Grantland- Don King Article

[The Gambler1981]

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9123674/don-king-faces-end-career

Most of the stuff I already knew, but it is enlightening none the less. It is interesting I was thinking a few days ago about Don King and if boxing missed his presence.

It is weird when I think about King because I know all the evil he did but whenever I see him it still makes me smile. I do know that they don't make'em like Don King anymore which in a way is good but in another way is also not so good.

[JoeKickAss]

F*** Don King

In the locker room before the fight at Barclays, a subdued Don King sat next to Thomas Hauser, a former lawyer and longtime boxing writer. In 1992, Hauser and Joseph Maffia, the former chief financial officer of Don King Productions, put together a series of affidavits that ultimately led to King's indictment on nine counts of wire fraud. Early on in the investigation, a lawyer from a Senate subcommittee investigating corruption in boxing came to interview Maffia and asked him if Don King was tied to organized crime. Hauser, who was in the room as Maffia's legal adviser, told the lawyer, "You don't understand. Don King is organized crime."

But all that seemed in the past. King sat in a chair near the locker room door, an iPod Touch cradled in his massive hand. He took Hauser through four decades of photographs and gave long, rambling captions for each one. He told stories about Christie Brinkley, Henry Kissinger, Ali, Martin Scorsese, Michael Jackson, and Jacques Chirac. As the two old men, awash in nostalgia, stared down at those tiny, digital images, Cloud went through his pre-fight preparation. Once Cloud's hands were taped up and gloved, he sat down in a corner and tried to have a quiet moment to himself. King was talking to Hauser about Shimon Peres and Israel and Cloud yelled out, "Don, you giving interviews now?" King grinned and waved him off. King then talked about his plans to take a victorious Cloud to fight in North Korea. "It'll be my show this time," King said while waving the flags of North and South Korea. "A real event for the people!"

[The Gambler1981]

F*** Don King

I can appreciate that sentiment toward Don King, hell he killed a man by stomping him to death over $600~

Not to mention all the money he stole from fighters and Don King was certainly always about Don King, which shows in what quoted.


Considering what he has done in the past how he is looked at now is rather odd.