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Olympic gold comes with a burden in David King's boxing story

"The Curse of Gold" revisits Roy Jones Jr. and Park Si-hun's controversial Seoul final.

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The Curse of GoldThe Curse of Gold

"The Curse of Gold" is about a medal that proved anything but a straightforward reward. David King's only new upload revisits Roy Jones Jr.'s controversial light middleweight final loss to Park Si-hun at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, bringing a familiar sporting injustice back into focus.

The video has approached a million views and is currently drawing the most daily views of any upload on King's channel. In the comments, viewers discuss both boxers, with several focusing on the burden the result placed on Park. Others single out the story's closing turn, or look beyond Seoul to Jones's subsequent boxing career.

Sport's odd relationship with fairness runs through the other stories gathering momentum. "Not Fair" recounts Keegan Brewer's fake fair catch touchdown for North Texas against Arkansas in 2018. "Javelin Don't Lie" follows Neeraj Chopra and Kishore Jena's gold-and-silver finish for India at the 2023 Asian Games, with disputed measurements part of King's account. The football deception remains the busier of those two uploads today, though the javelin story has accumulated more than 12 million views.

Across the channel, daily viewing is running below its usual pace, while the subscriber count was unchanged over the week. King nevertheless added roughly as many weekly views as Tifo Football by The Athletic: different approaches to sports storytelling, with King's latest contribution looking back at what an Olympic result meant for the people inside it.

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What viewers say

  • Got scared there for a second at the end😮‍💨
  • It’s awesome how Park lifted Jones up at the end to show that Jones was higher than him.
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  • And Roy Jones Jr became a all time boxing great and one of the goats of the sport

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The facts
Channel
David King
Subscribers
2,530,000
Channel views, last 7 days
6,636,083
Videos published this week
1
Video published
October 13, 2026
Video views so far
972,254
Views on its first day
448,239

The numbers

Here is how David King's channel and its sporting stories performed over the week.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels
talkSPORT
18,022,136
The Overlap
9,530,938
David King
6,636,083
DAZN Football
3,381,892
AFTV
2,426,863
subscribers
2,530,000
no significant change in the last 7 days
total views
2,678,869,934
views per day
861,193
typical day: 1,124,002
first-day views of each video posted this week
subscribers: this channel and similar channels
DAZN Football
2,930,000
David King
2,530,000
talkSPORT
1,970,000
AFTV
1,840,000
The Overlap
1,800,000
As of October 18, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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