Boxing promoter Don King’s voice on the telephone was
booming, full of excitement. It was as if he had a major fight to announce, but
this time, he was talking politics.
King said he was aboard Republican presidential candidate
Donald Trump’s airplane, talking to Yahoo Sports about why, at 85 years old,
he’s getting himself mixed up in one of the most rough-and-tumble campaigns in
years.
“We’re going to fly this thing all the way to the White
House,” King said, guffawing. “I’m supporting the will of the people and the rejection
of a corrupt and racist system. You go back and you’ll see, the founding
fathers and the original 13 colonies, they rejected that system by going
against King George. We will create a whole new system and tear this broken
system we have apart so we can make America great again.
“No one has attacked the system the right way. We deal with
the effects the system creates, but not the cause.”
He began to go on, but he was momentarily distracted. A
familiar face apparently approached him on the plane as he was talking to a
reporter on the phone.
“Hey, Bobby Knight!” King shrieked. “You are the best, man.
The absolute best. What a great coach. What a great guy!”
He turned his attention back to the telephone.
“Man, the great Bobby Knight is here,” King said. “He’s out
there for Donald Trump, too. We’re going to go everywhere we have to go and do
what we need to do to help Donald Trump make America great again.”
It was as if it were 1986 and King was in his prime
promoting boxing. He and UFC president Dana White, who spoke at the Republican
National Convention in July, are supporting Trump.
King’s long-time and often bitter rival, promoter Bob Arum,
is supporting Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
King and Arum have battled viciously, often ruthlessly, for
years, but they’ve mellowed and in 2010, promoted a show together in which they
swapped stories.
-yahoo
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