Is Don King's screwing up heavyweight Boxing?

[BOLLOCKS1984]

Don King has been/is screwing part of boxing. Another large part has been and is screwed by Arum. The rest has been/is screwed by the rest of their ilk. It's a gang ****!!! And we fans get all the gooo!

That pretty much sums it up.

Boxing has become a minority sport, because of all the **** that goes on. Sports like Tennis and Golf get more coverage than Boxing. Even when the sports news is reported, Boxing will only get a little segment, if at all.

Corruption, PPV, multiple titles, greedy boxers etc have ripped the spine out of boxing.

[Boxerdog]

greedy boxers ........ have ripped the spine out of boxing.

PUHLEASE!!!!!!!
Looking at the average salaries in the four major sports makes me CRAZY!! A boxer steps in to do his job knowing full well that his health and life are on the line like in NO other competition!
And only the top 5% or LESS can command a payday that a utility in-fielder on a celler dwelling MLB team wouldn't scoff at!

[Dark Destroyer]

and now big don is threatening to start his own boxing network and cut all ties with hbo, presumably larry merchant not letting him hog the mic the other night was the last straw.

lol. I hope your joking because i found that very amusing. Don King speaks enough at press conferences, Larry was just letting him have a rest for once.

[ejk22]

I have said it once and I will say it again, don king needs to be killed. Someone has to assassinate this mother****er. That is the only way boxing can be saved, this mother****er cannot be involved anymore. I don't know how the FBI has not come up with some type of evidence against king to throw him in jail for a long time. If the FBI won't do it someone else should kill him.

[Hurlex]

Originally Posted by grayfist
Don King has been/is screwing part of boxing. Another large part has been and is screwed by Arum. The rest has been/is screwed by the rest of their ilk. It's a gang ****!!! And we fans get all the gooo!

goo..lol..yeah..and right in the eye..

anyway..yeah don sucks for boxing...hes what is keeping a VK/byrd rematch from happeneing

[deuce_drop]

first the heavyweight divison need some real fighters, right now it's just full of bums,euro-trash, blown up middle and cruiser weights....i can't stand heavyweights!!

[MetalVomit]

im not one for conspiracies(?) at all, but i say, no don king=no brewster suddenly dominating wlad. I know, i know. ive seen many boxers run out of steam but never like that, and ive seen wlad bring a lot more heat to mercer than he was to brewster and mercer was moving more and trying to fight back. don king is filth.

[psychopath]

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Thanks Winter, maybe because it's unique and cool. A sort of entertaining. Peace!

[neils7147933]

IMO - Heavyweight boxing needs to unify. Having all these champions raises so many questions about who's best, it's divided the fans into to many groups.

With DK controlling 3 of the major belts, it can be argued that he is responsible. If he is unwilling to match his fighters against Vitali Klitschko, he should at least match them against each other and put a multi-belt champion against Klitschko.

For the sake of the division, DK can answer at least a few of those questions and bring interest back to the division. From what I can see, It's only his corrupt greed preventing it.

What do you think?

Promoters don't care what you think. There's not as much money made when there's just one champ. It's not just the heavyweight division. All but the middleweight division have numerous champions, and Bernard is the WBA Super champ and Maselino Masoe still carries a WBA belt around.

Obviously, it would be better for the sport if they were unified. But who cares about the sport when there's money to be made?

[neils7147933]

im not one for conspiracies(?) at all, but i say, no don king=no brewster suddenly dominating wlad. I know, i know. ive seen many boxers run out of steam but never like that, and ive seen wlad bring a lot more heat to mercer than he was to brewster and mercer was moving more and trying to fight back. don king is filth.

Don King never promoted Ross Purritty.