Comments Thread For: Don King Files Lawsuit To Prevent Mosley-Mayorga II

[ИATAS]

Absolutely, that's the meaning of having a contractual agreement. Everybody knows that Mayorga has been a King fighter for many years. It was irresponsible for anyone to sign Mayorga to a fight without knowing his status with Don King.

As you said, if Don King is compensated the fight goes on.

Not really, because Mayorga and others claim he isn't under contract anymore. This has been a long legal battle. And it's pretty sick King is still going after him, he's an old and washed up fighter; he's not making much money at all in these circus shows or small time cards here and there. King will just suck out every last drop of blood.

[El-blanco]

Not only that MMA card, he did it last year regarding a boxing match:

Ricardo Mayorga pulled from card
2/6/2014
http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/id...s-legal-action

However, King, who has promoted Mayorga for most of his career and claims that he still has a valid promotional agreement with him, sent a legal letter to Burchfield this week, demanding that he pull the 40-year-old Mayorga from the card.

The sad thing here is it's clear Mayorga is just trying to make a little bit of money. he's a 40-something year old washed up fighter. What could Don King possibly earn off this guy? I mean at this point he's screwing him just so that Mayorga can't make a living. What is Mayorga to an 85 year old Don King anyway at this point of his career? It's pretty sickening.

It is, unfortunately most rich people are like this. If there's five dollars for the taking they want it. I see it everyday in business it's pretty pathetic and petty.

[tgoodm10]

Didn't he do this to an MMA event a few years ago?

He had to get to court with $1,000,000.00 in cash to file the emergency injunction too. He did just that too. I was looking forward to that MMA match too. It had been built up very well.

He ended up getting Mayorga on a Miami card in December of 2010.

So it looks like Don's at it again.

Partially Mayorga's fault for never severing ties with him.

[SchoolTheseCats]

Any chance Haymon is involved in this somehow, behind the scenes? We already know he was trying to block Mosley/Mayorga II because he has Santa Cruz and Mares fighting on that night. Wouldn't surprise me if he encouraged King in this. Or maybe my extreme hatred of Haymon is making me jump to this conclusion .

Extreme hatred for someone you never met before or had personal dealings with lol you guys go above and beyond

[ramplamp]

Extreme hatred for someone you never met before or had personal dealings with lol you guys go above and beyond

Exaggeration, of course, but I do think he is terrible for boxing (as a sport, not for the fighters who are getting overpaid to fight male strippers) and the PBC is mostly garbage.

[Eff Pandas]

Any chance Haymon is involved in this somehow, behind the scenes? We already know he was trying to block Mosley/Mayorga II because he has Santa Cruz and Mares fighting on that night. Wouldn't surprise me if he encouraged King in this. Or maybe my extreme hatred of Haymon is making me jump to this conclusion .

Santa Cruz vs Mares on ESPN for the price of your normal cable bill vs Mosley vs Mayorga for an extra $50 or w/e on your cable bill doesn't seem like much of a decision to make.

I hadn't realized these fights were on the same night.

[Eff Pandas]

The Ali act needs to be appended to cover consensual slave contracts that all but ruin boxer's careers.

Agree.

I'd love to see contracts, 3 yr max, have to run there course before a new contract can be discussed. One of the biggest tricks in the books these days (perfected by Arum) is the don't setup the last fight on the contract until the fighter signs an extension or the fighter sits strategy for months & maybe a year & change.

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this POS is still alive? die already

[wlliam]

Didn't he do this to an MMA event a few years ago?

Yeah just like it says in the article

[gauze]

who are you guys kidding, you're all gonna be like "RIP don king" when he dies.