Well, even though I disagree with you, I have not prefaced my disagreement with you by saying something like, "you have no idea."
The truth is that I do not have to rely only on the MSM. I've lived for many years in Las Vegas and worked in the media and obtained press passes and attended many fights. I've follow the sport for many years.
I've met several well-known fighters who would disagree with you and gladly spit on Don King (George Foreman being one of them). I've attended press events where I was close enough to smell Don King... literally.
Again, Don King has done more for the sport of boxing than anyone - That is the bottom line!
I would say that Don King has done more TO the sport of boxing than anyone. Yes, some fighters have made more money than ever while working with him. These same fighters have found themselves entangled in convoluted contracts that actually kept them from fighting during their prime, while King played them like poker chips in his rigged, alphabet soup card game. Many of these same fighters have been robbed, used and abandoned by King.
I know that King, recently, supported Bush and staged a few photo-ops with the president. But, even while this says nothing terrible about Bush, it does NOT make Don King any better than the low-life con man he is and always has been.
Say what you want, disagree. But, please, don't suppose I "know nothing about boxing" or that I only get my information from the MSM.
Where is it that you get YOUR info?
The fighter's you find that are mad at King for the most part are grown men who are mad for having to pay for things they bought!! -
I find it hilarious that so many of these fighters ring up huge tabs during their training sessions....then get mad when what they spent is taken out of their PURSE money....Well, duh??....Mr. King covers all your expenses leading up to their fights....so they don't have to worry about that smaller BS.....but then they get mad when it comes out of their purse money!! (this was both Tyson's and Larry Holmes biggest complaints against King)
The average $$ going to even club fighters has increased dramatically since Don King has been involved (and especially so for those club fighters fighting on a Don King card....he pays the lesser known boxers very well and much above what ANY of the other so called "good" promoters ever shell out!!)
The amount of money made by the keynote fighters such as Tyson, Holmes, Foreman, etc, etc, etc.....these guys wouldn't have made HALF what they made if it wasn't for Don King - and that is a fact!
And lastly for you to suggest Don King is nothing more than a low-life con man.....shows exactly what I said....you know nothing about the world of boxing. That's the bottom line.