Why is Don King the Greatest Promoter in Boxing?
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Why is Don King the Greatest Promoter in Boxing?
Cause of the killer Jean Jackets he wears!!
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Originally Posted by killersheep
Maybe he has luck from the Devil.
He has that I do not what, that pretty much means he could sell ice to the Eskimo's, if he wanted. ;)
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Originally Posted by maracho
Man, Britkid. :coolclick:Quote:
Originally Posted by Britkid
he's not, both Bob Arum and Oscar De La Hoya are ranked above him IMO
Why?Quote:
Originally Posted by ElTerribleMorales
Arum, yes he has had an amazing career in boxing, and outside the sport; but de la Hoya has just started out. I think King is an equal of a Buffalo Bill or Tex Rickard; there maybe an argument to put Arum in the mix, but I cannot see any reason for de la Hoya being there... yet ;)
Why de la Hoya? Because he has done much more for boxing as a whole in the last 2 years than Don King. IMOQuote:
Originally Posted by Britkid
Golden Boy productions and The Contender do much more for bringing in new fans than Don King
This contenders stuff is not proper TV boxing is it? If it is the future, I want no part of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by killersheep
Yes de la Hoya has made an impressive start to his promotors career, but come back to me in 30 years when de la Hoya has proven himself amongst the elite for that amount time. When he has put together a 'Rumble in the Jungle' and a 'Thrilla in Manila'. Or put a card together, that sells out the 135,000 capcity Azetca stadium. Or kept the sport in America going (in the early 90s), whilst Tyson was away, beginning the Latino revolution by making Chavez a mainstream world star, despite JC Superstar not knowing English fluently... ;)
Oscar is getting pretty good at "selling ice to Eskimos himself" For instance, he talked Millie into going abstinant for five months and now letting him meditate for a few more off the coast of Puerto Rico; He got Mayorga and Don King to accept less than half the money in their last fight, He got his trainer to kick Margarito out of camp for punching to hard; He got boxrec to place all of his fighters in the top-ten and even over fighters they lost to; He has Hopkins, Mosely, and Barrera promoting him to the Latin and Afroamerican crouds; He has the white population adoring him even though he does not seem to promote or hire any white people; He tells the judge that he could not remember that girl because he had 500 girls in the last month and then gets off scott free; He partly got away with stealing the contender idea from Leonard and Stalone before it ever aired; Has everyone thinking he is a saint yet uses the Lord's name in vain on public T.V.; becomes quick friends with Dr. Phil; Sells his own books, paintings and songs; gets interviewed and invited on talk shows about 10 times more than any other boxing figure.
However he is still an angel compared to Don King.
Because he's VERY smart and completely amoral.Quote:
Originally Posted by drgoodlooking
Don King has robbed so many boxers for money over the decades and will probably rob many more before it's all over. But even after he swindles you you will still make more money than anybody else can get you. Oscar will become the number one promoter in due time, never liked him much in the ring but I think he will be a good promoter.
Here are both promoters in action and Oscar definately seems the better promoter to me.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=grOoeiV1A...de%20la%20hoya
Don does seem to condone Mayorga's disgusting antics as well.
Oscar didn't seem to me like he promoted a good fight for Bernard Hopkins.
Oh no, that really does make him worse than the convicted manslaughterer, numbers runner, cheating, crooked 'Lucius Sweet' (allegedly) :-\Quote:
Originally Posted by maracho
If de la Hoya really wants the title of Greatest Promotor, he is going to have to leave any conscience he has, at the front door.Quote:
Originally Posted by X
If De la Hoya wants to be the best promoter he'll have a heavyweight unification tourny! DK could do it, but he COULD fly a rocket ship to the moon too
He made a deal with the devil and sold his soul. How else you think a man can beat two murder cases and constanly rob fighters who are much bigger than him. You really think King's getto ass would be able to hang with white America without Satan's help.
Seemingly little things often say alot about a man.Quote:
Originally Posted by Britkid
To be more specific, it was some of the things he said right after the Trinidad fight.
I'm shocked nobody mentioned the hair :-\
It's ridiculous to even compare DK with ODLH. Whether you like King or not he's put on some of the biggest fights in history, and been at the top of the tree for years, (so he can get a better height to s**t on his fighters) ;).
Oscar's just starting out there's no comparison.
Don't blame that piece of crap on me. I ain't got nothing to do with Don King......LuciferQuote:
Originally Posted by maracho
The reason for the hair, Starr, is he's the only man Ohio sent to the electric chair who lived to talk about it. (Don King was convicted of manslaughter, only to recieve a full pardon years later after making donations to that state's governor's re-election fund. I don't think there was a connection though, do you?)Quote:
Originally Posted by Starr
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Yes historically Don King has been a better promoter, but
Like I said in my last post I think he has been better the last 2 years than Don.
Definately funny as hell.Quote:
Originally Posted by killersheep
I can neither confirm nor deny any connection ;DQuote:
Originally Posted by LuciferTheGreat
Don King is the Greatest!
because he has the ability to rob everyone around him...put past champions in the poor house and yet idiot fighters still flock to him like he is the messiah....and if he doesn't like what's going on he pressures boxing into creating new titles for his fighters..IBF and Larry Holmes ring any bells?..Quote:
Originally Posted by drgoodlooking