Don King Files Lawsuit Against Ring Magazine, Sela, Michael Hunter & WBA

Details of the suit.

There’s a story up via BoxingScene that Don King Productions has filed a lawsuit against Ring Magazine, Sela, Michael Hunter, and the WBA after the heavyweight fight between Hunter and Jarrell ‘Big Baby’ Miller was announced, which D.K.P. claims was in breach of its promotional agreement with Hunter.

Hunter (24-1-2) was scheduled to fight Miller on September 11th.

Miller announced that the fight was off due to ‘legal and regulatory’ reasons. That has since been met with the aforementioned lawsuit by D.K.P., who also included Bash Boxing, Reid Boxing, and Epic Sports & Entertainment in the suit.

King’s attorney, Alejandro Brito, told BoxingScene the following:

“Multiple players within boxing induced and colluded with each other to misrepresent the rights and contract between Don King and his fighter.”

Here’s an excerpt from the suit:

This action arises from a coordinated, knowing campaign by the WBA and the promoter defendants to undermine and misappropriate DKP’s exclusive rights to promote Hunter, a professional prize fighter under contract with DKP.

The WBA and the promoter defendants knew DKP held exclusive rights, yet they proceeded to organize, facilitate and market a competing event featuring Hunter, intentionally inducing Hunter to breach and/or circumvent DKP’s exclusive rights.

DKP seeks preliminary and permanent injunctive relief prohibiting the promoter defendants from continuing to induce Hunter’s participation in other boxing events and from further interfering with DKP’s contractual and promotional rights, as well as compensatory damages resulting from defendants’ misconduct.

The lawsuit also challenges the opposition for contributing to a civil conspiracy.

Queensberry Promotions’ Frank Warren is also preparing a lawsuit. He’s filing against Sela and TKO for $1 billion on the grounds of their partnership and his exclusion from it.

King’s attorney, Brito, added that King is 94 years of age and was being taken advantage of.

“I’ll let the Warren lawsuit speak for itself,” Brito said. “In the Hunter case, we are trying to resolve issues to enforce our rights and get him to participate in Don’s events. Don King is 94, and I believe the individuals in this lawsuit understood that and are trying to take advantage of that and take over and usurp the business of Don King, giving license to clothes to do the same. We’re simply not going to let that happen.”

BoxingScene reached out to Sela for a response. As more emerges, we’ll update you here on Fightful.