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What started as an idea for a faction storyline with a mystery backer concluded with legendary promotor Don King getting involved with professional wrestling again — with a link to one of his most iconic boxing events. 
It started two years ago when Major League Wrestling CEO Court Bauer and his team were kicking around the idea.
They had to wait for the right wrestler and group to employ it. 
That presented itself when rising star Alex Kane, after a storyline falling out, was no longer under the wing of Dan Lambert and his MMA-based American Top Team in November 2021. 
Kane then started his own on-screen Boymaye Fight Club, which has grown to seven members, to be his new stable that is presented similar to an entourage and team a fighter brings to the ring with them.
“It felt like, well this is it,” Bauer told The Post.
The name pays homage to the 1974 “Rumble in the Jungle” fight in Zaire that King promoted between Muhammed Ali and George Forman where fans chanted “Ali, boymaye!” or “Ali, kill him!” 
The chance for a crossover moment was too enticing not to go for it.  
“That was the perfect connection,” Bauer said “There was no other option on the table that we felt was so organic and would be such a great native of Don King promoting champions from Ali, to [Mike] Tyson to Kane and we’re like that’s the perfect landing if we can stick the landing.”  
They did so Saturday night when King, 91, was revealed as the faction’s mystery backer prior to Kane defeating Alex Hammerstone by submission for the MLW world heavyweight championship at MLW Never Say Never, the company’s first premium live event offering with FITE+. 
The man who helped Tyson famously come to WWE for WrestleMania 14 in 1998, pretaped a video promo telling Kane, 29, to get the job done for him against Hammerstone, who had been champion for 21 months.
“I’m the man with the plan at Boymaye,” King said in the video. “Alex Kane, bring that MLW world heavyweight title back to me tonight. Boymaye, boymaye.”
It was the culmination of a relationship the company first started with King early last year that really took shape last April in Dallas the weekend of WrestleMania 38, Bauer said. 
He said the reception from King’s side was very positive as he believes there is a shared respect among combat sports promoters.
It was around that time last April that Bauer told Kane that King was on board. 
He worried he had spoken too soon to his future champ, as schedules and other circumstances delayed King from actually shooting something for MLW for about a year — having to reassure Kane “it’s gonna happen.” 
That didn’t seem to dampen the champ’s excitement.
“When Court told me it was Don King, I was ecstatic,” Kane told The Post. “Don King is a legend and a symbol of black excellence. I wanted to tell the world, but I had to keep it quiet.” 
Bauer sees connecting King and his legacy in combat sports as something that legitimized the Kane and Boymaye Fight Club to the audience from a creative perspective and also a cultural perspective.
He hopes doing so as Kane begins his title reign will maximize the awareness of it in the loudest way possible in the industry and makes Kane feel like “the certified franchise.” 
“Don is as legit as they come in the sports world to this day to this day,” Kane said. 
Bauer said moving forward all options are on the table for King’s involved with the promotion. King, who has greatly slowed down the number of fights he promotes, will not be a weekly presence, but still a reoccurring one. 
The hope is to get him and Kane together to shoot and collaborate on some things as MLW’s cable partner BeIN Sports is based out of Miami and King works out of South Florida as well.  
“The goal, of course, is to have him there [in person], but having his presence with pretapes with Alex [Kane] those kinds of things. We will always find a way to do it.”  
Kane said he hoped he and King “have good chemistry” and wouldn’t mind extending the relationship to working with other fighters he promotes. 
“I hope to make some real magic happen during this title reign,” Kane said. “It would be cool to have some crossover with the boxers he’s promoting. If I can pick his brain on promoting tips that would be cool, too.”    
