Promoter Don King, who says he has a legal and binding contract with heavyweight Michael Hunter, has issued a cease and desist order to SELA and TKO Group Holdings, Inc. King won a WBA purse bid to promote the WBA regular heavyweight championship fight between Hunter, and WBA regular champion Kubrat “The Cobra” Pulev and then was victorious in two consecutive appeals to the WBA by Pulev's promoter, Epic Sports and Entertainment. 

 

King sent the cease and desist after learning of a fight scheduled for Sept. 11th between Hunter and Jarrell Miller. “They continue to disobey the WBA and it’s clear directive on the Pulev-Hunter championship fight,” said King.  “Hunter is under contract to Don King Productions and he’ll be fighting for a [secondary] world championship.”