Don King Net Worth

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• I love this country called America, black and white alike I think its the greatest nation in the world.

Interesting Facts about Don King

1. Promoter of boxers Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Mike Tyson, among others. World-renowned promoter of boxing luminaries including Muhammad Ali, "Smokin'" Joe Frazier, "Big" George Foreman, Larry 'The Easton Assassin" Holmes, "Iron" Mike Tyson, "Sugar" Ray Leonard, Roberto "Manos de Piedra" Duran, Julio Cesar Chavez, Evander "The Real Deal" Holyfield, Felix "Tito" Trinidad, Bernard "The Executioner" Hopkins, Alexis Arguello, Hector Camacho, Lennox Lewis, to name a few. Promoter of over 900 championship fights. More than 100 boxers have earned $1 million or more in Don King Productions-promoted fights.
2. Children: Deborah, Carl, Eric.
3. Boxing promoter. Promoter of the Jacksons Victory Tour in 1984, the only tour featuring all six of the Jackson brothers. This worldwide mega-event grossed $150 million. King also brokered an enormous product-endorsement deal on behalf of Michael Jackson with PepsiCo CEO Roger Enrico to appear in a series of television commercials for Pepsi-Cola.
4. Inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, 1997.
5. House was bombed in 1957. Subsequent investigation led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Mapp v. Ohio (1961) -- establishing that the "exclusionary rule" was also applicable to the states, not simply the federal government. Mapp v. Ohio extended the exclusionary rule, which was then being applied to the federal courts, to the state courts. Application of the Fourth Amendment protection against the introduction of evidence obtained from an illegal search and seizure is applied to the states through the 14th Amendment.
6. Was a numbers runner for the Jewish Mafia in Cleveland
7. Is portrayed by Mykelti Williamson in Ali (2001).
8. Campaigned for George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election, and attended the Republican National Convention in New York.
9. Don King Productions promoted or co-promoted 11 of the top 20 highest-grossing live gates in the state of Nevada in the 1990's including four of the top five that decade: Holyfield vs. Lewis II, paid attendance: 17,078, gross: $16,860,300 (NOTE: Also second-highest live-gate gross for any event in the history of the world at that time.), date: Nov. 13, 1999; Holyfield vs. Tyson II, paid attendance: 16,279, gross: $14,277,200, date: June 28, 1997; Holyfield vs. Tyson I, paid attendance: 16,103, gross: $14,150,700, date: Nov. 9, 1996; Tyson vs. McNeeley, paid attendance: 16,113, gross: $13,965,600, date: Aug. 19, 1995; and De La Hoya vs. Trinidad, paid attendance: 11,184, gross: $12,949,500, date: Sept. 18, 1999. (Second-most pay-per-view buys at that time for a non-heavyweight fight at 1.4 million.).
10. His first boxing promotion is staged on Monday, Aug. 28, 1972, a charity event to benefit the minority Forest City Hospital featuring Muhammad Ali in King's hometown Cleveland Arena, which becomes the second-largest gross in history at that time for a boxing exhibition ($80,000). First to guarantee the then-unprecedented amount of $10 million, split between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman to participate in the classic Rumble in the Jungle in Zaire, Africa, on Oct. 30, 1974. This prizefight also holds the distinction of being the first televised boxing event to be viewed by one billion people worldwide.
11. First promoter to guarantee $1 million fight purses to featherweights when Salvador Sanchez met Wilfredo Gomez at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nev., on Aug. 21, 1981. It took 13 years for another boxing promoter to match this feat. First and only promoter to ever hold six world-title fights on the same card-and he did it twice in one year: Judgment Day in Monterrey on Dec. 10, 1994, in Mexico and Unfinished Business on Sept. 17, 1994, in Las Vegas, Nev.
12. First to receive $1 million for delivering to network television a prime-time boxing match featuring Muhammad Ali vs. Ron Lyle on May 16, 1975. Promoted the classic third and final epic battle between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier dubbed by King as the Thrilla in Manila viewed by over one billion people worldwide on Oct. 1, 1975 in Quezon City, Philippines.
13. First promoter to sell a fight for $2 million to a network featuring heavyweight contenders when Ken Norton faced Jimmy Young on ABC at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nev., on Nov. 5, 1977. Promoter of Ultimate Glory between legendary Mexican champion Julio Cesar Chavez and Hector "Macho" Camacho, which became the then-highest-grossing gate for a non-heavyweight fight in history ($4.5 million) and fastest boxing sellout (36 hours) at Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas on Sept. 12, 1992.
14. World-renowned promoter of boxing luminaries including Muhammad Ali, "Smokin'" Joe Frazier, "Big" George Foreman, Larry 'The Easton Assassin" Holmes, "Iron" Mike Tyson, "Sugar" Ray Leonard, Roberto "Manos de Piedra" Duran, Julio Cesar Chavez, Evander "The Real Deal" Holyfield, Felix "Tito" Trinidad, Bernard "The Executioner" Hopkins, Alexis Arguello, Hector Camacho, Lennox Lewis, to name a few.
15. First and only promoter to place two world-heavyweight title bouts on the same card during The Crown Affair, which pitted Larry Holmes against Tim Witherspoon for the World Boxing Council title as well as the second clash between Michael Dokes and Mike Weaver for the World Boxing Association championship in Las Vegas, Nev., on May 20, 1983.
16. First promoter to sell Home Box Office a heavyweight world-title fight telecast for I Love New York featuring Larry Holmes vs. Mike Weaver at Madison Square Garden in New York City on June 22, 1979. He declined an $800,000 bid from ABC in favor of HBO for $125,000.
17. Don King Productions holds the distinction of having promoted or co-promoted some of the largest pay-per-view events in history, as gauged by total buys, including three of the top five: Holyfield vs. Tyson II, 1.99 million buys, June 1997; Tyson vs. Holyfield I, 1.6 million buys, November 1996; Tyson vs. McNeeley, 1.58 million buys, Aug.1995; and Bruno vs. Tyson, 1.4 million buys, March 1996.
18. First promoter to sell Home Box Office a fight for $2 million for Michael "Dynamite" Dokes vs. Mike Weaver I at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nev., on Dec. 10, 1982. Sold Home Box Office a $26 million heavyweight elimination series in 1986, which resulted in Mike Tyson being crowned the first undisputed heavyweight champion since Muhammad Ali.
19. First promoter to guarantee a boxer $10 million paying that amount to "Sugar" Ray Leonard to face Roberto Duran at Olympic Stadium in Montreal, Canada, on June 20, 1980. Promoter of the first fight card at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nev., featuring Julio Cesar Chavez vs. Frankie Randall on Jan, 29, 1994.
20. First promoter to establish his own television network, the Don King Sports and Entertainment Network (DKSEN), in 1982.