Promoter Don King has issue a cease-and-desist order to SELA and TKO Group Holdings, who are aiming to put on a fight between Jarrell “Big Baby” Miller and Michael Hunter on September 11, as part of the Canelo vs Crawford fight week events.
King says he still has a valid contract with Hunter, and as we’ve seen in this exact sort of instance many times, was apparently not involved in the making of this fight.
King’s biggest issue is that he won a purse bid for the rights to a fight between Hunter and pretend WBA titleholder Kubrat Pulev, which he would assumedly put on somewhere in Florida in one of the rare cases in modern times that King actually promotes a boxing event.
“They continue to disobey the WBA and its clear directive on the Pulev-Hunter championship fight,” said King. “Hunter is under contract to Don King Productions and he’ll be fighting for a world championship.”
Snark aside, if King has a contract with Hunter, he and his team have a pretty decent history of preventing things like this, and if he does have a valid contract with Hunter, he’d certainly have a point, legally.