6/18/2019 BoxRec: Dmitriy Salita Boxing's Official Record Keeper sign up | login enter name or ID# boxer ▾ Dmitriy Salita - Promoter ID #051096 status active company Salita Promotions role boxer promoter residence Brooklyn, New York, USA birth place Odessa, Ukraine registered contact Boxers name w-l-d last 6 debut residence Nikolai Buzolin 7 3 1 2010-12-15 Tyumen, Russia Apti Davtaev 17 0 1 2013-03-30 Kurchaloi, Russia Shohjahon Ergashev 16 0 0 2015-12-23 Detroit, Michigan, USA Bakhtiyar Eyubov 14 1 1 2012-02-17 Houston, Texas, USA Jermaine Franklin 18 0 0 2015-04-04 Saginaw, Michigan, USA Elena Gradinar 9 1 0 2016-05-13 Saint Petersburg, Russia Christina Hammer 24 1 0 2009-09-12 Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany Jesse Angel Hernandez 12 3 0 2009-02-14 Fort Worth, Texas, USA Eric Hunter 21 4 0 2005-01-07 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Aslambek Idigov 16 0 0 2013-07-02 Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Izim Izbaki 1 0 0 2018-11-16 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Arnold Khegai 15 0 1 2015-10-28 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Jarrell Miller 23 0 1 2009-07-18 Brooklyn, New York, USA Jarico O'Quinn 12 0 1 2015-04-10 Detroit, Michigan, USA boxrec.com/en/promoter/51096 1/4 6/18/2019 BoxRec: Dmitriy Salita name w-l-d last 6 debut residence Samuel Peter 38 7 0 2001-02-06 Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Nikolai Potapov 20 1 1 2010-03-13 Brooklyn, New York, USA Umar Salamov 24 1 0 2012-12-15 Henderson, Nevada, USA Elena Saveleva 5 1 0 2017-06-23 Pushkino, Russia Claressa Shields 9 0 0 2016-11-19 Flint, Michigan, USA Vladimir Shishkin 8 0 0 2016-07-31 Serpukhov, Russia Vladimir Tikhonov 17 1 0 2008-10-21 Saint Petersburg, Russia Larry Ventus 9 13 1 2007-08-18 Detroit, Michigan, USA Otto Wallin 20 0 0 2013-06-15 Sundsvall, Sweden Alexey Zubov 17 2 0 2014-04-12 Detroit, Michigan, USA Events 36 events page 1 2 2019-08-17 Dort Federal Event Center Flint, Michigan, USA 2019-07-12 Emerald Queen Casino Tacoma, Washington, USA 2019-04-13 Boardwalk Hall Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA 2019-02-15 Kansas Star Arena Mulvane, Kansas, USA 2018-11-17 Kansas Star Arena Mulvane, Kansas, USA 2018-06-22 Masonic Temple Detroit, Michigan, USA 2018-04-28 Barclays Center Brooklyn, New York, USA 2018-01-12 Turning Stone Resort & Casino Verona, New York, USA 2017-11-17 Dort Federal Event Center Flint, Michigan, USA 2017-11-11 Nassau Coliseum Uniondale, New York, USA 2017-09-09 StubHub Center Carson, California, USA 2017-08-04 MGM Grand Detroit Detroit, Michigan, USA 2017-06-16 Masonic Temple Detroit, Michigan, USA boxrec.com/en/promoter/51096 2/4 6/18/2019 BoxRec: Dmitriy Salita 2017-03-10 MGM Grand Detroit Detroit, Michigan, USA 2017-01-22 Masonic Temple Detroit, Michigan, USA 2016-11-12 Masonic Temple Detroit, Michigan, USA 2016-08-19 Rhinos Stadium Rochester, New York, USA 2016-07-16 Masonic Temple Detroit, Michigan, USA 2016-05-14 Masonic Temple Detroit, Michigan, USA 2016-04-15 Turning Stone Resort & Casino Verona, New York, USA 2016-02-06 Masonic Temple Detroit, Michigan, USA 2016-01-22 Casino Del Sol Tucson, Arizona, USA 2015-10-29 Aviator Sports Complex Brooklyn, New York, USA 2015-08-25 MCU Park Brooklyn, New York, USA 2015-06-04 Paramount Theater Brooklyn, New York, USA 36 events page 1 2 boxrec.com/en/promoter/51096 3/4 6/18/2019 BoxRec: Dmitriy Salita ©BoxRec : data may be incomplete/inaccurate : 0.0384 seconds : Editors About BoxRec Contact Us Terms & Conditions Widgets BoxRec.com uses cookies to make the site simpler. Find out more about cookies EN CN DE ES FR HU PL RU boxrec.com/en/promoter/51096 4/4 6/18/2019 Dmitry Salita - Wikipedia Dmitry Salita Dmitry Salita (Russian: Дмитрий Салита; Ukrainian: Дмитро Саліта; born Dmitriy Salita April 4, 1982), born Dmitriy Aleksandrovich Lekhtman, is an American Дмитрий Салита professional boxer, world title challenger, and promoter. Born in Ukraine, he Дмитро Саліта grew up in New York City from the age of nine. He resides in and fights out of Brooklyn, New York. Salita is a practicing Orthodox Jew. He does not fight on the Sabbath or Jewish holidays and keeps kosher.