Off Wing Opinion

Try to stifle the spasms of laughter when reading this next item:

Boxing promoter Don King filed a $2.5 billion defamation suit Wednesday, claiming he was portrayed in a false light on an ESPN "SportsCentury" segment aired last May.

The suit, filed in state court in Broward County, Fla., names ESPN, ABC Cable Networks, Advocate Communications and Disney as defendants, claiming King was falsely portrayed as "a con artist and a thug."

"This case is one of the worst examples of reckless broadcast journalism and blatant disregard for the truth," lawyer Willie Gary said.

Quick, somebody call Jackie Chiles.

I never saw the episode of SportsCentury that King's suit refers to, but you can read his ESPN.com bio entry here. As for other documentary evidence of King's activities, check out Sports Law News, Wikipedia and The Smoking Gun. Then decide for yourself.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 12th, 2005 at 12:46 pm by Eric McErlain and is filed under Boxing. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.