ever in the history of boxing."[1]
King has been charged with killing two people in
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King, Don 1931–
1931-
American boxing promoter
With his trademark "gravity-defying" hair, the image of Don King has hovered over professional boxing since he helped put together the "Rumble in the Jungle" in 1974, in which Muhammad Ali regained his championship title from George Foreman . All the elements that have marked King's career came together in his first big match: brilliant showmanship, the ability to massage outsized egos, and shady financing that left a number of people—though not Don King—unpaid and unsure where the money went. Since then, King's legend has grown to the point where his own fame, with a few exceptions, eclipses the various heavyweight champions and challengers he's promoted.
Early Years
Donald King was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on August 20, 1931, in a Depression-era ghetto. On December 7, 1941, King's father was killed in an explosion at the steel factory where he worked. With the small insurance settlement, Don King's mother Hattie relocated the family to a middle-class neighborhood. When the money ran out, Hattie began
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