Why does everybody hate Don King ?

[Big Dick Whittington]

I aggree , with alot thats wrote above , it just seems Don King is easy to hate we also assume there's funny business everytime somebody gets a a bum decision in Vegas !
what did King do to Tyson that he didnt do for Holyfield ?
Im sick of hearing about poor hard done by Mike Tyson who was matched soft and lavished with $300 dollars ! Did Don King force him to rape that girl ? Don King showed errors of judgement but to suggest he wanted Tyson to fuck up is ludicrus. Don King promotes Evander Holyfield and is still making him money and lots of it , do you hear Holyfield complaining or Julio Ceasar Chavez or Tito Trinidad ?
What did Don King do to McClelland ? Not stump up his end ? Well I suggest you read War,baby' and Dark Trade' or get your facts right .


Then we have the faceless HBO making millions out of fighters at the very top of the sport whilst the promoters like Don King and Frank Warren build them up and have them stolen . What about De la hoya - Felix Sturm ?Nobody ever says anything about that.
The Middleweight tournement that put Hopkins on top who's brainchild ? Tito,Holmes and Joppy all controlled by Don King , no ? HBo wouldn't touch those fighters,it was King that made that happen .
Hopkins career was languishing,he wasn't with HBO yet now he has the greatest of success .

What about Ricky Hatton, Joe Calzaghe and Naz all built up by Sports Network !
Where were HBO when Naz was fighting Peter Buckley at the York Hall and where were they when Joe Calzaghe couldnt sell out Cardiff Castle and the Cardiff Ice Rink when he was boooed back to the dressing room ?

I am not a fan of Frank Warren or Don King we all complain about them not matching their fighters yet they take the risks put their end in show paitence when a fighter pulls out at short notice or puts a shit performence in and then fighters run off when the big bucks are shown .

I think it's time people grew up.

[Kev]

I aggree , with alot thats wrote above , it just seems Don King is easy to hate we also assume there's funny business everytime somebody gets a a bum decision in Vegas !
what did King do to Tyson that he didnt do for Holyfield ?
Im sick of hearing about poor hard done by Mike Tyson who was matched soft and lavished with $300 dollars ! Did Don King force him to rape that girl ? Don King showed errors of judgement but to suggest he wanted Tyson to fuck up is ludicrus. Don King promotes Evander Holyfield and is still making him money and lots of it , do you hear Holyfield complaining or Julio Ceasar Chavez or Tito Trinidad ?
What did Don King do to McClelland ? Not stump up his end ? Well I suggest you read War,baby' and Dark Trade' or get your facts right .


Then we have the faceless HBO making millions out of fighters at the very top of the sport whilst the promoters like Don King and Frank Warren build them up and have them stolen . What about De la hoya - Felix Sturm ?Nobody ever says anything about that.
The Middleweight tournement that put Hopkins on top who's brainchild ? Tito,Holmes and Joppy all controlled by Don King , no ? HBo wouldn't touch those fighters,it was King that made that happen .
Hopkins career was languishing,he wasn't with HBO yet now he has the greatest of success .

What about Ricky Hatton, Joe Calzaghe and Naz all built up by Sports Network !
Where were HBO when Naz was fighting Peter Buckley at the York Hall and where were they when Joe Calzaghe couldnt sell out Cardiff Castle and the Cardiff Ice Rink when he was boooed back to the dressing room ?

I am not a fan of Frank Warren or Don King we all complain about them not matching their fighters yet they take the risks put their end in show paitence when a fighter pulls out at short notice or puts a shit performence in and then fighters run off when the big bucks are shown .

I think it's time people grew up.

Big Dick as Jaz pointed he killed two people, one he shot in the back and the other he kicked to death for owing him money.

A crazy hairdo and a jolly eccentric personality shouldn't disguise the fact that he is evil to the fucking core and would kill his own gran for a buck.

I find him entertaining but he's up there with the likes of Hitler, Pol Pot and Saddam in terms of character traits.

[Formerly D@vid Leeder]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_King_(boxing_promoter)

I think a big one is that King stomped one of his workers to death because the guy owed him $600. Anybody who could beat someone to death just for owing money is a pretty amoral piece of shit.

He also stroked both Joe Frazier and George Foreman prior to their first bout and he actually STEPPED OVER Frazier's horizontal body on the canvas to get to Foreman. He bragged about how he arrived with the champion (Frazier) and left with the champion (Foreman), and there was nothing facetious about it. King was as scummy as it got back in the 70s, 80s, and 90s.

