Last
week, Lennox Lewis and Don King were in Africa discussing the possibility
of working with each other. After yesterday's fire truck donation ceremony
in New York City, Fightnews spoke to King and attempted to find out if
any agreements were reached between DKP and Lewis.
When
you were in Africa with Lennox, did you come to any agreements with each
other?
Lennox and I enjoyed a good relationship and good conversation. Hopefully
things will come to fruition from that conversation.
Well...
What was discussed?
Lennox was discussing retirement or giving up the belts. So, I think I
should let HIM make that announcement because it's his life.
What
do you think Lennox will do?
We did talk about him giving up one of the belts and we'll find out if
he is or not.
Has
Lennox shown interest in being promoted by DKP?
Yes. He's shown great interest. We just have to see how we can make that
work.
What
would it take to make it work?
Me.
After
you, then what would it take?
Then the world. Once I put it together, it's gonna be good for the whole
world. There will be a lot of exciting things that he can do that will
be very good for himself.
If
you do put 'it together', what might these 'exciting things' be?
I have to go to my creative juices to find out what my plan would be.
Everything I do is with capitalism and design, rather than frustration
and misguided emotionalism. I'm looking forward to sitting down at the
table of brotherhood and supping with him together. We need to see what
we can build upon.
I
thought you were both 'supping together' in Africa.
We will sup again!
What's
going on with you and Mike Tyson? Are you still talking to Shelly about
working with Tyson?
Of course. I'm always interested in working with a fellow American. Some
of us get limited in our views. People that are your friends, you end
up turning on them thinking that they are your enemy. Once Mike clears
that cancer of the brain, my door is always open to him. He was one of
the first guys that I done a lot of good things with. I have nothing evil
to say about him or anything degrading. Mike is a fellow human being and
he has his ideas and if those ideas can't be corrected by conversation
- which he has never had with me - then we have to correct it within our
system of justice. It's a sad commentary because it is dividing our community.
How
is it dividing the community?
When we fight over petty disputes and frustrations, we will have people
chosing sides....some with me and some with Mike - and that's dividing
our community.
'Petty
dispute'? It's a $100 million 'petty dispute'.
Yeah, well.... I got $110 million on him! So, what is that?! If you are
going to give significance to his 100, you gotta give significance to
my 110 against him! None of it is beneficial to either one of us. We both
lose and the community loses. The ones that want to believe me and be
on my side - and the ones that want to believe him and be on his side.
In the mean time, before it can be adjudicated in the courtroom, we are
divided. That is the age old theory in this system - to divide and conquer.
What I'm trying to do is overcome that and change it to a better quality
of promoting friendship, uninimity and constricting negatism to it's narrowest
form. There's no negativism in me. I want to be able to work together.
Working together works. Black and white alike, side by side, shoulder
to shoulder, back to back. We have to overcome the evil that's out there!!
