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King has spent the past week threatening promoters, Showtime and the WBO, trying to stop his former fighter Ryan Coyne from fighting for the WBO World Title.
Born in Tallahassee, Fla., but raised in the Motor City since age 6, Paris hasn't suffered a defeat since an amateur loss at 17.
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RYAN COYNE CHALLENGES DON KING: "I SIGNED A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL"

Is Don King the devil of boxing?

For years the boxing community has witnessed Don King's stealing from boxers. Countless lawsuit settlements against King and hundreds more accusations have proven the case. Yet even at the age 81, the controversial promoter appears up to his old tricks hustling boxers and causing trouble.

King has spent the past week threatening promoters, Showtime and the WBO, trying to stop his former fighter Ryan Coyne from fighting for the WBO World Title on November 10th against Nathan Cleverly. King hasn't paid a single penny in income to Coyne in 16-months and their three-year contract expired September 17th. King claims the contract was automatically extended for one-year, while Coyne citing numerous breaches and promotional incompetence says three-years lost in the Don King dungeon is enough.

"Let's get away from the flag waiving; the smoke and mirrors for a second and focus on the facts at hand. If Don really thinks he has a valid contract with m

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There's no love lost between Mike Tyson and legendary boxing promoter Don King.

Both Tyson and King were on a panel this weekend at the Boxing Hall Of Fame Induction in Canastota, New York, when the 86-year old promoter attempted to pat Tyson's shoulder in a friendly matter. Iron Mike didn't take kindly to the gesture and reached for his glass of water to throw on King as he walked across the stage. There wasn't much in the glass at the time, but Tyson's message was clear.

After the incident, Tyson spoke with Fight Hype about what went down and said he was "immature" in that moment and shouldn't have thrown anything on King. He also explained that King trying to act friendly was "just bullcrap."

"He talked in there like he was my friend and that was just bullcrap," Tyson said.

"He really did me in."

Tyson and King have been at odds for a long time now. The former boxing champ once sue King for $100 million, alleging King conned him out of a ton of money when he used to promote Tyson's fights.

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Terence Crawford

American boxer (born 1987)

For the actor, see Terence Crawford (actor).

Terence Allan Crawford (born September 28, 1987) is an American professional boxer. He has held multiple world championships in four weight classes, from lightweight to light middleweight, including lineal titles in three of those weight classes, the undisputed championship^[b] at light welterweight and welterweight—and is the first male boxer in history to become a two-weight undisputed champion in the "four-belt era". He has held the World Boxing Association (WBA) light middleweight and World Boxing Organization (WBO) interim light middleweight titles since 2024.

In 2014, Crawford traveled overseas to fight Ricky Burns and won his first world championship, the WBO lightweight title. After two successful defenses, he moved up to light welterweight in 2015 and defeated Thomas Dulorme for the vacant WBO light welterweight title to become a two-division champion.^[2] In 2017, Crawford had a short reign as the undisputed light welterweight champion, being the first sinc