Comments Thread For: Makabu Controversially Beats Mchunu; King Still Hopes To Get Him Canelo

[SweetPbfAli]

Reading this piece, I was reminded of one of King's cards held at the Omni in Atlanta way back in '86. And trust me, 37 years later,
almost to the day, hasn't changed King promotions one bit. The Tubbs/Witherspoon fight program had probably the most typos and
blowhard shtick in it you could ever imagine. I mean it was an embarrassment. 'King's Dream' it was called... with picture of Martin Luther
King on one side, and of course Don King on the other. There was a big stink in the leadup, as King wanted only HWs on the card... and
there was Evander Holyfield, at that point a top contender at CW, fighting out of Atlanta, but not allowed on the card. He did show up at the
open workouts, and would just a few months later win the CW title at that same venue, vs Qawi. Also at the open workouts was Ali, who sparred
a few rounds with Witherspoon, afterwards proclaiming as he sometimes did 'I shall return, I shall return... return to my senses!'. The card was
good enough, with the James Blood Green fight being the most exciting, and the Buster Douglas victory over Greg Page nearly as good. In contrast,
the 15 rounds of Witherspoon/Tubbs was mostly boring. Plenty of celebrities were there... Pinklon Thomas, Ray Parker Jr, Mickey Duff and others,
and it was a good crowd. I still have a few pics I took that night. But still that fight program was as amateur looking as could be. LOL

Cool story. Ali was still sparring in '86? Sheesh!

[PunchyPotorff]

Originally posted by PunchyPotorff View Post
Reading this piece, I was reminded of one of King's cards held at the Omni in Atlanta way back in '86. And trust me, 37 years later,
almost to the day, hasn't changed King promotions one bit. The Tubbs/Witherspoon fight program had probably the most typos and
blowhard shtick in it you could ever imagine. I mean it was an embarrassment. 'King's Dream' it was called... with picture of Martin Luther
King on one side, and of course Don King on the other. There was a big stink in the leadup, as King wanted only HWs on the card... and
there was Evander Holyfield, at that point a top contender at CW, fighting out of Atlanta, but not allowed on the card. He did show up at the
open workouts, and would just a few months later win the CW title at that same venue, vs Qawi. Also at the open workouts was Ali, who sparred
a few rounds with Witherspoon, afterwards proclaiming as he sometimes did 'I shall return, I shall return... return to my senses!'. The card was
good enough, with the James Blood Green fight being the most exciting, and the Buster Douglas victory over Greg Page nearly as good. In contrast,
the 15 rounds of Witherspoon/Tubbs was mostly boring. Plenty of celebrities were there... Pinklon Thomas, Ray Parker Jr, Mickey Duff and others,
and it was a good crowd. I still have a few pics I took that night. But still that fight program was as amateur looking as could be. LOL

Cool story. Ali was still sparring in '86? Sheesh!

Yep. He looked in good shape, and even signed autographs. There was a long line for 'em, buddy of mine got one.