Old Don King fight cards

I was just going through some old fights, and it reminded me how awesome some of the undercards were. seriously, look at some of these. Julio Cesar Chavez W Frankie Randall TD 8 12 Azumah Nelson L Jesse James Leija UD 12 12 Gerald McClellan W Julian Jackson KO 1 12 Ricardo Lopez W Kermin Guardia UD 12 12 Simon Brown L Terry Norris UD 12 12 Giovanni Parisi W Richie Hess KO 2 10 Meldrick Taylor W Chad Broussard Julio Cesar Chavez W Tony Lopez TKO 10 12 Felix Trinidad W Oba Carr TKO 8 12 Ricardo Lopez W Yamil Caraballo TKO 1 12 Jorge Fernando Castro W John David Jackson TKO 9 12 Frankie Randall W Rodney Moore Meldrick Taylor L Julio Cesar Chavez TKO 8 12 Frankie Randall W Juan Martin Coggi UD 12 12 Felix Trinidad W Luis Ramon Campas TKO 4 12 Ricardo Lopez W Surachai Saengmorakot TKO 1 12 Vincent Pettway W Gianfranco Rosi KO 4 12 Gabriel Ruelas W Jesse James Leija Julio Cesar Chavez W John Duplessis TKO 4 12 Mike Tyson W Donovan Ruddock TKO 7 12 Simon Brown W Maurice Blocker TKO 10 12 Pat Lawlor W Roberto Duran TKO 6 10 Greg Page W Mark Young TKO 3 10 Bernard Hopkins W Steve Langley these are just a few of them, and I probably didnt even put some of the best ones. If youre familiar with the divisions of 90s, these are some damn solid undercards. Trinidad, Ricardo Lopez, JCC and a FOTY candidate on one card? geez.

Comments (20)

New_England

well, when you rob everybody blind, i guess you can afford to stack your undercards :lol1:

10y ago

just_the_facts

I remember these as kid as all my dads friends came over to watch the fight on out 50" Big screen mitsubishi tv King is probably a horrible person from all the stories I've heard but he was great for a boxing fan man did you get your moneys worth one if his cards would be divided into 4-5 ppv events by todays standards Probably? That aside, those PPV with 3-6 quality fights on them were the mutts nuts

10y ago

TBear

At the time King was determined to put on super cards with the absence of Mike Tyson. I wasn't the biggest King fan but he really did just that.

10y ago

TOBYLEE1

Those ppv cards were worth the money. You really wanted to see every fight even the ones that were not televised

10y ago

IMDAZED

lol if you only knew what the future would hold for you as a boxing fan! :lol1: :lol1:

10y ago

kilojay505

And to think...this was one of his worst cards. I remember when this was announced I was like, "damn, Don King fell off." lol if you only knew what the future would hold for you as a boxing fan!

10y ago

IMDAZED

Yeah Don King did come up with some good stuff back in the day. He ran DKP like his own UFC. He had his brand and it was actually pretty good. Untill this day his KingVision cards are hard to come by. Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States Saturday 13 December 2003 Cory Spinks W Ricardo Mayorga MD 12 12 (bull****) Bernard Hopkins W William Joppy UD 12 12 John Ruiz W Hasim Rahman UD 12 12 Zab Judah W Jaime Rangel KO 1 12 Wayne Braithwaite W Luis Andres Pineda TKO 1 12 Luis Alberto Perez W Felix Machado UD 12 12 Travis Simms W Alejandro Garcia KO 5 12 And to think...this was one of his worst cards. I remember when this was announced I was like, "damn, Don King fell off."

10y ago

kilojay505

Yeah Don King did come up with some good stuff back in the day. He ran DKP like his own UFC. He had his brand and it was actually pretty good. Untill this day his KingVision cards are hard to come by. Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States Saturday 13 December 2003 Cory Spinks W Ricardo Mayorga MD 12 12 (bull****) Bernard Hopkins W William Joppy UD 12 12 John Ruiz W Hasim Rahman UD 12 12 Zab Judah W Jaime Rangel KO 1 12 Wayne Braithwaite W Luis Andres Pineda TKO 1 12 Luis Alberto Perez W Felix Machado UD 12 12 Travis Simms W Alejandro Garcia KO 5 12 I remember these as kid as all my dads friends came over to watch the fight on out 50" Big screen mitsubishi tv King is probably a horrible person from all the stories I've heard but he was great for a boxing fan man did you get your moneys worth one if his cards would be divided into 4-5 ppv events by todays standards

10y ago

TBear

I ordered and recorded every one of them. Great times!!

11y ago

EThug

And look at the absolute **** we get now on undercards...

11y ago

ugly2000

damn im glad I was already a boxing fan during that run of great DKP cards. Remebering brings a tear to my eye.

16y ago

Joe2608

Those cards are definatley worth your money.

16y ago

sonnyboyx2

Don King was the greatest promotor of all times he put the very best shows on for the fans, i could never understand boxing fans calling Don King... he was the only promotor who fans got value-4-money from..some King shows had 5 world title fights for the PPV price of £10 which was unbelievable value... Today we get charged twice that price for a show that we only know the 2 main event fighters

16y ago

Silencers

King was great at stacking cards back then, he still puts on some good cards but nowhere near as good as they were, he doesn't have the stable of fighters anymore.

16y ago

Lokotron

Damn! those cards were good and worth paying 50 dollars to watch.

16y ago

MANGLER

DK fell off. He's a forgotten man now. His fighters are always on the shelf too long, waitin for him to set sumthin up for him. He was the boss BITD tho. He did stack some cards.

16y ago

Red_Ace

16y ago

El_Angel

Hopefully Mayweather-Marquez and Cotto-Pacquiao's undercards are a step back in this direction.

16y ago

Thread_Stealer

It was also much easier to steal cable back then.

16y ago

jri9d0

the problem is that boxing is really spread out sometimes. Its not uncommon to see lots of good fights on one day, but only one per telecast. usually the big fight nights are divided up between showtime and HBO...and a lot of the time there are even meaningful fights in Europe on the same day. if you combined all of them together youd have a fantastic undercard, but nope...they all just refuse to collaborate. oh well. Don King had a ton of good fighters signed up with him at the time, which is why he could pull off those kind of undercards. I think also promoters are to hung on not putting their start prospects on too many undercards because they feel they can rush them to become headliners and therefore give these “prospects” (who are not yet elite fighters) their own air time for exposure. I think this has a lot to do with promoters desperately finding the next “big” star because of how general census views how boxing matches up to MMA regarding ratings. It’s a double edge sword because their perception of the next “big” star often comes as the next big flop. Peace.

16y ago