Don King promoted his first boxing show 50 years ago this year, became the most notorious man in boxing – even above his former fighter Mike Tyson – and unbelievably made news headlines again in re…
Don King went from prison to boxing’s biggest promoter involved with Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, fell out with Mike Tyson and even tried to make ‘Rumble in the Jungle 2’ with CaneloDon King promoted his first boxing show 50 years ago this year, became the most notorious man in boxing – even above his former fighter Mike Tyson – and unbelievably made news headlines again in recent months.
In 1954, he had shot and killed a man trying to rob one of his gambling houses, but this was ruled a justifiable homicide. The Garrett case ended in jail time, although – as King later said – rather than doing time, he made time work for him. However, the fight where he shot to global fame came in 1974 when King put together the most iconic fight of the 20th century: Foreman vs Ali. King beat his rival promoters to the punch by promising each man a then unheard of minimum of $5million each. What King had was two signatures on a piece of paper. What he did not have was $10million.
– a result King, ever the brazen hustler, tried to get overturned by virtue of a supposed long count earlier in the contest – did not slow things down. Tyson’s box-office appeal was undented.– billed simply as ‘He’s Back’ – did a then record 1.6 million US pay-per-view buys. King matched that record for Tyson’s showdown with Evander Holyfield a year later, then surpass it for the rematch which sold close to two million buys. But behind the scenes, the Tyson-King dynamic was rotten.
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