20 episodes
Powerplay: The House of Don King BBC Podcasts
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- Society & Culture
Don King killed two men. The first case was ruled justifiable homicide. In 1967 he was found guilty of stomping to death an employee, Sam Garrett, on the street. Garret owed him $600. Released just five years later and later pardoned, King entered the world of boxing, promoting some of the biggest fights in sports history, including The Rumble in the Jungle, and managing the most famous names in the fight game, including Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson. Former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis and boxing writer Steve Bunce tell the story of the controversial life of Don King.
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Episode 8: The Endless Struggles of King.
Don King was fighting for his position as the top of Boxing. He went to court for Mike Tyson’s next fight and their very own ‘Watergate’. And, what of King now?
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Episode 7: Buster Douglas knocks out King
A harrowing defeat for Mike Tyson in Tokyo. King, was sitting at ringside next to Donald Trump, his guest in Japan. His fighter lost, but King always had a plan.
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Episode 6: Breaking Hearts and Minds: How King Got Tyson.
With contributions from Boxing insiders and former fighters, we hear about King’s relentless pursuit of power and money, with Mike Tyson at the helm of his stable of boxers.
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Episode 5: The End of Muhammad Ali and the Birth of the Lost Generation
Featuring Heavyweight Champion Tim Witherspoon, Steve Bunce and Lennox Lewis on the so-called ‘Lost Generation’ as Don King was attracting the attention of the FBI.
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Episode 4: The Full King Takeover
Don King was at the very top of Boxing, and he’d do anything to stay there. Nothing was off-limits. Steve Bunce and Lennox Lewis with the story.
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Episode 3: King makes The Rumble happen
In October 1974 Muhammad Ali and George Foreman had a ‘Rumble in the Jungle’, a fight that has become one of the most famous events in sports history, and Don King made it happen