Fla. Court Grants Injunction To Don King Against Shine Fights
by Patrick Sullivan on May 15, 2010

A Florida court has ruled in favor of Don King, saying that the boxing promoter has "sole and exclusive rights" to promote Ricardo Mayorga's fights. Despite this, officials at Shine Fights say they will proceed with their "Worlds Collide" show, in which Mayorga's MMA bout with Din Thomas will headline.

Broward County circuit judge Marc Gold made the ruling today after lengthy court debates yesterday. Mayorga's contract stated that Don King Promotions had "sole and exclusive rights to secure and arrange all professional boxing bouts." Shine Fights legal counsel argued that the contract should be limited to boxing bouts, but Judge Gold ruled that Mayorga's participation in this evening's MMA fight would amount to "tortious interference," i.e. the willful disturbance of a contract.

Despite the injunction, Shine Fights will proceed with the fight and the show, which airs on PPV live from the Crown Coliseum in Fayetteville, NC. According to Shine Fights, they're "still going forward with the fight."

Mayorga will make his MMA debut against BJJ black belt and UFC veteran Thomas. The two have developed a grudge in the lead-up to the fight, with a long war of words and a scuffle at a prefight press conference. Mayorga-Thomas will anchor the broadcast, and the live card will begin with the MMA debut of three time BJJ world champion and 2009 ADCC Absolute champion, grappling ace Braulio Estima.

 |  (66) Comments GO HARD: just a bunch of crap. now i heard that this fight is gonna happen but they will not promote it.. and now ninja vs heath is the headliner. i really wanted din to destroy that boxer dude. Wandering_Minstrel: Don King is a piece of shit. He won't want to promote Mayorga when he gets his ass kicked by Din Thomas. Mickey knox: I don't know how old Don King is, but it sure would be nice if he died already. I don't care if it's from natural causes or one of the coked out boxers he promotes pulls a drive by on his house. All I'm saying is it would be nice. horizontalcracker: This event has actually been completely canceled due to this. D_V: the fight's still on, as far as I've seen on any site so far. Mickey knox: I was gonna try to post a pic of her, but, once again, you can't post pics on the news sec. Patrick Sullivan: I'm hearing that Mayorga is out, but Rua vs Heath is the new main event. There's still Estima's debut, but fucking Don King, Jesus Christ. B_Type13X2: When the fuck are fighters going to learn to stay away from that piece of shit? If you deal with Don King you are truly stupid he is going to screw you over, use you and then cut you loose after he's used you up. Leave you with nothing. IwishIwasMMA: I really hope Don King dies soon. I mean they say the evilest people in the world live the longest, but if there is a god he needs to make an exception... B_Type13X2: I want him to die by being stung by a Geographic Cone Snail. Why? because cone snails fuck up your nervous system and cause you to die in a symphony of shit. Sweating, headache weakness, Lethargy, ataxia, tremors, paralysis, cyanosis, aphoria, dysphagia, seizues, dyspinea, bronchorhea, bronchospasm, respiratory failure, coma, and hypertension. Gastroenteric symptoms include, severe nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain.. Basically he will shit, vomit, and piss himself to death while he convulses in a seizure until he has a heart attack(that is if don king even has a heart.) and has complete respiratory collapse. thebutterflybee: Ashka won't be able to help you with the deadly snail. UPS don't make deliveries from Mike's basement to anywhere. Aus_BB: Ok im from Australia and i have never heard of this snail O_O Cryptic_Soldier: If we are going to kill Don King why dont we do it the old fashioned way and just pump him full of blood quagulants, peel him like a potatoe, and then roll him around on a plastic sheet covered in salt? OR we could pump him full of Blood quagulants, and then drill holes up his finger tips while giving him steady doses of Epinepharine to keep his nerves going even when he is in shock, then you cap it off by preforming hosts of unneeded surgury while letting him watch his organs exit his body. OR You could infect him with parasites... Liek those worm things you can injest by drinking and then they grow to be several feet long and can spread all over your body? OR you could just do my personal favorite and use a high pressure nail gun to pierce several key parts of his body suspending him from a wall and then let him starve to death? horizontalcracker: Let's wrap in him in fresh buffalo hide, and push him off a desert cliff on to jagged rocks below. But not high enough to kill him, just high enough to cripple him. Then let the sun dry out the buffalo hide until it squeezes his organs out of his body like a juicer. B_Type13X2: you know what fuck it we'll just take him out in broad day light and shoot him in the back of the head and pay the consequences for it how about that? Masternate: what an ass, burn in hell you anti mma boxing douchebag
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