After that he identified with anybody who had a hurt, a loss, and when he got elected to the Senate he became a moral witness to poverty. King never lost his commitment to an interracial society, to democracy, to non-violence, to reason. The Life and Crimes of Don King is a scathing portrait of the flamboyant, brutal and corrupt boxing promoter and the dark corrupt underworld of boxing. I now know a lot of fighters who are almost all black and Latino who have been exploited. I view fighters as exploited workers, uneducated, like the farm workers of the 1960's and the miners of the 1930's.
Fighters are the only athletes without a labor union.
Baseball, football, basketball, hockey, all have a union. They're victimized and exploited by the promoters and I view my writing about boxing as another way to defend the workingclass against the rich plutocrat. When I met him late in life he talked to me about how much he hated fighting. God gave me the gift to be a great fighter. I don't enjoy it.