Legendary promoter Don King’s January 29 world title twinbill from Warren, Ohio, will be a $49.99 PPV available through Donking.com, DKPBoxing.com, and itube247.com. Veteran boxing announcer Bob Alexander and former WBA lightweight champion Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini have been named to the broadcast team.
The co-main events will feature WBC cruiserweight champion Ilunga Makabu (28-2, 25 KOs) against Thabiso Mchunu (23-5, 13 KOs) and WBA heavyweight champion Trevor Bryan (21-0, 15 KOs) defends Jonathan Guidry (17-0-2, 10 KOs).
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$49.99? Not 4.99?? I’m expecting one potentially really good fight and about 6-7 pieces of trash.
Hey brother I have bought some weird ppv in my time I remember a ppv back in the day that was reasonable and good Kid Anafawoshie vs Robert Quiroga. I also remember the HBO affiliate TVKO putting on a monthly cheaper ppv series i think it was $9.95 not sure but Nunn Toney was one show and Moorer Cooper was another show all good fights and good value
Isn’t this the same fight that Kid A, collapsed after the fight.
Yes I always thought he had passed from the fight but he is still alive and just had to retire
That’s when I still collected all Fight off TV and got every PPV. That was a crazy Fight
Kid Akeem actually died some time later after a sparring session. He was trying for a comeback
You are right he did thanks for the info. I remember reading something a while back that said he was still around but not true
Johnny, Akeem “Kid” Anifowoshe has been dead since 12-1-94. His opponent Robert Quiroga was stabbed to death 8-16-04
Thanks for the info dont think I ever heard that about Quiroga
Yeah those cruisers are gonna go hammer and tong to get that Canelo money.
This is a Joke of a Heavy Weight Title fight. Guidry has fought nobody and Flores and Stiverne are best two for Bryan. This wouldn’t even be a Tuesday Night Fights Headliner at the Blue Horizon.
Biggest PPV card of the year!
$50. Wow….
It’s getting silly
Guidry is ranked #13 by the WBA. Boxrec has him ranked slightly lower at #256.
The WBA is just nuts…. but I think Boxrec might be a little generous in this case. Interesting people Guidry is ranked higher than on Boxrec include: JD Chapman, Danny Williams, a Ron Guerrero whose name is familiar to me for some reason and Ebenezer Tetteh who is 20-1 with 17ko’s and only lost to Dubois.
I’d take Tetteh over Guidry right now, wouldn’t be shocked if Chapman could beat him either.
Tetteh’s resume doesn’t look all that great, but at 20-1 17 KOs, I would have thought he’d be ranked a little higher than #322. I’m amazed Williams is still active, and Guerrero also sounds vaguely familiar to me. Pretty sure I’ve seen him somewhere along the way, but can’t remember which fight(s) exactly. Regarding Guidry though: #256 by Boxrec, #13 by the WBA. Let that sink in for a minute.
I tried to find a list of all fighters who are currently in Don King’s stable. I’d be real curious if there are any of them who are NOT ranked by the WBA. I know one of the other ones was Cruiserweight Rafael Murphy, who was in the WBA’s top 10, but is no longer. Don’t know if he’s still signed with King or not, but he’s ranked #144 by Boxrec. I guess we’ve learned over the years that one of the perks of signing with King is an automatic WBA ranking. The downside: you’ll be as active as Gary Russell Jr.
I remember back in the pre Tyson early Tyson days King would fill his cards with all ranked heavyweights dont know what they were compensated but he did keep them busy. Sometimes had a full card of ranked heavyweights. I went to one card Holmes Bey Dokes Cobb Bonecrusher Tubbs I think and other ranked guys
They were kept busy back then, and King did produce some quality cards in those days. I was thinking more of Bryan, Charr, etc…
I knew what you meant I’m just old school better days for me back then and probably better days for King as well. Take care
Amir Imam, Vanes Matirosyan, Guillermo Jones, all complained about inactivity after signing with King. I remember when Makabu signed with him and I just remember feeling bad for him, but as it turns out, he’s the only fighter who DKP has managed to keep relatively active, but even he didn’t have a fight last year and this will be his third since he signed with King by my count.
And I think I actually know what happened with Rafael Murphy, his case was a lot similar to Guidry’s. It was on that card with Bryan – Charr/Stiverne (incidentally a year ago to the date of this one, 1-29). If you remember, Murphy was supposed to fight Beibut Shumenov who was the WBA champion despite having been inactive for like a century or two, so I think they gave him the rating just so he could fight that one fight. Shumenov pulled out (because that’s what he does) and there was no need to have Murphy still ranked.
@Lucie You mentioned some of the fighters ranked by boxrec below Guidry. How about Christopher Lovejoy. He’s @ #343. Wasn’t his recent fight with Charr for some sort of WBA title? Also, their “Regular” Champion Trevor Bryan is ranked #35. The WBA doing WBA things.
