As a minority-owned pub in Concord, our clients were not even open or present at the alleged time that their television set was supposedly broadcasting the fight.

The best defense against Don King is a good offense.

We are now exposing the way that King and his attorneys are doing business, which consists of "hiring private investigators on the night of the pay-per-view fights to canvass bay area bars in search of scofflaws. King’s attorneys typically provide the private investigators with boiler plate affidavits to fill out once they visit the bar which allegedly is stealing a pay-per-view signal. The investigator need only fill in the time and date of the visit to the bar with a brief description of the bar’s interior and what is being shown on the various television sets. What is more disturbing is that the investigators are apparently paid bounties for their "discoveries of the unauthorized showings of a fight." Accordingly, they are motivated to make false accusations or to err on the side of making a false accusation.

Clearly, King’s techniques, which have purportedly included the hiring of firemen to go around and come up with questionable affidavits, are below the belt.

Our case is headed for trial and we predict a first-round knockout.