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Sunday, Oct 29 2023 by BKFC Staff
Four fighters ranked in the Top 5 of their respective weight classes are back in action at BKFC 53 on Friday, LIVE on The BKFC App from the 2023 Olympia Weekend in Orlando, FL.
x David “Redneck” Mundell is the BKFC World Middleweight Champion and the No. 1 contender in the BKFC light-heavyweight division. He defends his BKFC World Middleweight Championship for the second time against Doug Coltrane (3-0, 2 KOs). The Oldsmar, FL fighter boasts a record of 7-1, with five of his wins coming by stoppage. He’s won five straight and finished his last three opponents, including former BKFC champ Francesco Ricchi at BKFC 34 and Mike Richman in his first title defense at BKFC 47.
x Doug “ColdRed” Coltrane is the No. 2 contender in the BKFC middleweight division heading into his World Championship showdown with Mundell. The fast-rising Smithfield, NC fighter is undefeated in his first three trips to the BKFC Squared Circle. He’s gunning for his third straight stoppage victory against Mundell. 
x Chancey “Superfly” Wilson is the No. 2 contender in the BKFC flyweight division. He takes on the debuting Dagoberto Aguero, a Dominican Republic boxing sensation with a pro gloved boxing record of 15-2 (10 KOs). The Wichita, KS product is 3-2 in the Squared Circle and coming off a victory over Tyler Randall, the No. 3 contender in the flyweight division.
x Sawyer “Diesel” Depee is the No. 5 contender in the BKFC cruiserweight division. He tries to improve to 4-2 in the Squared Circle with a second straight victory over Jonathan Miller (2-0, 2 KOs). All of the Lolo, MN fighter’s wins have come by first-round stoppage. His only two losses came against former BKFC World Championship challengers Ulysses Diaz and Quintin Henry. 
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What on earth has happened to our political culture?
Remember stories of Democrats and Republicans in Congress disagreeing on the floor of their respective chambers and then joining each other for dinner with their families? Remember when Joe Biden and John McCain loved each other?
As we say in the South, “them days are gone.” Nowadays, members are more likely to punch each other, or at least give it some thought. This month has been especially embarrassing in the “let’s rumble” department.
It began with a heated exchange between Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin and a Teamster official testifying before a Senate committee. The two men, both of a brawny, macho-man sort, apparently have a history of bad blood between them. What should have been a Q&A between Senator and witness degenerated into a “take-it-outside moment,” with Senator Mullin standing to leave his committee chair and head down toward the witness. That prompted the committee chair, 82-year-old Senator Bernie Sanders, to shout, “Sit down! You are a United States Senator. Act it!” Blessedly, Mullin did as he was told, but the mortifying moment lives forever on the internet.
But wait! There is even more bad blood!
A Tennessee Congressman who vowed to remove former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy from the Speaker’s chair accused McCarthy of elbowing him in his kidney while charging through the halls of Congress. McCarthy denied the accusation, but an NPR reporter who was interviewing the Congressman when McCarthy barreled down the hall later tweeted that McCarthy “shoved” the Congressman and that she had “NEVER seen this on Capitol Hill.”
And, there was a Congressional taunt, highly inappropriate but amusing nevertheless. A House committee chair, James Comer, got into a tense exchange with a committee member of the opposite political persuasion. Arguing over President Biden’s finances and the chair’s personal finances, Comer lost his temper, used the word “bull****” in his role as chair, and finished up by yelling at his blue plaid sportscoat-clad Congressional colleague, “You look like a Smurf!”
Of course, the ongoing saga of George Santos continues with shocking revelations from the House Ethics Committee that he used his campaign funds for trips, gambling, fancy shoes, Botox treatments and a membership to a porn website, among other expenses. The report is on top of all the lies the man has told and various swindles he is alleged to have devised.
Really? Is there no shame, even when well-earned?
The United States is now less than a year away from a Presidential election year and all manner of down-ballot contests, and I do not know a single soul who is looking forward to it.
As we consider the candidates we will support, no matter whether we are Democrats, Republicans, or unaffiliateds, please, please, please look for candidates who are reasonable and responsible adults, not hotheaded partisans of any stripe. Look for people who have a demonstrated record of supporting what is best for our community, state, and nation as opposed to a partisan or special interest agenda. Look for people you would feel comfortable visiting your own home in the presence of your own family.
And, yes, I agree that some of this outrageous behavior would be laughable if it were not so terrifying that these are the people in charge of our government.
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