PPV percentages going to organized crime figures, he actually had to take the 5th Amendment when he was questioned under oath about his relationship to John Gotti...I would think a better question is "Why is he allowed to promote boxing cards"? The man is backed by and has ties with organized crime.

[AdamGB]

He stamped somebody to death, He shot somebody in the back.
He's ripped off and exploited fighters, ruined them.

What REALLY pisses me off about him to watch listen to is his BLATANTLY insincere flag waving etc... "viva la mekkyico' You're not mexican don... pronounce it 'mexico' like the rest of us.

He trys to work the sheeple with his psuedo jingoistic crap and it's just so weak.

[Howlin Mad Missy]

He stamped somebody to death, He shot somebody in the back.
He's ripped off and exploited fighters, ruined them.

What REALLY pisses me off about him to watch listen to is his BLATANTLY insincere flag waving etc... "viva la mekkyico' You're not mexican don... pronounce it 'mexico' like the rest of us.

He trys to work the sheeple with his psuedo jingoistic crap and it's just so weak.

funny thing is we're laughing at him and he's laughing all the way to the bank

Add Earnie Shavers to the vocal list of, 'Don King ripped me off' crowd.

[jamiebhoy]

I aggree , with alot thats wrote above , it just seems Don King is easy to hate we also assume there's funny business everytime somebody gets a a bum decision in Vegas !
what did King do to Tyson that he didnt do for Holyfield ?
Im sick of hearing about poor hard done by Mike Tyson who was matched soft and lavished with $300 dollars ! Did Don King force him to rape that girl ? Don King showed errors of judgement but to suggest he wanted Tyson to fuck up is ludicrus. Don King promotes Evander Holyfield and is still making him money and lots of it , do you hear Holyfield complaining or Julio Ceasar Chavez or Tito Trinidad ?
What did Don King do to McClelland ? Not stump up his end ? Well I suggest you read War,baby' and Dark Trade' or get your facts right .


Then we have the faceless HBO making millions out of fighters at the very top of the sport whilst the promoters like Don King and Frank Warren build them up and have them stolen . What about De la hoya - Felix Sturm ?Nobody ever says anything about that.
The Middleweight tournement that put Hopkins on top who's brainchild ? Tito,Holmes and Joppy all controlled by Don King , no ? HBo wouldn't touch those fighters,it was King that made that happen .
Hopkins career was languishing,he wasn't with HBO yet now he has the greatest of success .

What about Ricky Hatton, Joe Calzaghe and Naz all built up by Sports Network !
Where were HBO when Naz was fighting Peter Buckley at the York Hall and where were they when Joe Calzaghe couldnt sell out Cardiff Castle and the Cardiff Ice Rink when he was boooed back to the dressing room ?

I am not a fan of Frank Warren or Don King we all complain about them not matching their fighters yet they take the risks put their end in show paitence when a fighter pulls out at short notice or puts a shit performence in and then fighters run off when the big bucks are shown .

I think it's time people grew up.

Big Dick as Jaz pointed he killed two people, one he shot in the back and the other he kicked to death for owing him money.

A crazy hairdo and a jolly eccentric personality shouldn't disguise the fact that he is evil to the fucking core and would kill his own gran for a buck.

I find him entertaining but he's up there with the likes of Hitler, Pol Pot and Saddam in terms of character traits.

Seems like Big Dick has some anger issues, seems to dish out warning that we all need to get our fact right and grow up and listen to him open up about things he is going to tell us that we don't know. You obviously have the internet try a Google search on some sujects before you get your panties in a knot and don't refer to the same two books you've read.

Bilbo has it right the man is manipulative scum who used to run a numbers racket and killed one man for a few bucks.He ties fighters up with deals that would need a dozen lawyers to unravel and had his son do work as a manager so he could do the promo work and get a slice both ways.

[Nameless]

Less we forget his corruption affair with Bob Lee Singer from the IBF

Less we Forget how he did try to rob off Guthrie by promising him a title fight with Hill when he had no intentions to match him for the crown and was informing in advance the other promoters that Guthrie would fight their guy while Guthrie was training for Hill and never got told who he would really fight

Less we forget that he did deal with one of the worst African dictator (Mubutu) to roll on gold and prepare his match.

These are just to pile up to the list of King's wrongdoing

[fan johnny]

All I remember about King is he screwed Muhammad Ali and got away with it. So I've just ignored the rhetoric every since knowing he's always going to take advantage of the naive. I think this qualifies to make the guy hated!