So WHAT did Boxing Promoter Don King Think of Female Boxing in 1980?

MARCH 1980  WBB ISSUE : DON KING ADDRESSED WOMEN’S BOXING IN THE FIRST WOMEN’S BOXING MAGAZINE THAT WAS EVER PUBLISHED.   IT WAS CALLED THE WBB, THAT WAS LATER RENAMED ” WBB GLOVE”. 

Is a woman’s place in the boxing ring? By Don King, WBB magazine, March 1980

WOMEN’S BOXING is something that was unacceptable in the past. It’s not new, it’s been going on a long time, but I think that it’s becoming more acceptable.

Today’s hue and cry is equality, equality of the sexes, and whatever a woman wants to do I think that’s her personal decision.

I think it’s the decision of the fans to go see what they want to go see, and the ones that don’t like it they shouldn’t go see it, they shouldn’t be a part of the encouragement.

Truthfully, being a member of a minority it would be very difficult for me to go against any minority trying to do anything they support and advocate, so whatever the women want to do I think it’s a personal decision and I certainly do support the women.

AS FOR PROMOTING women’s boxing, I certainly would consider it,. I’ve been approached on several occasions to look at the women. In fact, I have a women’s program that they brought me on videotape that I viewed and there certainly is one of those matches in there, on of those girls who was just an exciting prizefighter. Really, I’ve seen a lot of them and a lot of them are just doing things in a quasi-feminine style, but this girl was just throwing hooks and jabs and moving back, stepping in and throwing uppercuts, hey, she could fight and I got the film of it.

I was really excited about this girl, and I just may put her in there in between bouts someday. I think it would really be something super because then you would not view that as in a feminine situation, where they’re delicate and dainty and they can’t help themselves. When you see this young lady, she can perform.

I’ve never been opposed to women’s boxing. I’ve always been for human rights, equal rights.

Don King

LETS FAST FORWARD TO 1987:   DID DON KING DO ANYTHING TO HELP WOMEN’S BOXING AFTER VIEWING THE TAPE HE MENTIONED?

APPARENTLY NOT…..LADY TYGER TRIMIAR WENT ON A MONTH LONG HUNGER STRIKE AGAINST DON KING IN 1987…..In an exclusive Interview with Lady Tyger Trimiar,  I asked Lady Tyger what Don King did about her staging a hunger strike against him.  Lady Tyger told me that he said that he would do something for women’s boxing.  I asked her if he fulfilled his promise….her response….”He did nothing.”
Reporter of this story: Sue TL Fox, 12/10/99