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Don King, born on September 20, 1931 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, is an American boxing agent.
He is the most successful and influential professional boxing promoter in the world. He has successfully promoted more than 500 boxing championships around the world, including Ali, Forman, Tyson, Holyfield, Ruiz and other world-famous champions. According to reports, his family property is more than 500 million US dollars. Over the years, due to his outstanding contribution in professional boxing promotion and anti racial discrimination. He has not only won the "promoter of the year" and "lifetime Honor Award" of various international boxing organizations for many times, but also been received by the heads of state of montmorillonite, George Bush, Nelson Mandela, Clinton and so on.
A popular boxer
He has successively promoted the following world famous players: Muhammad Ali, Joan Fraser, George Forman, Larry Holmes, Mike Tyson, suger ray Leonardo and Robert Duran. Delio Cesar chevaliz, ivand holifeld and Felix Trinidad.
Personal achievement
He has promoted nearly 500 world boxing championships, and nearly 100 individual boxers have earned more than $1 million from the fights promoted by Don King industries.
personal honor
The biggest four
Among the ten most watched pay TV games in history, seven were promoted by Don King industries, among which the biggest four were: (1) hollyfield Tyson 1.95 million subscribers in June 1997; (2) Tyson Holyfield 1.6 million subscribers in November 1996; (3) Tyson McNeely 1.58 million subscribers in August 1995; (4) Bruno Tyson 1.4 million subscribers in March 1996
Top 6 games
Don King industries promoted or assisted in the promotion of 12 of the 20 most profitable boxing matches in Nevada History, including the top 6: Holyfield Lewis (the th boxing match), paid audience: 17078, gross profit: 16.86 million US dollars. Time: November 13, 1999 (this is also the highest gross profit record in the world boxing history). (2) hollyfield Tyson (battle h), with 16279 paid audience and gross profit of US $14.277 million. Time: June 28, 1997. (3) hollyfield Tyson (the first showdown), with 16103 paid viewers and gross profit of $1.45 million. time: November 9, 1996. (4) Tyson McNeely, with 16113 paid viewers and gross profit of US $11.3965 million. Time: August 19, 1995. [5] de la Hoya Trinidad, with 11184 paid viewers and gross profit of US $12.949 million. Time: September 18, 1999. (6) Tyson Bruno (Scene 3), with 16143 paid viewers and a gross profit of $10.673 million. Time: March 16, 1996.
Best promoter
■ guaranteed an unprecedented $10 million game in which Muhammad Ali and George Forman shared $5 million each, which was the famous "jungle drum" held in Zaire on October 30, 1974. It was also the first boxing match in history to be broadcast live on television, watched by one billion people around the world. ■ on May 16, 1975, in the competition of Muhammad Ali Yirong ray, he received a television broadcasting fee of up to 1 million US dollars for the first time. ■ promoted the famous "game 3 - final showdown", which was played by Ali and Fraser. This is the "Manila tremor" predicted by people. On October 1, 1975, one billion people around the world watched the game. ■ the first sports promoter to sell $2 million in television network broadcast fees, on November 5, 1977, Ken Burton vs. Jimmy young (Caesar Palace in Las Vegas). ■ the first promoter to sell the heavyweight world ranking competition to HBO. On June 22, 1979, Madison Square Garden, New York, won $800000 from ABC to buy the competition, and only paid $125000 to HBO. On October 2, 1980, the competition between Larry Holmes and Ali was promoted at Caesar's palace in Las Vegas, setting the highest TV broadcast fee record at that time: US $6 million. On June 20, 1980, he pledged US $1 million for the first featherweight competition, namely, El Sanchez - will Fredo Gomez (Venue: Caesar Palace, Las Vegas). A few years later, another boxing promoter surpassed his record. On June 11, 1982, in Caesar Palace, Las Vegas, the famous "honor and pride" was promoted, that is, the battle between Larry Holmes and Gary Cooney, which set a record of US $8 million in television broadcast fee. This fight also set another record, that is, ABC recorded the fight, and paid US $3 million. For the first time, it promoted 23 World Boxing Championships in 1982. ■ on December 10, 1982, he became the first promoter to sell US $2 million to HBO (Michael Dukes - Mike weaver, Caesar Palace in Las Vegas). The first sports promoter to establish his own TV network is Tang Jin sports entertainment TV network. (1982) ■ the first promoter to arrange two heavyweight championship matches together, namely, Larry Holmes Tim withersben (WBC) and Michael Scholes Mike Weaver (WBA). Time: May 20, 1983 ■ promoter of Jackson's five person singing group "Jackson's Victory Tour" (1984). The world tour earned a gross profit of $150 million. After that, Don King and Michael Jackson did a TV series commercial performance for Pepsi Cola. In 1986, Mike Tyson sold $26 million to HBO for a series of rebroadcasting fees, and became another heavyweight champion with no distinction after Ali. ■ he was the first one to arrange 25 world boxing championship matches in one year (1986), breaking his own record of 23 matches (1982), and was named "best boxing promoter of 1986" by WBA. ■ best boxing promoter of WBA in 1987. On June 27, 1988, Michael Tyson Michael Spinks competition was promoted in Victory Square Convention Center in Atlanta, which set the highest gross profit record at that time: 13 million US dollars. That competition also set the highest profit of the day: Tyson won 22 million US dollars, Spinks won 13.5 million US dollars. (Title: once and for a!). On February 20, 1993, a grand stamo of boxing was promoted at Aztec stadium in Mexico City, setting a record of 132274 paid spectators. ■ on September 10, 1993, the fight was promoted in San Antonio, Texas, setting a record of 59995 spectators. This is the second indoor audience record in the world, with 1 million pay TV viewers watching the game. On October 9, 1993, the "JudgmentDay" WBC championship was promoted at the Old Trafford Stadium of the Manchester United club, setting a record for the British audience: 47000. In 1993, he promoted 20 World Boxing Championships and won the title of "WBA century best promoter". ■ the first and only one promoter who arranged five World Boxing Championships in one day. He did this four times in a year. (1994) ■ in 1994, he promoted 47 world boxing championships and was rated as "the greatest promoter forever" by WBC. WBA once again awarded him the honor of "best promoter of the year". ■ in 1994, he was named as the only boxing promoter of "40 most influential sports figures in 40 years" by sports pictorial. On August 19, 1995, MGM Grand Garden stadium in Las Vegas promoted "he's back" - the match between Mike Tyson and Peter McNally, which set the highest gross profit record at that time: 139.65 million US dollars, and also made a boxer (Tyson) win a record 25 million US dollars in a 10 round match. The best boxing promoter of the year of WBA in 1995. On March 16, 1996, Tyson was paid US $30 million to fight against WBC champion Frank Bruno at "MGM Grand Garden Stadium". On November 9, 1996, it promoted the match between Tyson and Holyfield, and set the highest gross profit record at that time: 14.15 million US dollars (MGM garden Stadium). 1.6 million pay TV users watched the match, and 100 countries in the world broadcast the match, which also set the TV broadcast record of boxing match. ■ best promoter of WBA in 1996. ■1996
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