Don King Productions to host night of championship boxing in Warren, Ohio on January 29, 2022 near Cleveland, King a Cleveland native and legendary boxing promoter who also publishes the Call and Post Newspaper, a Black Cleveland weekly that is also distributed in Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio.....By Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanon;inenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader
By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief. Coleman is a former public school biology teacher and a seasoned Black political, legal and investigative reporter who trained as a reporter at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio for 17 years.
WARREN, Ohio - Legendary boxing promoter and Cleveland native Don King, who also publishes the Call and Post Newspaper, a Black Cleveland weekly distributed also in Columbus and Cincinnati, will host a championship night of boxing on Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at the W.D. Packard Music Hall in Warren, Ohio, a city some 60 miles southeast of Cleveland that is roughly 28 percent Black and has a population of some 42,000 people. King returned to Cleveland from Florida, where he resides, to promote the event in his hometown at a recent press conference.
Tickets are available at Ticketmaster or via W.D. Packard Music Hall at 330-841-2619. Tickets are priced at $83-$553. The fights will be available on Donking.com, DKPBoxing.com or itube247.com. Retail price is $49.99.
Don King Promotions will present a six-championship fight card on Saturday night. Doors open at 6 p.m. with the first fight beginning at 7 p.m.
The co-main events will feature two World championships. Ilunga Makabu (28-2 with 25 knockouts) of South Africa will defend his WBC World Cruiserweight Championship against Thabiso Mchunu (23-5, 13 KOs) of South Africa. The other co-main event will pit WBA World Heavyweight Champion Trevor Bryan (21-0, 15 KOs) of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. against Jonathan Guidry (17-0-2, 10 KOs) of Dulca, La.
“It is going to be a great, super night of boxing,” King said.
There will be six championship fights and two world titles.
"We are going to put fun back into boxing." King said. "It is going to super, spectacular greatness. We are going to enjoy ourselves again and not be ruined by COVID.”
King has promoted bouts with some of the most prominent names in boxing headlining the events. In 1972 he spearheaded a charity exhibition in Cleveland and brought in Muhammad Ali to fight.
“Ali came in and brought five or six guys to Cleveland, Ohio, to start me off with boxing,” King said during the press conference.
Dubbed “The Rumble in the Jungle, ” King promoted the fight between Ali and George Foreman in Zaire., and in 1975, he also promoted the “Thrilla in Manila,” the third and final fight between Ali and Joe Frazier.
The flamboyant and legendary boxing promoter who gives back to the Black community of Cleveland and elsewhere has four other NABA titles on the line as well on Saturday in Warren. The NABA Gold Heavyweight championship will pit veteran Alonzo Butler (34-3-2, 25 KOs) from Chattanooga, Tenn. against Ahmed Hefny (13-1, 5 KOs) from Egypt, via Queens, N.Y.
The NABA Cruiserweight title clash will feature Johnnie Langston (9-3, 3 KOs) of Sarasota, Fla. and Nick Kisner (22-5-1, 6 KOs) of Baltimore.
The NABA Middleweight Championship will be up for grabs as Cleveland’s Michael Moore (18-3, 8 KOs) will take on Anthony Lenk (17-7, 7 KOs) of Niagara Falls, N.Y.
The sixth and final title fight of the night will showcase Cody Wilson (10-3, 7 KOs) of West Virginia and Tre’Sean Wiggins (12-5-3, 6 KOs) of Newburgh, N.Y. battling for the NABA Welterweight championship.
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