Did Don King really rob his fighters? how good of a promoter can he be .....

[Silencers]

Don King has screwed over a lot of fighters in his time, he used to make fighters hire his son as their managers so that he could get a bigger cut of the purse. Plus he used to only pay fighters a fraction of what they were worth or what he promised them they would be paid. Anyways, he doesn't have the power he used to have so I don't think he can do much for young prospects. Most of his fighters fight once a year on small club shows nowadays.

[SixFootGiant]

He basically destroyed Tim Witherspoon's career with his bulls**t

[Bermuda]

didn't the klitschko brothers almost sign with don king?

[oc9979]

He didn't pay some money(I think it was 500k) to Tito Trinidad from the Jones fight and Tito decided to forgive the debt.

[tredh]

Its not a smart move to sign with King because he is basically blackballed from boxing by promoters and networks.

But in his heyday nobody could promote better than King!!

[New England]

don king made a ton of different fighters a ton of money.

along the way he established a reputation for manipulating purses and careers in a manner that was detrimental to some of his fighters

as evidenced previously in the thread, king has killed at least two men. one owed him money and he was stomped to death. the other was shot in the back while fleeing from a robbery of king's ******** operation.

he served four years for the stomping death. the man he killed was an employee and he owed king a few hundred dollars. he was later pardoned by a state official.

the shooting death was ruled justifiable, and i dont think king served a day in jail for it.


i've met don king and i've spent some time around him. i did not talk to him, but he talked at me. to say that he's a remarkable human being is a gross understatement.

i've only been around a few people like that in my life.

[Boxing Bob]

Don King was and is a true scumbag. He screwed a ton of fighters many different ways. Tim Witherspoon especially. Witherspoon went to England as the WBA champion to defend vs Frank Bruno. Bruno took home close to 3 million as the challenger and after King and his minions took out their cut, Spoon took home 90k!


With all that said, I sure do miss the King PPVs that routinely had 4-7 good title fights on them!

[boxing2106]

I read he's trying to do shows and events in korea now. Wasn't Alexander with him or is he still with Don?

[RisAri0]

deep down I feel he was the reason Tito retired early AND the rematch with Oscar wasn't made... just my 2 cents

[#1Assassin]

king is a crook. he is a good promoter if he wants to be, if he belives you can make him lots of money for a long period of time. if he doesnt he will just use you. only promoter whos worse than king is arum, hes no crook hes a villain.