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    Don King: Only in America

    Year Award Category Nominee(s) Result Ref.

    1997

    Peabody AwardsHBO Pictures and The Thomas Carter Company Won [2]

    1998

    American Cinema Editors AwardsBest Edited Two-Hour Movie for Non-Commercial TelevisionSteven Cohen Won [3]Cinema Audio Society AwardsOutstanding Achievement in Sound blandning for Television – Movie of the Week, Mini-Series or SpecialsRichard Lightstone, Jeffrey Perkins, and David J. HudsonNominated [4]Critics' Choice AwardsBest Picture Made for Television Won [5]Directors Guild of amerika AwardsOutstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic SpecialsJohn HerzfeldWon [6]Golden Globe AwardsBest Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for TelevisionNominated [7]Best Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for TelevisionVing RhamesWon Golden Reel AwardsBest Sound Editing – Television Movies o
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    Don King

    American boxing promoter (born 1931)

    This article is about the boxing promoter. For other people, see Don King (disambiguation).

    Donald King (born August 20, 1931) is an American boxingpromoter, known for his involvement in several historic boxing matchups.

    King's career highlights include, among multiple other enterprises, promoting "The Rumble in the Jungle" and the "Thrilla in Manila". King has promoted some of the most prominent names in boxing, including Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Larry Holmes, Tomasz Adamek, Roberto Duran, Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Chris Byrd, John Ruiz, Julio César Chávez, Ricardo Mayorga, Andrew Golota, Bernard Hopkins, Félix Trinidad, Roy Jones Jr., Azumah Nelson, Gerald McClellan, Marco Antonio Barrera, Salvador Sanchez, Wilfred Benitez, Wilfredo Gomez and Christy Martin. Some of these boxers sued him for allegedly defrauding them. Mike Tyson was quoted as saying, "He did more bad to black fighters than any white prom

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    Don King


    Don King, born August 20, 1931, is an American boxing promoter. He has spent four years in prison. Although King has supposedly bribed men, stolen money, and hired assassins, the only things he has been convicted of are manslaughter and fraud.

    In 1954, a man named Hillary Brown tried to rob King on the street. King’s response was to shoot him. This received a justifiable homicide ruling from courts because of the theft aspect of the crime.

    Later, King killed another man, stomping him to death in the street after pistol whipping him. The reason he killed this second man, employee Sam Garrett, was that Garrett owed him six hundred dollars. Although this was at first ruled second-degree murder, the final sentence did not reflect this, and had instead been reduced to manslaughter. After four years in prison, he was pardoned by the governor of Ohio, despite a fifteen-year sentence.

    Although he has quite an impressive criminal record, he has promoted some of the most famo