I forgot about Lovejoy! That would be a tough one, Lovejoy – Guidry?! Think I might actually take Guidry there. Lovejoy weighed in at 306 against Charr, which was 70lbs more than his previous fight and then he fought again in October and had gained another 9lbs. Charr was WBA ‘champion in recess’ when they fought, it was his first in 3 and a half years. Makes you wonder, had Lovejoy won, would he then have been declared “new WBA World Champion in Recess”???
….and by the way, that was the scenario with Murphy. Same thing they’re pulling here with Guidry, as you said.
Hard to believe Bryan-Stiverne was nearly a year ago. The lead-up to that was such a mess, which is no surprise being that the WBA and King were involved.
Lucie this goes for all promoters i always said Arum stole an educated way King a street way but they both screw you. Is this guy related to former lightweight Cochise Murphy? Hey you remember a fighter from back in the day Charlie Brown?
Raphael Murphy isn’t related to Lamar Murphy, but on his boxrec bio, it says he is nephew of Lee Roy Murphy and Ken Murphy. I looked up Charlie Brown as well. I do not remember him, but he fought quite a few guys who I do remember: Sammy Fuentes, Tony Martin, Loreto Garza, Jose Luis Ramirez etc.
Damn, forgot all about Lamar Murphy. He was a South Florida guy who had a lot if televised fights back then. Also remember Charlie “White Lightning” Brown.
Surely, you’ll remember Tuesday Night Fights staple Al “UFO” Hamza, with his patented UFO punch. I guess his real name is Veabro Boykin, which is how he shows up on boxrec.
Murphy fought and lost a controversial dec to Miguel Gonzalez i think? White Lightning was an incredible amateur supposedly faster than Ray Leonard. Got heavy into drugs and ended up in a convalescent home near Chicago. Someone sent me photos when they visited him and they were so sad almost scary he passed a couple years later. For the life of me dont remember Boykin but do remember ring announcer Gordon Wood and fighters Charles Hatchet Brewer and Eric Holland and William Hammer Jones
USF how bout the Liberty City guy Randall Bailey won the title on a KO of Bolilo Gonzalez.
Bolillo Gonzalez! I remember seeing him and suddenly realizing that, every few years, a Mexican fighter would jump up with some crazy ass record out of nowhere. He was literally 48-3-1 when he fought Bailey. First lost was to Zack Padilla, damn! Chavez, Miguel Angel Gonzalez (that was the one who Murphy lost controversially to), Yori Boy Campas, Barrera. All these years later and it’s still going on.
Of course I remember Brewer. We were talking about him not too long ago, he has a son fighting who looks just like him. I do remember Holland, used to always get him confused with Daryl Pickney for some reason who was much smaller. I vaguely remember Jones and I look him up and see he finished at 21-2 with 17kos, both losses were to Holland.
Lucie at the end of his career Gonzalez fought Mark Shark Lewis at the Forum and lost on a cut my friend and I went into the dressing room and his manager Ricardo Maldonado just left so my friend had to drive Gonzalez to the hospital for stitches.
DAMN! That was in 96, he actually fought on until 2005. Finished at 55-8-1 46kos.
I do not remember Hamza! If not for the logo on his trunks, his boxrec photo would look like he fought in the 20’s.
Lucie there were 2 Charlie Browns at the same time White Lightning and Choo Choo. One was white one was black.
Charlie Brown once defeated Frank “Rootin Tootin” Newton. Nothing significant about that. Just wanted to throw Rootin Tootin Newton out there. Was always amused by that nickname
I remember Newton and wondering if this is the guy Brown fought on a major ppv undercard maybe Holmes Cooney as the opening ppv bout or maybe one of Arums major shows anyhow Brown got the decision and everyone thought it was one of the worst ever he was still undefeated at that point
Lucie was Lee Roy Murphy the cruiserweight i am thinking of?
Yep, he was a cruiserweight/heavy, finished at 30-4. Fought Qawi and Johnny DuPlooy. Beat Steve Zouski and Alonzo Ratliff
I would recommend checking out the ending to Lee Roy Murphy and Chisanda Mutti. Absolute punishing fight, and it ended in the 12th with both guys going down simultaneously. Murphy beat the count, Mutti didn’t. Not sure Murphy even realized he won.
Johnny, yes, I remember Bailey very well. He could crack, but wasn’t super durable.
No
What in the entire*** is this? Don King is officially senile now. Nobody is buying this garbage. How is he still even in business
The poster says it all, doesn’t it! The promoter from yesteryear who hasn’t grasped the importance of at least looking like you have class even if you have none! I’m sure those fight contracts are watertight and he’ll find some poor boxer to bleed dry who is silly enough to listen to his BS about a bright future. Yesterday’s man is DK, that’s for sure.
I can’t wait to see makabu fight this guy, is akunnna ma tata from drc congo
That poster illustrates just how far Don King Productions has fallen. Thankfully.