By Dan Horn
The Cincinnati Enquirer

Former boxing great Aaron Pryor sued the son of boxing promoter Don King on Friday, claiming he was cheated out of $7,500 owed to him for training another prizefighter.

Mr. Pryor, a former junior welterweight world champion, accused Carl King of failing to pay him for training Cincinnati boxer Larry Donald for several weeks in October and November.

Mr. Pryor's lawsuit, filed in Hamilton County Municipal Court, claims that he was supposed to be paid $10,000 to train Mr. Donald for a fight in Germany last month.

Mr. Pryor says he was paid about $2,500 before the fight, but the payments stopped after Mr. Donald lost to Vitali Klitschko.

"He's a member of the working class," said Mr. Pryor's lawyer, Robert Newman. "He did the work and he didn't get paid."

Neither Mr. King nor Mr. Donald, who also was named as a defendant, could be reached for comment Friday.

When he was at the height of his fame in the early 1980s, Mr. Pryor had amassed prize money totaling more than $5 million.

He lost all of it, however, after drug addiction and injuries ruined his career.

Since then Mr. Pryor, now 46, has made a modest living as a boxing trainer.

"According to his lawsuit, Mr. Pryor trained Mr. Donald at Don King's training camp in Orwell, Ohio, and later flew to Germany to promote the fight and to work Mr. Donald's corner during the fight.

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