What truly made Don King fall off?How would today's stars careers have went under him?

[kushking]

Just wondering what everyone thinks about why Don King lost his status as a top promoter? He used to be running all of boxing at one pt,& he used to put on some great fights.

What happened?

[markusmod]

Yeah, he lost the TV deals and with that, the fighters.

[Ropss]

He would rob them all

[kushking]

Yeah, he lost the TV deals and with that, the fighters.

It sounds like a hell of a story though,I just don't know it(or maybe nobody does?)

[kushking]

What happened to @Thuglife_nelo(say what you will but he knows a lot of random sh about boxing) or @WbaWbcIbf ?

They should know the answer to this, anyone who can chime in on exactly when it was that Don King went from top dog to zero?(like was there a certain fighter(s) leaving him who completely were the last straw,or why did hbo terminate his deal, anyone?

Don King was a crazy ol fool who killed multiple people I know that much

[paulf]

Lennox Lewis and Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko didn't sign with him - that's what happened.

Don King lived and died by the heavyweight division. When that dried up in America, so did Don King Promotions. Don didn't have the leverage to make HBO and Showtime overpay or buy garbage matchups because the landscape had changed.

Top Rank and Haymon/Golden Boy took the reigns from him and never looked back.

[low blows]

Lennox Lewis and Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko didn't sign with him - that's what happened.

Don King lived and died by the heavyweight division. When that dried up in America, so did Don King Promotions. Don didn't have the leverage to make HBO and Showtime overpay or buy garbage matchups because the landscape had changed.

Top Rank and Haymon/Golden Boy took the reigns from him and never looked back.

This and natural aging and no obvious heir to the throne. Top Rank is really run by Arum's step son, there is now way a 90+ year old has the stamina to put in 70 hour work weeks.

The axis of boxing shifted to Eastern European and Northern Asian fighters in the heavyweight division less a few fighters and King couldn't pull his street guy flim flam act on these guys.

PS, he did have Valuev but only as co-promoter and he refused to negotiate fairly for a unification fight with K2 promotions and after Valuev lost to Chageav that was the end of his chance at relevancy in the division.

[Joe Grizzley]

He would rob them all

Too much competition now. His gangland tacics wouldn't work today, not with social media.

[Carpe Diem]

He’s still arguably the greatest salesman in boxing history.

[Brutus1]

He had a good 20 -30 years as being THE promoter in boxing. To be fair everyone is going to have their heyday and then drop off at some point.