Why does everybody hate Don King ?

[Big Dick Whittington]

Think the guy gets a bad press he's no angel for sure but just the meanest Pirahna in the tank .
HBO and Showtime like to cream off the top of the sport yet never get accused of shitting on fighters .
How many fighters get the shit end of the stick because they are not good tv? How many dodgy decisions on HBO fight cards ? Nobody ever blames HBO but soon as Don King's involved everybody's up in arms .

What's the difference ?

[Plopeater]

King did time for manslaughter the scumbag

[Drago]

dunno why everyones hates him always seems to of been the same

[Gandalf]

He has had a checkered history. For me he seems to get more agreeable with age. But I could never really like a promoter.

[JazMerkin]

Well apart from the two men he has killed (see Don King (boxing promoter) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

there is how he treated Tyson (who is hardly an angel yes, but King abused him still)

how he treated Gerald McLellan

his corruption with those at the WBC

his jury-tampering & involvement with senior US Mafia figures (guess who gets some of our money from the PPVs)

his chumminess with George W. Bush

there's probably more I can't think of right now.

I don't hate him anywhere near as much as Bob Arum though

[Drago]

how come u hate arum?

[brocktonblockbust]

uhh, let's see....could it be because he killed someone? No, then it must be because he has exploited and ripped off many fighters, to mention just one more thing.

[JazMerkin]

how come u hate arum?

There's many reasons, I won't go on about them all, but the main one is his happiness to financially support and do business with Apartheid South Africa throughout the 1980s even as the world's governments and major businesses boycotted them. His alleged comments to an HBO executive about leaving Latinos and Blacks to fight in the ring whilst they made all the money as well, as I definitely believe he said that. He's just been overshadowed by King's corruption, because he doesn't seek the limelight as much as ol' Don.

[rjj tszyu]

Although I don't really like Don King he can be more entertaining than the whole of the HW division at the moment just with the shit he talks! He makes Muhammad Ali seem quiet at times.

[Kev]

Well apart from the two men he has killed (see Don King (boxing promoter) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

there is how he treated Tyson (who is hardly an angel yes, but King abused him still)

how he treated Gerald McLellan

his corruption with those at the WBC

his jury-tampering & involvement with senior US Mafia figures (guess who gets some of our money from the PPVs)

his chumminess with George W. Bush

there's probably more I can't think of right now.

I don't hate him anywhere near as much as Bob Arum though

ahahaha that has to be the funniest start to a refutation ever

[Taeth]

Most promoters for all their faults care about their fighters, and want them to do well. Don King wants to do well himself, he doesn't care about his fighters nor does he care about their well being.

[holmcall]

King did time for manslaughter the scumbag

Actually, he killed two.

[holmcall]

how come u hate arum?

There's many reasons, I won't go on about them all, but the main one is his happiness to financially support and do business with Apartheid South Africa throughout the 1980s even as the world's governments and major businesses boycotted them. His alleged comments to an HBO executive about leaving Latinos and Blacks to fight in the ring whilst they made all the money as well, as I definitely believe he said that. He's just been overshadowed by King's corruption, because he doesn't seek the limelight as much as ol' Don.

An add his supprt of Plaster Gloves!!

[match]

Three of the most high profile cases of corrupt decisions were Don King fights in which the fighter who got screwed was a non Don King fighter who refused to sign over options to him before the bouts:
Whitaker-Chavez
Lewis-Holyfield I
De la Hoya-Trinidad

[holmcall]

Tom Hauser used to vilify him; now he loves him. Go figure??