Old Don King fight cards

[Steak]

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.

[DiegoFuego]

I recently noticed this as well. We don't get nearly the quality of cards that were put on in the 80s and 90s. I've seen tons where the undercard had James Toney on it for crying out loud, and then 2 or 3 fights after that. Unbelievable. You're lucky today if you go to a fight and get five name fighters on the entire card.

[jri9d0]

Dude, this thread is making me go down memory lane. I think Don King then had the best fighters and obviously put on the best shows. I think Don King’s productions then is what Top Rank is now as in regards to putting o quality fights with quality fighters. I remember when Tito was on JCC undercards sporting his high top fade and pencil thin mustache. There were some classic fight cards then no doubt.

Peace.

[Steak]

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.

[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.

[Thread Stealer]

It was also much easier to steal cable back then.

[El Angel]

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

[Red Ace]

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

[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.

[Lokotron]

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