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Don King (boxing promoter)
Donald "Don" King (born August 20, 1931) is an American boxing promoter whose career highlights include 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, Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Julio César Chávez, Ricardo Mayorga, Andrew Golota, Bernard Hopkins, Félix Trinidad, Roy Jones, Jr. and Marco Antonio Barrera. Almost all of them sued him for defrauding them; King settled most lawsuits for six- to eight-digit pay-offs while managing to avoid a conviction of felony fraud or time in jail.
==Early life==
King was born in Cleveland, Ohio, where he attended school and graduated from John Adams High in 1951.〔Williams, Bob. "Donald King's Mother Prays: God, Give Him Grace to Tell it all." ''Cleveland Call and Post'', Nov. 16, 1957, pg. 1.〕 After dropping out of Kent State University, he ran an illegal bookmaking operation out of the basement of a record store on Kinsman Road, and was charged for killing two men in incidents 13 years apart. The first was determined to be justifiable homicide after it was found that King shot Hillary Brown in the back and killed him while he was attempting to rob one of King's gambling houses.〔http://sports.jrank.org/pages/2532/King-Don-Prison-Education.html Don King - A Prison Education〕 King was convicted of second degree murder for the second killing in 1966 after he was found guilty of stomping to death an employee, Sam Garrett, who owed him $600.〔 In an ''ex parte'' meeting with King's attorney, the judge reduced King's conviction to nonnegligent manslaughter for which King served just under four years in prison. King was later pardoned for the crime in 1983 by Ohio Governor Jim Rhodes, with letters from Jesse Jackson, Coretta Scott King, George Voinovich, Art Modell, and Gabe Paul, among others, being written in support of King.〔("SPORTS PEOPLE; Don King Pardoned" ), ''The New York Times'', January 5, 1983. Accessed May 29, 2011.〕
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