Boxing's Dirty Business

Cheat!

Sony Music

True Crime, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Boxing. It's one of the most popular sports in the world, watched by millions of people both at ringside and on television. But have you ever stopped to wonder who is putting together the fights in the first place. This week on Cheat, we’re going to the '70s, to the golden age of boxing—where historical fights like Rumble in the Jungle and Thrilla in Manilla are being fought. At the centre of it all is a boxing promoter by the name of Don King. On the surface he seems like boxing’s boy wonder, but he’s been cutting corners and in 1977 he cut one of his biggest with all all-American Boxing tournament. A Somethin’ Else production. Exclusive! Grab the NordVPN deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/cheat Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's 1967 and Nightclub owner Donald King has just been found guilty of manslaughter.
0:15.8	An unforeseen fight with one of his business associates has led to Donald King being arrested
0:21.4	and sentenced to four years in prison at the Marion Correctional Institute.
0:27.2	He's lost everything, his business, his freedom and even his name.
0:33.4	Those four years are long, hard and bleak, but it gives King time to think and plot his
0:40.0	next moves.
0:42.1	He decides he's going to turn his life around and he wants to go big, but not in the nightclub
0:48.2	industry where he worked before and was sent to jail.
0:51.7	No, he wants to take over the world of boxing.
0:56.8	You can get in the game, not at the top of the game, but there are enough fighters who
1:03.1	don't have a home, don't have good representation.
1:06.8	There are enough venues where you could get credit to put on a show, you could put money
1:13.1	down and finance the promotion, all the kind of technical things you have to go through
1:19.8	are a lot more accessible to people of all walks of life, colors and creeds.
1:25.6	Four years have passed and King has served his time.
1:29.9	After he came out, he embarked on his boxing dream journey and it's pretty much a success
1:35.5	story.
1:36.8	He made himself the central touchstone figure to all the boxers he promoted.
1:42.9	Other promoters that have had rivaling success, I don't know that by the numbers anyone
1:49.4	has bested him as a legend, but that I think again is because how well he crafted the
1:56.7	it personalities around him, how well he promoted other fighters but always took a bit of
2:04.4	the spotlight for himself.
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