Comments Thread For: Cooney: Don King ****d The Game, Now Heavyweights Returning

[jup11223]

You can say what you want about...Of course he was no angel,but he made the big fights happen...

[Andre_parker1]

I gotta say..he makes a good point..don king took a huge pay cut of fighters who actually entered the ring..not yap around like he always did

[_Rexy_]

Jesus Christ guys, even Adolf Hitler made the Autobahn. A broken clock can be right twice a day. King is a monster

/end rant

[Eff Pandas]

Idk if I buy that. Interesting theory doe.

[_Rexy_]

Back in the days he wouldn't be a champ. 39 fights? Lennox has 44 and look at his resume... and his skills etc

Lennox had skills, but lets not act like the guy wasn't prone to some of the strangest KO upset losses that I can only attribute to brain farts on his end.

so Wilder could have very well KO'd Lewis had Lennox done something ****** like he did with Rahman or McCall

[joebloggs789]

Bad for boxing? Boxing was far more popular, far more entertaining and had way more big fights (with stacked undercards).

Don may have been bad for BOXERS, but he definitely wasn't bad for boxing fans.

This right here! He was horrible to boxers ripped them off, left them broke etc, but he knew how to promote a fight.
Still a prick though!

[Boksfan]

Why am I not surprised that you're hurling childish insults instead of addressing my points like an intelligent adult?




Know enough to know that Don ruled with an iron fist for decades and boxing was extremely popular during that time. Fans got stacked cards constantly. Boxers felt short changed, but fans got great shows.

You are pathetic for saying anything positive about that human resampling creature who's wasting everybody's air King.

[kafkod]

Whether Don King was responsible for killing HW boxing in the States or not .. the HW revival didn't happen in the States, and King leaving the scene played no part in it whatsovever.

[kafkod]

Bad for boxing? Boxing was far more popular, far more entertaining and had way more big fights (with stacked undercards).

Don may have been bad for BOXERS, but he definitely wasn't bad for boxing fans.

I have to agree with this. King may have been an arsehole who ripped his fighters off terribly - and he was a convicted 2 time murderer - but that guy knew how to make good fights, and how to sell them and the fighters involved to the man in the street, no doubt about it.

[tostao]

Don King created the game !