Comments Thread For: Judge Sides With Ryabinskiy in Lawsuit Against Don King

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Bad news for promoter Don King, as U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin in Manhattan found him liable for breach of contract with relation to the canceled fight on April 25th rematch in Moscwo between World Boxing Association cruiserweight champion Denis Lebedev and mandatory challenger Guillermo Jones. The fight was canceled, about an hour before the fighters were scheduled to step in the ring, because Jones tested positive for diuretic furosemide.
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[Nightfall]

pay up. this comes with the territory

[chocolate]

I have no sympathy for King or Jones in this case as they did not man up with their mistake and claimed that the Russian's tampered with the tests in the first fight the second fight test was done in a neutral lab in Switzerland with the same results of Furosemide which while looks like a harmless substance to lose water weight is a steroid masking agent.

[observer]

I have no sympathy for King or Jones in this case as they did not man up with their mistake and claimed that the Russian's tampered with the tests in the first fight the second fight test was done in a neutral lab in Switzerland with the same results of Furosemide which while looks like a harmless substance to lose water weight is a steroid masking agent.

I didn't think Ryabinsky had much of a chance. How do you sue a promoter for the fact that his fighter took banned substance? If a promoter is liable, then this is a quick fix for the juicing problem - take the test, cancel the fight and sue the promoter for the purse money. If it's that easy, why isn't everybody doing this?

[Dafoo]

Kind of surprised by this decision. Sounds like Don King may have used the same tax attorney he hired for Tyson's **** case back in the day. LOL

[OnePunch]

I didn't think Ryabinsky had much of a chance. How do you sue a promoter for the fact that his fighter took banned substance? If a promoter is liable, then this is a quick fix for the juicing problem - take the test, cancel the fight and sue the promoter for the purse money. If it's that easy, why isn't everybody doing this?

in a situation like this, where King's fighter was on a show promoted by someone else, King would have executed whats called a "provision of services" agreement with that promoter. In a nutshell that is an agreement where King agrees to "provide the services" of Jones, or whoever else. Its used so that the fighter doesnt really know how much money King is getting.

For example, King may have signed a Provision of Services Agreement with the Moscow promoter for lets say $1 million, and then King pockets $300k and does a bout contract with Jones for $700k. (I just made up these numbers but you get the idea)

So regardless of who was at fault, King ultimately did not provide the services of Jones as he agreed to, so yes he was in breach.......