sure, just not a successful one
don king did the thrilla in manilla with no money tho
he got one boxer to say hed fight the other boxer then he went to the other boxer and said yo, dude wants to fight you, then he went to an investor with the two boxers agreements, which ended up being the king of zaire, and the rest is history and now don king is a filthy rich old black man who refuses to cut his hair
so its possible