Scary Don King

[PBDS]

Brewster-Golota update!
By Karl Freitag
"I'm im Memphis right now putting it together for Golota and Brewster and hopefully Mayorga or somebody," promoter Don King told *********.com yesterday. King, who has been investigating numerous venues for the March 12 fight, ruled out St. Louis (where 15,000+ seats for Spinks-Judah have already been sold) because the venue is not available. King also commented on his plans for a heavyweight tournament. "If we can get Klitschko when Rahman knocks out Vitali, then the tournament is in full bloom because we've got all four titles and all of the contenders and the mandatories. We put them into the group and we can really put on a tournament that will give us one undisputed heavyweight champion of the world."


.......This is the kind of **** that scares me when it comes to Don King. He is gonna pull out all the stops to take total control of the heavyweight division. This is a scary fight for Vitali and it has nothing to do with what the Rock brings to the table. I am really concerned with King constantly talking about geting Vit "out of the way" so he can control the heavyweight division. A mysterious accident for Vitali that either severely injured him or even killed him would not surprise me. Don King is one scary ass dude.

[jabsRstiff]

You Klit fans need medication for your paranoia.

[jack_the_rippuh]

The guy controls the heavyweight division when it is at it's worse.
I still think that an undisputed champ what help as much as people think it will. We need a champ who can brings people into boxing as far as fans go..

[dansweeney]

come on man, i dont think he is gonna kill the guy, lennox lewis wasnt with king and he came out allright

[SalvaDominicano]

A mysterious accident for Vitali that either severely injured him or even killed him would not surprise me. Don King is one scary ass dude.

never thought about it like that.. sucks for vitali.

[PBDS]

never thought about it like that.. sucks for vitali.

....King is probably in touch with the guys who poisoned Yushenko right now.

[ejk22]

Brewster-Golota update!
By Karl Freitag
"I'm im Memphis right now putting it together for Golota and Brewster and hopefully Mayorga or somebody," promoter Don King told *********.com yesterday. King, who has been investigating numerous venues for the March 12 fight, ruled out St. Louis (where 15,000+ seats for Spinks-Judah have already been sold) because the venue is not available. King also commented on his plans for a heavyweight tournament. "If we can get Klitschko when Rahman knocks out Vitali, then the tournament is in full bloom because we've got all four titles and all of the contenders and the mandatories. We put them into the group and we can really put on a tournament that will give us one undisputed heavyweight champion of the world."

Not for nothing but someone is getting poisoned or ****ed by the referee/judges that night and it won't be Rahman.
.......This is the kind of **** that scares me when it comes to Don King. He is gonna pull out all the stops to take total control of the heavyweight division. This is a scary fight for Vitali and it has nothing to do with what the Rock brings to the table. I am really concerned with King constantly talking about geting Vit "out of the way" so he can control the heavyweight division. A mysterious accident for Vitali that either severely injured him or even killed him would not surprise me. Don King is one scary ass dude.

Not for nothing but someone is either getting poisoned or ****ed by the referee/judges that night and it won't be Rahman.

[SonnyG8R]

NEW YORK (AP) -- For once, Don King kept quiet.

Instead of pontificating, the boxing promoter stood stiffly in the background as his lawyer discussed a defamation suit King filed Wednesday against ESPN. The attorney said King is entitled to damages of more than $2.5 billion.

The lawsuit says a SportsCentury segment aired last May accused King of being "a snake oil salesman, a shameless huckster and worse," claimed the flamboyant promoter underpaid Muhammad Ali by $1.2 million and claimed King -- convicted in a 1967 beating death and acquitted in a 1954 killing -- "killed not once, but twice."

Most of the material in the program had been printed or broadcast earlier about King, who has spent much of his career in court, but the wild-haired promoter said he had just had enough.

"I just felt that this was the straw that broke the camel's back and I can't take it anymore, and I'm going to fight back," King said at a news conference. "I seek justice."

King, wearing a garish American flag tie and two flag lapel pins, then quietly stepped back and let lawyer Willie Gary answer questions.

Gary called the SportsCentury segment "a story designed to orchestrate and create an impression that is not there," and said the network had refused to retract parts of the program that offended King.

The suit, filed in state court in Broward County, Fla., names ESPN and its parent company, Walt Disney Co., among the defendants. Also named are Disney-owned ABC Cable Networks and Advocate Communications, a Florida-based cable and satellite system.

"We have not seen a copy of the lawsuit, so we are not in a position to comment on it," said Mike Soltys, ESPN's vice president of communications. "However, SportsCentury is a Peabody- and Emmy-award winning series of more than 250 biographies that is widely respected for its journalistic quality and integrity."

The suit also says SportsCentury accused King of threatening to break the legs of heavyweight Larry Holmes and of cheating boxer Meldrick Taylor out of $1 million from a fight and then threatening to have Taylor killed.

"It was slanted to show Don in the worst way. It was one-sided from day one," Gary said. "Don is a strong man, but he has been hurt by this."

King has represented fighters from Ali to Mike Tyson, and has been sued by several of them -- including a $100 million lawsuit filed against him by Tyson. King paid $7.5 million to former middleweight champion Terry Norris in late 2003 to settle a suit. King sued former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis for libel.

King also has beaten federal charges, including tax evasion and fraud. He served nearly four years in prison for the 1967 beating death of a man who owed him money. In 1954, he killed a man who was robbing a numbers house he operated in Cleveland, but it was ruled self-defense.

[SonnyG8R]

The reason King wears his hair so high is to hide his horns. I wish somebody would stick a blade up is ass.

[guru]

lewis had some memorable moments against king's fighters:

- KO'd by McCall
- beats McCall after a mental breakdown
- questionable draw against holy
- KO's rahman in rematch

lewis also wisely decided not to fight some king fighters unless he absolutely had to... he let both his belts go rather than face ruiz or byrd... problem for VK is he's not in a position to do that, he has to face king's guys to unify the belts and become recognized as the undisputed champ...