Shine Fights Event Cancelled Following Don King’s Court Action

From Karyn Bryant’s Twitter:

It’s amazing how quickly it went from an exciting event featuring the MMA debut of a former boxing world champion to the complete cancellation of the event.

From Karyn Bryant:

It’s now a bad main event and a bad value on PPV. This is a real shame for fight fans and a very big shame for Din Thomas who stood to make one of the biggest paydays of his career.

Shortly before 1:30pm EDT Josh Gross of SI tweeted the following regarding Don King’s seeming success in preventing tonight’s Shine Fights bout between Ricardo Mayorga and Din Thomas:

At that point it looked like the fight was off as a court injunction mere hours before the scheduled time of the fight leaves Shine Fights with no time to seek a replacement, nor any time to figure out legal options to go ahead with the fight. However, now Gross tweets:

From a Shine Fights press release. It looks like the fight is going ahead.

- Via Max Boxing

Typical shady stuff from King. If King was actually worried about attempting to prevent the event from happening why did he not push the issue sooner? Am I supposed to believe that DKP just learned about the event now? I find it very far fetched to think that I am more up to speed on what Don King’s contracted fighters are doing than he is.

I’ll be watching his fight at Shine Fights with great interest.