Friday, December 20, 2002
Pryor claims payments stopped after loss by Donald
Associated Press
CINCINNATI -- Former junior welterweight champion Aaron Pryor is suing the son of boxing promoter Don King, claiming he was not paid $7,500 owed to him for training another fighter.
The lawsuit, filed Friday in Hamilton County Municipal Court, claims that Pryor was supposed to be paid $10,000 to train Cincinnati boxer Larry Donald for a fight in Germany last month.
Pryor contends that he was paid about $2,500 before the fight, but the payments stopped after Donald lost to Vitali Klitschko.
"He did the work and he didn't get paid,'' said Pryor's lawyer, Robert Newman.
Carl King and Donald, who also was named as a defendant, could not be reached for comment Friday.
Pryor, 46, won more than $5 million in prize money during the early 1980s but lost everything after drug addiction and injuries ended his career. He now makes a modest living as a trainer.
