With several injuries forcing cancellations of several of the title fights planned for Don King’s “Quest for the Best” fight card slated for next Saturday, April 27th at Casino Miami Jai-Alai, the fight card has been postponed to a future date.
“Injuries are part of this game,” said King. “It’s unfortunate, but we’ll aim to get these championship fights together again to bring boxing fans another exciting night of boxing. Ian Green and Ahmed Elbiali will return to defend their respective titles. We appreciate Dan Licciardi and all our friends at Casino Miam Jai-Alai for their friendship and support and look forward to working again with them in the future.”
Fans who purchased tickets for the April 27th fight card can obtain refunds at the Casino Miami Jai-Alai box office.
What terrible news, was so looking forward to not watching this
That was pretty much verbatim what I was going to comment.
DKP is a shadow of its former self. This fight card was shite.
Doesn’t all his shows get cancelled? Tell me when one actually comes together.
Oh they come off… but they ALWAYS look like they’re produced, exclusively, with materials available at the local Walmart.
Yes…. Exactly my thoughts. And the craziest part is that DKP uses their own announcers who just wax poetic about what an awesome guy Don King is and how great his fighters are. I’ll not forget how DKP announcers told us how afraid Tyson Fury should be of Trevor “Face Down” Bryan.
King and Arum are both 92, born four months apart. Arum had a succession plan for Top Rank, and it will continue after he passes. King does not appear to have one for DKP. Carl didn’t have what it took for the business. So King will put together minor cards near Miami until he passes, at which point DKP likely folds. Maybe that’s how he wants it.
Someone will buy the promotion out of probate for a few grand. And that’s all it’ll be worth. Depending on the books, it’s actually something I’d consider. I doubt the sum of his contracts are worth more than $100k at this point. His fighters are all D-grade fringe contenders or C-grade titleholders. You couldn’t make much from them. I’d imagine his semi-annual-ish cards run much better than even money.
They wouldn’t have got paid anyway