Dash DiBella Promotions

[Truth]

In the entrepreneurial field, Dash plans to start a fighting promotion company called Dash DiBella Promotions.

Dash joined with former HBO executive and boxing promoter Lou DiBella, who he met on a plane while returning from a Shane Mosley fight, to form the new promotion company.

Expressing his passion for the sport, Dash said he has already enlisted boxers Gary Starks, Curtis Stephens Andre Alberta and others.

"They all got 10-0 records, they all like to knock ni**as the f**k out," Dash continued. "I'm just glad to be this close to something I love."

"It seems like everybody has something to say about everybody in the boxing world, but I hear the least about him," Dash said of Dibella, who spent 11 years with HBO and brought the premium channel some of the most memorable boxing matches in recent history. "I just want to come in this game and make a difference and have a lot of fun while I'm here. I just like to empower people."
-allhiphop.com

[Truth]

"Dash and DiBella Hook Up!
By Kirk Lang

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Boxing promoter Lou DiBella and music and entertainment mogul Damon Dash, who co-founded Roc-A-Fella Records along with Hip-Hop giant Jay-Z, are teaming up to form Dash/DiBella Promotions. Dash/DiBella Promotions will promote three young boxers, Andre Berto, Jaidon Codrington and Curtis Stevens. The partnership is a coming together of two savvy businessmen to create a company that can be twice as powerful than if Dash had started his own promotional company and DiBella remained solo. DiBella brings all of his experience as a former HBO executive, a lawyer and a promoter to the table, while Dash is proven as an all-around mogul. He has been involved not only in the music industry, but also the highly successful Roc-A-Wear clothing line, a film company, a sports management company and a non-profit community outreach program called Team Roc. In addition, Dash and Jay-Z purchased the imported Scottish liquor brand, Armadale Vodka.


Dash can often be seen partying it up in Hip-Hop videos, with a drink in hand or a scantily clad female, but when it comes to making money, Dash doesn't play around. The Roc-A-Fella empire has grown as big as it has largely because of Dash?s round-the clock- worth ethic. To most, Dash may be a new face on the boxing scene, but this reporter first remembers seeing Dash at a boxing match when Brooklynite Zab Judah knocked out Jan Bergman for the vacant IBF junior welterweight title in four rounds at Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, CT in February 2000. Judah has advertised the Roc-A-Fella logo on his boxing
trunks during fights and has also appeared several Jay-Z music videos.


Dash once said in a Hip-Hop magazine that one of his prized possessions is a pair of personalized autographed boxing gloves that Muhammad Ali gave to him. DiBella's credentials in boxing are well-known. At HBO, he was behind the creation of the successful 'Boxing After Dark' series and years later, made a
gutsy move when he left HBO, and his safe executivenposition, to enter the risky world of boxing promotion. He signed numerous fighters out of the 2000 Olympics and has led Jermain Taylor to the top of the middleweight division.

A bout between Taylor and 160-pound king Bernard Hopkins is very close to becoming reality. DiBella also negotiated for Hopkins prior to Hopkins entering Don King?s middleweight
tournament, which led to Hopkins getting a then-career high purse against Felix Trinidad, and stopping 'Tito' to becoming the undisputed middleweight champion.


Unfortunately for DiBella, Hopkins severed his relationship with DiBella, and also his longtime trainer, shortly after the Trinidad fight. DiBella is not crying over losing Hopkins. With Taylor
set to take over the middleweight division, either by beating Hopkins or Hopkins retiring before turning 41, as he has promised to loved ones, a stable of talented boxers and Dash by his side, DiBella is poised to make as big a mark in boxing promotion as he did as an executive HBO. For a number of years, DiBella, while a vice-president of programming for HBO Sports, headed boxing magazines lists of the sports Most Powerful People."

-**********.net

[spinksjinx]

Here comes that hip-hop theme in boxing everybody likes to hate on....*Sighs*

Dibella is such a twat.

[scap]

Lou Dibella has done alright so far with his promotional company but he has leveled off and even dipped a bit in the last year or two.

Golden Boy makes more moves as a promotional company then an NFL team during free agency...he's either picking up a trainer, fighter, executive...etc-there the promotional co that is on the move and probably unstoppable.

Rap and Boxing...I was one of the lone people who actually enjoyed KO NAtion on HBO, and I hate rap...first off the fights were great! They showed the likes of Acelino Freitas, Floyd Mayweather etc...so it was a step above sho box, I even had laughs at Ed Lover...but ultimately they should have went more professional, I wish it was still around.

I like Dibella, I hope him, his rapper and his slew of 10-0 fighters work out.

[spinksjinx]

Lou Dibella has done alright so far with his promotional company but he has leveled off and even dipped a bit in the last year or two.

Golden Boy makes more moves as a promotional company then an NFL team during free agency...he's either picking up a trainer, fighter, executive...etc-there the promotional co that is on the move and probably unstoppable.

Rap and Boxing...I was one of the lone people who actually enjoyed KO NAtion on HBO, and I hate rap...first off the fights were great! They showed the likes of Acelino Freitas, Floyd Mayweather etc...so it was a step above sho box, I even had laughs at Ed Lover...but ultimately they should have went more professional, I wish it was still around.

I like Dibella, I hope him, his rapper and his slew of 10-0 fighters work out.

You are cool with the fact that they want to deliver boxers with rapping contracts and put them in videos?

Lou needs a personality, one minute he is down with the black the next minute he is at a rave dancing with paul malignaggi and trying to promote a rock group. I realize thats his business and each of his clients is diverse but god damn man.

[Eyeh8you]

Man who cares if he wants to bring rap into boxing. Those shines already come out rappin or have some fat PR rappin 4 dem, or Like spinks trying to dance (looking more like some tribal war dance thing). It won't make much of a difference, it'll all still be ridiculous and funny to laugh at!

[theironone]

'shines' thats a racist term isn't it

[Eyeh8you]

Nah not realy, it's what they are called in Chicago where I grew up. Every body uses it da whites da mexicans da asian, well except the shines of course! But I wouldnt say it's rascist though. But any ******* *** would probably say so!

[theironone]

so its not like saying ni##a, and before anyone thinks it i'm not taking the piss at all, i thought i read in another post it was a racist term

[Eyeh8you]

Hell no. My friends and I growing up hardly ever used that term unless of course like 5 of them mugged someone we knew. But that aside I never use that term. Pll on this forum are just a bunch of sensitive *******. Man I used to have this avatar of a figure that was Mr.Cooper and this shine (McDLT i think her?/his name is) started to complain cause it was a black figurine. I eventually got this knew one cause I tired of the old one!