King holding up Ortiz-Stiverne

This sucks, I was really looking forward to this match-up with Ortiz finally stepping up in competition. Hope it still goes down.

http://thaboxingvoice.com/king-holding-up-ortiz-stiverne/49356?var=no

Excerpt:

Ortiz and former WBC heavyweight champion Bermane Stiverne have agreed in principle to fight instead from the Madison Square Garden on October 17th.

Ortiz is signed with Golden Boy Promotions, and Stiverne is signed with Don King. Ortiz has signed the contract to fight and for whatever reason, King appears to be intentionally holding up the fight.

Stiverne

 

That sucks... I really wanted to see this fight too.

 

I was about to post this. Don king and Bob arum, but especially king, need to move on, and leave boxing alone.

Would have been a very entertaining bout

 

Even ignoring the whole 'stealing from his fighters' thing, It's amazing anyone would sign with King nowadays. Guy is so far removed relevancy at this point.

 

I hope they find Ortiz a decent opponent. No matter who it is, I'm confident Ortiz will win. He's so talented

 

I wonder what King's motive would be to hold this up, seems like easy money for him so I don't really understand.