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 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😮💨
@IoaS1987See it on YouTubeIt’s awesome how Park lifted Jones up at the end to show that Jones was higher than him.
@stargazingboomsSee it on YouTubeAnd Roy Jones Jr became a all time boxing great and one of the goats of the sport
@jvgb18See it on YouTube
Public comments from the video's page on YouTube
The videos drawing views on David King right now
- 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.
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Which team was North Texas playing during Keegan Brewer's fake fair catch touchdown?
King's "Not Fair" recounts Brewer's trick-play touchdown against Arkansas in 2018.




