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Power: Don King

Don King | 1. Make Me Big

Power: Don King

Sony Music

Society & Culture, History, True Crime

3.9 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

We track Don King’s path to boxing, from a poverty-stricken childhood, to a crime-laden young adulthood, and finally to the moment he enters the arena by attaching himself to greatest fighter of all time. But when you go from the bottom to the top, or at least pretty close, not everyone is happy. Power is a Somethin’ Else production with Sony Music Entertainment. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:42.9

Don King. You know, I can't remember a time in my life when I didn't know who Don King

0:49.4

was. Like, he was just always present, just there. Even folks who don't know why he's

0:56.5

famous know he's famous. How many other boxing promoters does the average person know

1:03.1

who's not into boxing? I feel like it was impossible for me not to have any awareness

1:08.5

of who Don King was. I mean, just listen to the man. Listen to what he does with the English

1:14.8

language. It's gonna be so illustrious. It's gonna be so majestic. Such a regal splendor.

1:20.8

If I had an opportunity to promote you, it would have been something just SKD as we say

1:26.4

it, but after everything got told, something kind of different. I'm a guy who loves people.

1:30.5

I'm an American. I'm a people guy. I'm a promoter of the people for the people in my magic

1:34.0

lives and my people ties. And if you know Don King, you know his signature hair. That anti-gravity,

1:41.3

sticking straight up, frosted tip looks like he got electrocuted hair. And it didn't

1:46.8

stop there. Everything about Don King's luck was wild. Don, all six foot four of them would

1:53.6

roll up in a floor length fur coat. Flashy Tuxedo, blinked out, changed and rings. And he

2:00.7

would just take over. The guy is always like front and center. It's a little bit ironic

2:05.7

because he's a promoter. His job really is to put someone else front and center. But

2:10.5

somehow Don King always brought this spotlight back to himself. And when he did, and when

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