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hands out in a ludicrous attempt to
prove they are clean.
Don King, who was given $1.5
million by ABC-TV to find the best
fighters in the country and employ
them in what would be called the
U.S. Boxing Championships, stoutly
insists he’s innocent of any wrongdo
ing.
Al Braverman and Pat Flood, two
of the men who worked in King’s
office here as “bookers” and helped
provide fighters for his tournament,
also swear they are blameless con
cerning allegations of extortion,
kickbacks and falsification of fighters’
records in King’s tournament which
have led to a full-scale Federal
Grand Jury investigation.
Likewise, James A. Farley, Jr.,
the New York State Athletic Com
mission chairman whom King hired
to serve on his tournament commit
tee, is protesting there wasn’t any
thing wrong with what he did. That
is pretty much the same line being
taken by John Ort, whose “World
Ratings” in Ring magazine were
used by King and then proven to
have been doctored.
ABC-TV disclaims any knowledge
of what was going on, and as evi
dence of its good faith, has sus
pended King’s tournament and
hired Michael Armstrong, former
chief counsel of the Knapp Commis
sion, to investigate the mess.
Everybody’s innocent; nobody’s
to blame.
The evidence strongly
otherwise, however.
suggests
For example:
Fact: Of the eight heavyweights
who participated in King’s tourna
ment, seven of them — Larry
Holmes, Johnny Boudreaux, Leroy
Jones, Stan Ward, Dino Dennis,
Kevin Isaacs and Scott LeDoux —
were either managed or advised by
King or members of his staff.
Fact: Braverman and Flood called
themselves “booking agents” for
King, but acted as matchmakers and
managers at the same time, a prac
tice specifically prohibited in every
athletic commission charter in this
country.
Fact: Some of the fighters in Ort’s
“World Ratings” were discovered to
have “victories” added to their rec
ords in “fights” they never had.
Fact: A featherweight in the tour
nament said he was paid only $5,000
of a $7,500 purse he had been prom
ised to fight David Vasquez, the re
mainder going to Braverman as a
“booking fee.”
Fact: New York State law forbids
any member of the Athletic Com
mission, most certainly its chairman,
to involve himself with any outside
boxing organization, but Farley al
lied himself with King’s tournament
and even attended meetings in
King’s office.
How can Farley possibly explain
away that?
King faithfully promised Boone
Arledge, ABC-TV’s president of
sports, he would obtain only the
“best” U.S. fighters for his tourna
ment, but that turned out to be a
laugh. All he did was obtain medioc
rities. The only one who could get
excited about them was Howard
Cosell, you know, the fellow who
always tells it like it is.
Farley now says everybody is
overreacting, but I’m sorry,1
disagree with him.
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ABC-TV’s astonishing naivettl
whole business. Four yearsj[
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win the zone meet.
Sixteen Aggies posted seasoi
performances in 11 events.
David Williams was extre:
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