Boxing impresario, one-time killer, HBO movie subject, Cleveland’s favorite coiffed son — many are the features in Don King’s cap. He’s also got a street rep for being a fierce foe, especially in the courtroom. Deadspin has dredged the deep legal flow of the U.S. Court of Appeals and found an interesting legal arm-wrestling match King has going now with the owner of a taco place in Puerto Rico.
Way back in the salad days of 2003, Delia Esquilin-Mendoza’s taco shop plucked a stray closed-circuit transmission of the Roy Jones Jr. — Jon Ruiz bout from the ether. Like Metallica and countless other rich tight asses before him, King was no fan of free content; his outfit — Don King Productions — sued Delia, eventually winning $12,000 for the bootleg screen time. When Delia didn’t cough up the change, King had her 1995 Toyota 4 Runner repo’d. But this must be one crafty taco seller, because Delia eventually got the ruling booted from the court on a technicality.
