Why does everybody hate Don King ?

[Chris24-7]

Don is no beter or no worse then most big promoters when it comes to the way he treats/treated his fighters....Don just had bigger stars, and he had bigger ideas then most...The man made boxing the money machine it has become, there was not such thing as million dollar paydays with double digits before Don.....The man brought promotion to a whole new level and contrary to popular belief he is a hard worker....Most promoters today have a huge staff of people doing all the leg work...Don still at his age is hands on everything....

To understand exactly how good King is as a promoter for those who don't know the behind the scenes workings of Ali/Foreman do some reasearch.....No one but Don could have pulled that off

As for his past aside from boxing yeah he was shady, he was an enforcer but I can name a 100 guys who have done worse


Love King or Hate King you have to respect what the man does/has done....Don went beyond the biggest player in the game he invented the game

Yea I read about Ali-Foreman on his wikipedia page (I dont know much before his most recent years)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_King_(boxing_promoter)
Looks like he's had his ups and down in life

[mattboxingfan]

because he steals money off fighters

[mattboxingfan]

he smells

[mattboxingfan]

need 10 posts lol

[mattboxingfan]

I like big buts

[mattboxingfan]

And i can not lie you

[mattboxingfan]

You other brothers cant deniy

[Chris24-7]

need 10 posts lol

You could have atleast had a go at Don in those posts

[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.

[Chino]

...still, I am yet to see another promoter come up with the fight cards Don King came up with.

The monsters . Sometimes I use to go to bed before the main event

I'll give you an example, remember the event called "Revenge: The Rematches"? Any other promoter nowadays would have each of those fights in the fight card as separate events really.

[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!