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Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 4012
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 01:37 am: | 
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DON KING IN RING WITH POPE
March 14, 2007 -- We hope someone is videotaping when high-haired boxing promoter Don King has an audience with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican on March 21.
King, who wore a floor-length white mink coat to President Ronald Reagan's first inauguration, is a larger-than-life character who started out in Cleveland, Ohio, as a numbers racketeer who was accused of killing two men. The first incident was deemed self-defense, but the second was manslaughter - which got King four years in prison.
"I am standing in the need of prayer," King told Page Six yesterday from Paris. "I'm going to ask the pontiff to pray for all of us. He has a direct line to the man who sits high, looks low and keeps his eye on the sparrow." That "man" would be Jesus, King informed us.
While King is a Baptist, not a Roman Catholic, the ecumenical entrepreneur doesn't believe there should be any quibbling between denominations. "The thing is, we're all going before the man on high on Judgment Day."
Quoting Isaiah, King said, "Let justice roll down like water, and righteousness flow like a mighty stream."
The papal meeting came about through Luca Messi, a super-middleweight King put in a big fight in Chicago two years ago. Unfortunately, Messi lost. "I'm going to try and help him again," King vowed. But Messi has a brother who is a priest and who agreed to set up an audience with the pope.
King is in Paris promoting Saturday's sold-out rematch of last year's dramatic slugfest at Madison Square Garden between O'Neil Bell and Jean-Marc Mormeck. Then, King will be honored at a festival in Bergamo, Italy, the Messi brothers' hometown, before his pilgrimage to Rome.
King, who often wears crazy clothes and waves Old Glory, owns three large, diamond-encrusted crucifixes - "for the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost." But asked what he'll wear to his meeting with Benedict XVI, King humbly replied, "I'll see what the protocol is."
The bombastic orator seems prepared to play second fiddle to His Holiness and pay every respect to the Vicar of Christ. "I am going to ask the pontiff for world peace. I will be prepared to kiss his ring."
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03142007/gossip/pagesix/pagesix.htm
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Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 3900
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 10:28 am: |
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He ain't even getting in the front door. |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 8885
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 10:50 am: |
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Chris,
Why not? It's just one Big pimp trynah kick some ho-talk with an even BIGGER one. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 7834
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 11:26 am: |
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After King kisses the Pope's ring, is the Pope going to kiss any of the rings I'm sure King will be wearing? Don's hairstyle even resembles the Pope's hat. Forgive him, father, for he knoweth not what he doeth. |
Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 4044
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 11:53 pm: |
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LOLOL @ Cynique. Don King's head does look like the pope hat!!!
 
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Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 7869
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 16, 2007 - 10:41 pm: |
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Da Pope: Oy Vey! Who is this dark angel seeking a ringside seat in my audience?
Da King: Hold up, your holiness, I just wanna confess my sins. I was raped by a priest and I let him slide. Only in America!
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Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 4123
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 - 09:47 pm: |
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Don King in Front Row for Pope
By DANIELA PETROFF
Wednesday, March 21, 2007; 11:28 AM
VATICAN CITY -- Don King got a front row seat at Pope Benedict XVI's general audience Wednesday. The usually flamboyant boxing promoter, wearing a blue suit with his preferred high hair style primly flattened for the papal event, gave the pope a green-and-gold boxing belt and a handwritten letter asking for prayers for people ranging from President Bush to the world's sick and aged.
"I was thrilled to be there. It was a deep spiritual experience," King told The Associated Press after the two-hour open-air audience in St. Peter's Square.
In Rome to discuss possible boxing matches in Italy, King had expressed his wish to meet with the pope.
"Faith is the thing that carries us through," the 75-year-old King said as he walked through St. Peter's Square, waving Italian and Vatican flags and signing autographs.
Don King Productions spokesman Alan Hopper said the Vatican visit was arranged through a boxer King represents _ Italian super welterweight champion Luca Messi, whose brother Alessandro is a Catholic priest.
King was seated in the front row of a special section on the steps of St. Peter's Basilica. He was able to hand the pope the gift and the letter as Benedict drove slowly by in an open jeep at the end of the audience.
King, who spent four years in prison for manslaughter, had hoped for a personal meeting with Benedict. Very few nonchurch people, however, receive private time with the pope during his Wednesday audiences.
Before arriving in Rome, King toured Messi's hometown, Bergamo. During the visit to the northern Italian city, King began a fundraising campaign to restore the city's church of St. Mary Major, which includes frescoed paintings on the walls of a pre-existing church buried underneath.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/21/AR2007032100872. html
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