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He’s had a Championship tenure longer than the combined title reign’s of Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali, Larry Holmes, and Mike Tyson. On top of that he’s never been stopped and he is a definite Heavyweight. Oh, he’s been down a few times, but never out. He is the true King of all the Heavyweight’s, he is Don King.
It will be 31 years ago this coming October since King convinced an African dictator to put up 10 million dollars of his country’s money for a Heavyweight Championship fight between Champion George Foreman and Challenger Muhammad Ali. More commonly known as the “Rumble In The Jungle”
That is how long Don King has been the main man in Boxing’s glamor division. Think about that, a 31 year reign as the man. Not even the New York Yankees have had a 31 year run that has been virtually uninterrupted like King has. He promoted a few of Ali’s title bouts, just about all of Holmes' bouts and title defenses, a majority of Tyson’s title defenses, and even some of Holyfield’s. In fact King currently has Holyfield under contract and there seems to be some rumbling that he’s working on signing Tyson again? Despite being sued by him for 100 million dollars. The only Champion King never had a piece of was Lennox Lewis. It was only during the Lewis title reign that King was somewhat frozen out of control of the Heavyweight division, again somewhat but not totally. Now with Lewis retired, there can be no doubt that Don King is going to dictate what fights the fans will see and who fights who in the near future. [details]
It will be 31 years ago this coming October since King convinced an African dictator to put up 10 million dollars of his country’s money for a Heavyweight Championship fight between Champion George Foreman and Challenger Muhammad Ali. More commonly known as the “Rumble In The Jungle”
That is how long Don King has been the main man in Boxing’s glamor division. Think about that, a 31 year reign as the man. Not even the New York Yankees have had a 31 year run that has been virtually uninterrupted like King has. He promoted a few of Ali’s title bouts, just about all of Holmes' bouts and title defenses, a majority of Tyson’s title defenses, and even some of Holyfield’s. In fact King currently has Holyfield under contract and there seems to be some rumbling that he’s working on signing Tyson again? Despite being sued by him for 100 million dollars. The only Champion King never had a piece of was Lennox Lewis. It was only during the Lewis title reign that King was somewhat frozen out of control of the Heavyweight division, again somewhat but not totally. Now with Lewis retired, there can be no doubt that Don King is going to dictate what fights the fans will see and who fights who in the near future. [details]