Biografie

Promoter of boxers Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Mike Tyson, among others. World-renowned promoter of boxing luminaries including Muhammad Ali, "Smokin'" Joe Frazier, "Big" George Foreman, Larry 'The Easton Assassin" Holmes, "Iron" Mike Tyson, "Sugar" Ray Leonard, Roberto "Manos de Piedra" Duran, Julio Cesar Chavez, Evander "The Real Deal" Holyfield, Felix "Tito" Trinidad, Bernard "The Executioner" Hopkins, Alexis Arguello, Hector Camacho, Lennox Lewis, to name a few. Promoter of over 900 championship fights. More than 100 boxers have earned $1 million or more in Don King Productions-promoted fights.

Was a numbers runner for the Jewish Mafia in Cleveland

House was bombed in 1957. Subsequent investigation led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Mapp v. Ohio (1961) -- establishing that the "exclusionary rule" was also applicable to the states, not simply the federal government. Mapp v. Ohio extended the exclusionary rule, which was then being applied to the federal courts, to the state courts. Application of the Fourth Amendment protection against the introduction of evidence obtained from an illegal search and seizure is applied to the states through the 14th Amendment.

Campaigned for George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election, and attended the Republican National Convention in New York.

For more than 60 years has personally handed out turkeys to needy families. King's "Turkey Tour" has provided millions of turkey dinners in cities across the country during the holiday season.