Comments Thread For: Dmitriy Salita Reflects on The Past, Looks To The Future

[TBear]

I am enjoying his Brooklyn Brawl series on Comcast. Promoting some good fights!

[PittyPat]

I was there live in Newcastle when Khan flattened his ass in 1 minute.

[whatismyname]

[enter name here] is a fake ass bum. Could use that on anyone. What ^^ is Your record as a pro?

[paulf]

How does this guy not realize he's a fake-ass bum yet? Is Seinfeld bankrolling him or some ****?

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

By Mitch Abramson - For someone who doesn’t fight much anymore, Dmitriy Salita is seemingly everywhere.
He’s at club shows and big shows, in the community hand-grabbing with fans.

He’s on the phone, calling writers, plugging his latest endeavor, talking it up as if it's the next big pay-per-view show. He’s the busiest non-fighter in the business at the moment.

But there’s a method to his madness.

With one foot in retirement and the other in the promotions racket, Salita is in the neat position of being able to sit back and cherry-pick offers to get back in the ring- while he tends to his other, main trade, which is running shows.

Yes, Salita the ex-boxer who claims he’s still active- who was known for having an eye on the bottom line while he was fighting, for carefully scripting his career, is now one of the more active promoters in the New York area, running shows in Brooklyn and building a stable of talented yet mostly anonymous boxers.

And perhaps most interestingly, he now has a hand in guiding the careers of others, while drawing on his own experiences.

So it didn’t come as a surprise when Salita revealed he briefly entertained the idea of accepting an offer to face former titlist Andre Berto in September, an offer the 32-year-old resident of Brooklyn said he declined because it didn’t make much sense, he says, once again, displaying an ability to step back and make a decision that he believes will benefit him in the long term. [Click Here To Read More]