Don’t Expect Any Refunds : Boxing: Furor over Tyson-McNeeley continues as the money starts to roll in.

In a perfect world, Don King and everyone at Showtime Entertainment Television who was associated with Saturday night’s Mike Tyson-Peter McNeeley travesty would spend the rest of the year issuing apologies and refunds to everyone who was fleeced into paying $40-$50 for the pay-per-view sham.

But to do that would imply that King possessed a sense of shame or propriety, and we all know that any connection between Don King and honesty is strictly coincidental.

According to preliminary figures released by Showtime Monday, the fight was purchased in 1 million homes around the country and will gross at least $80 million worldwide.

Final figures won’t be available for another two weeks, but the Tyson-McNeeley extravaganza likely will fall just behind 1991’s Evander Holyfield-George Foreman fight, bought in 1.4 million American homes, a pay-per-view record.

Guess P.T. Barnum wasn’t too far from wrong, eh?

The next big question is whether King can perpetrate the same fraud for Tyson’s next fight, scheduled for Nov. 4, against a stiff to be named.

TVKO, Time Warner’s pay-per-view arm, has booked the same date for a Holyfield-Riddick Bowe bout, which would be preferential to almost anything King could arrange.

Seth Abraham, Time Warner’s sports president, last week reaffirmed the company’s intention to hold fast to the November date.

But Tommy Morrison, he of the porcelain chin, likely would appease King’s desire to give Tyson a relatively nonthreatening opponent who would draw in the kind of morons who would buy something from King, America’s chief snake oil salesman, as well as force cable operators to choose between the two fights.

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The three-year deal takes effect Sept. 1 and covers the remainder of this season and the next two for DirecTV and Primestar subscribers, while Liberty viewers will be able to get the games immediately.

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