It’s a new year and the world’s greatest boxing promoter, Don King, is ready to present two world title fights at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, FL on Friday, Jan. 29.
While the boxing card will not be open to a live audience, King will present two world title fights–one for the WBA heavyweight championship and the other for the WBA cruiserweight championship plus three other classic fights of the past on Don King TV live-streamed worldwide for $19.95 (www.donking.com).
King, who won the WBA purse bid back on March 2, 2020 for the heavyweight championship fight pitting WBA world heavyweight champion Mahmoud (Manuel) Charr (31-4, 17 KOs) from Germany via Syria and the number one contender in Trevor Bryan (20-0, 14 KOs) from Fort Lauderdale, FL via New York.
The WBA has mandated the fight to be held by Jan. 29th and President Gilberto Jesus Mendoza has stated “should any or both of the fighters (Charr and Bryan) fail to sign the contract, they will lose their position as champion or/and mandatory challenger.”
Both fighters have gone through VADA testing via Dr. Margaret Goodman of Las Vegas, NV.
“I’ve won the purse bid and the WBA is mandating that this fight take place by Jan. 29th and that is when we are having this boxing card in a bubble at the Hard Rock,” said King.
Prior to the main event, Beibut Shumenov, the WBA world cruiserweight champion (18-2, 12 KOs) from Las Vegas, NV via Kazakhstan, will defend his world title against Raphael Murphy (14-1, 11 KOs) from Harlington, TX in a 12-round bout.
A special heavyweight attraction will feature Bermane Stiverne (25-4-1, 21 KOs) from Las Vegas, NV via Canada, the former WBC heavyweight champion.
This is just a move to get Charr stripped. The Hard Rock in Florida says they have no notice of this event happening. King will say it didn’t happen because Charr failed to show up, but there’s no event to show up to, no plans, no flights booked, no arrangements for Charr and his team.
Your comments make sense. Hard to think Don King has made $milllions being a good shyster with a legal team at his beckoning call protecting him at all times. Many fighters have become vulnerable to sign-on with King since they need someone to get them started or even rebuild in their careers.
Last I checked [years ago], Don’s son was a lawyer near Cleveland, Ohio. Don was also from the Cleveland area when he was younger. Don, in some essence, started from nothing and worked his way to the top at one time. Times have changed. Don’s methods of promoting boxing are rather stale and modern fighters are seeking improved opportunities with different promoters. Better? Not real sure how to answer that…..You be the judge!
LOL @ who ever wrote this article. I quit reading after the first sentence where he claims Don King is the worlds greatest boxing promoter.
I’m just curious what’s gonna happen. Don King has done this before to strip fighters of their title; fighters have claimed they didn’t even know they had a fight comming up. My question to that is-If I know as a fan, why doesn’t the fighter and his camp know? In this case, Charr does know but is highly skeptical. If this fight is in fact a hoax, Don King is extra ruthless in trying to charge folks for PPV. I noticed the price was sliced in half, but still, if you pay for this fight-you deserve to get ripped off!
BS acting as ring card man?
DK not lose his licence if he not pay his fighters a fair wage?
This is interesting only because it’s ludicrous.
What if Charr shows up to an empty arena with his gloves and boxing trunks on-will he still get his title stripped? Ha! Can you imagine?…How does Don King think he’s going to get away with this, and if he does, the WBA loses what little credibility it has. You don’t necesarily have to be smart to be a good con man-just a little bit smarter than the people you’re trying to con, and in this case, it doesn’t look like he is. The fact that the PPV card is also featuring replays of Holmes-Cooney, JCC vs Frankie Randall, and Tyson-Holyfield 2 is the dead give away. So that’s what you’ll be paying to watch.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh, the OFFICAL announcement of the heavyweight fight of the century. Not just a regular announcement, but the offical one. This fight will easily have 1,000,000 buys
I knew Lovejoy would pull out again.