News - Don King

Former junior middleweight champion Roman Karmazin tried to warn his countryman, Nikolai Valuev, to get away from co-promoter Don King, but the seven-foot Russian giant didn't listen to his advice. Valuev is co-promoted by King and Sauerland Event read more ...

BoxingScene.com spoke with Shelly Finkel, adviser to WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko, to get his thoughts on the recent monetary demand from promoter Don King, who is negotiating on behalf of Nikolai Valuev. Team Klitschko offered Valuev $1 million dollars for a potential May fight. King countered with a $4 million dollar demand read more ...

Don King Productions and Sauerland Event have countered K2 Promotions latest offer to former two-time World Boxing Association heavyweight champion Nikolai “Giant Russian” Valuev (50-2, 34 KOs) to face World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (39-2, 37 KOs) with a deal calling for a 60-40 percentage split read more ...

Tyson has joined the broadcast team to add color commentary to King’s “Halloween Thrilla” fight card Saturday (Oct. 31) from Treasure Island Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. The exciting five-fight undercard will be offered globally on pay per view for $5.99 at www.DonKingTV.com beginning at 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT/10 p.m. GMT. The legendary former undisputed heavyweight champion, whose greatest years were spent with King read more ...

Boxing promoter Don King has asked the World Boxing Association to declare Nikolai Valuev its undisputed heavyweight champion after Saturday’s match between Valuev and WBA “champion in recess” Ruslan Chagaev at Hartwall Arena in Helsinki, Finland, was cancelled. “The World Boxing Association should act swiftly and unequivocally to designate Nikolai Valuev as its undisputed heavyweight champion,” King said from New York read more ...

Legendary promoter Don King today visited Bergamo, Italy, where he met the president of the province of Bergamo, met the mayor of Bergamo, and toured the recently discovered remnants of an underground Catholic church dating from the 6th century. King's tour was hosted by a boxer he represents, Italian 154-pound champion Luca "Bergamo Bomber" Messi, and is the first stop read more ...

Danny Williams will face Matt Skelton next February in London in a bout which could see the winner handed a shot at a heavyweight world title. read more ...

Sources close to the situation have informed Boxingtalk.com that IBF heavyweight champion Chris Byrd is now a promotional free agent. "Free as a Byrd," said our source. Byrd was unavailable for immediate comment. Last night Boxingtalk reported that WBC heavyweight champion Hasim Rahman is a free agent as well, and Top Rank has made him a lucrative offer to fight Oleg Maskaev in early 2006 read more ...

Promoter Don King, who promotes all four world jr middleweight champions (Ricardo Mayorga/WBC, Alex Terra Garcia/WBA, Roman Karmazin/IBF, Daniel Santos/WBO) is planning a tournament to sort out the 154lb division. The first round would likely land on January 7, Roberto Sandoval, Terra Garcia's manager, told Fightnews.com. Sandoval added that the preference is for Garcia (25-1, 24 KO’s) to face Mayorga. read more ...

..."I said I was going to win every round one by one, and that's what I did," said Wright (49-3). "Once I saw I could hit him with my jab and hurt him with it, I didn't deviate from my game plan." According to CompuBox statistics, Wright outlanded the Puerto Rican 262 punches to 58 and outjabbed him by more than a 12-1 ratio, 185 to just 15. There were no knockdowns but Trinidad was wobbled several times, including in the last minute of the fight. So dominant was Wright that despite overwhelming support for Trinidad among a crowd of 14,176 in the MGM Grand Garden at the start, by the end ... read more ...