Speaking of boxing vampire Donkin, it can be said that friends who are familiar with boxing are no strangers, and everyone's impression of him only stays on how to exploit Mike Tyson, who has fished about a hundred million dollars from Tyson. In fact, Donkin's story is far from a collaboration with Tyson, and his legendary experience is enough to make a movie. Today Xiaobian will introduce you to you.
Donkin was born in August 1931 and is still active at the age of 87 this year. Born in Ohio, usa, he started out as a street vendor selling peanuts. Later, after his father's accidental death, he dropped out of school and went to nightclubs and casinos to eat and help gamblers run errands and learn their tongues. Tonkin has one of the greatest strengths, good at observing the color of speech, able to speak the Tao, and extremely high emotional intelligence. Tonkin is 1.95 meters tall and weighs more than 120 kilograms, with a typical heavyweight figure, similar to Lennox-Lewis. He also started playing four boxing matches, the first won, the second abstained, the third lost, and the fourth ko. Later, Donkin found that he was not suitable for boxing at all, so he changed his career to a boxing middleman.
Donkin is very adventurous, pit and deceived, fierce, no evil, he also cheated his partners, after the matter was revealed, he killed people, and was later sentenced to "manslaughter" and spent 4 years in prison. In the early '70s, he continued to work as a boxing middleman after he was released from prison, and he deserved to be a vampire, because in general, boxing promoters only got 10% commission, but Donkin could get 40% or more. His cleverness and eloquence have indeed brought a lot of wonderful events to the world professional boxing world, such as the jungle battle between Foreman and Ali, the game between Tyson vs Spinks, the game between Tyson and Hollyfield, etc. He has been a boxing promoter for Fraser, Ali, Foreman, Tyson, Hollyfield, Trinidad and other people.
Donkin can do whatever it takes to facilitate the game, cheating and lobbying on both sides, left and right, and his three-inch tongue once persuaded Forman and Ali, and finally contributed to the big war. He also persuaded Ali to play against Holmes, from which he made a profit of $10 million. Donkin and U.S. President Donald Trump also worked together many times, when Trump was also a boxing promoter. Many boxers knew the greed of the old fox Donkin, but they still threw themselves into his flag like moths to the fire.
Donkin is in decline today, but he may have made more money from boxers than the $400 million Tyson earned in his career. Donkin was a powerful man, and was later replaced by Hoya, Arum, Hearne and others. Now he still has boxers signed, but there are no big names. Looking at what Donkin did, it was indeed unscrupulous to achieve the goal, even to the extreme, and indeed attracted people's hatred.