For Brooklyn born and Sea Cliff, Long Island resident Lou DiBella, the Sweet Science has brought him full circle.
From VP of HBO Sports when their boxing brand was television’s best, to becoming a major boxing promoter, to a TV and film producer, to managing owner of two minor league baseball teams, the 62-year-old DiBella was inducted in the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, NY the weekend of June 9-12.
Although he’s going into the Hall, DiBella is still active in the boxing scene. His unified lightweight champ George Kambosos Jr. lost a defense of his three titles on June 5 in Melbourne, Australia against Devin Haney, the WBC champ, on ESPN (DiBella says Kambosos Jr. will exercise a rematch clause). Then DiBella promoted a Saturday night fight card at the Turning Stone Casino for Showtime during Hall of Fame weekend.
