{"id":59042,"date":"2025-08-11T03:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T03:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/59042\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T03:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T03:14:11","slug":"don-king-looking-to-prevent-michael-hunter-vs-jarrell-miller-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/59042\/","title":{"rendered":"Don King looking to prevent Michael Hunter vs Jarrell Miller fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">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 \u201cBig Baby\u201d Miller and Michael Hunter on September 11, as part of the Canelo vs Crawford fight week events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">King says he still has a valid contract with Hunter, and as we\u2019ve seen in this exact sort of instance many times, was apparently not involved in the making of this fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">King\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThey continue to disobey the WBA and its clear directive on the Pulev-Hunter championship fight,\u201d said King. \u201cHunter is under contract to Don King Productions and he\u2019ll be fighting for a world championship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">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\u2019d certainly have a point, legally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Promoter Don King has issue a cease-and-desist order to SELA and TKO Group Holdings, who are aiming to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,85],"class_list":["post-59042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}