[1] Contents Biography Salita (middle, with arm raised) in Early years 2010 Boxing career Statistics Amateur career Nickname(s) Star of David Pro career Weight(s) Light welterweight Jewish heritage Welterweight Movies Height 5 ft 9 in (175 cm) Endorsement deal Reach 69 in (175 cm) Promoter Nationality American See also References Born April 4, 1982 Odessa, Ukrainian External links SSR, Soviet Union Biography Stance Orthodox Boxing record Early years Total fights 38 Wins 35 Dmitriy Aleksandrovich Lekhtman was born in 1982 in Odessa, in what was then the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (today Ukraine). He was five years Wins by KO 18 old when he saw his first boxing match. "It was Mike Tyson, and I remember Losses 2 [2] dancing around my room that night imitating the moves", he recalled. Draws 1 Salita's family moved to the United States when he was nine years old, citing antisemitism in Ukraine, and settled in Flatbush, Brooklyn.[2] His father, Aleksandr Lekhtman, was an engineer; his mother, Lyudmila Salita, was an accountant. He has one brother, Mikhail.[3][4] His mother originally opposed her son's boxing, but eventually became an enthusiastic supporter. She died in January 1999, after a two-year battle with breast cancer. When she was hospitalized, Salita divided his time between James Madison High School, the Starrett gym, and Sloan Kettering Memorial Hospital. He said, "I'd spend the night sleeping in a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Salita 1/6 6/18/2019 Dmitry Salita - Wikipedia chair at the hospital and wake up to do my roadwork."[5] He became involved around this time with the Chabad movement. As a tribute to his mother, he uses her maiden name, Salita, as his professional name.[6] Salita said: Basically, we came to America because Jews were discriminated against. My parents thought that my brother and I wouldn't grow up with the opportunity to be the best that we could be. My brother, who is nine years older than I am, used to get into a lot of fights, because he was often called names. There were rumors of pogrom every now and then, and Jews would go away to the suburbs from the city. 'Pogrom' means that groups of people would break into homes and bash the house. I remember that my father bought a gun just in case something was to happen. It was very difficult to get top jobs or to go to top schools and still remain proud of your Judaism. I am very grateful to America for letting me pursue my goals, and have freedom of religion and speech. You don't normally appreciate it, but when you don't have it, you understand just how great it is to have it. Now that I am older, I understand it.[5][7] In New York, classmates picked on Salita in school. He said, "When I first started going to school, I had the clothes that I wore over in Russia. I used to get made fun of because of it, and the fact that I didn't speak English. I had to learn how to defend myself. I got involved in karate, and as time went on my brother brought me to a boxing club. That is how it all started. I got called into the principal's office. I got suspended a few times, but I got my respect. I started kicking some ass at school."[8] Salita was a business and Jewish studies major at Touro College.[9][10][11] In September 2009, Salita married an Israeli citizen, Alona Aharonov,[12][13] Alona is from the Lubavitch community.[14] In August 2013 as part of fundraising activities for the network of Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish schools Oholey Jinuj, during a gala dinner in Buenos Aires speaking with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Salita affirmed that at the end of his boxing career, he will migrate to Israel with his family.[15][16] Boxing career Salita started boxing at the age of 13 at the Starrett City Boxing Club, which is run by "My gym's like a league of nations. I seen every kind of kid come [7] through the doors, but I ain't never seen one like this Dmitriy. Kid Jimmy O'Pharrow. Among others, he looks Russian, prays Jewish, and fights Black. trained with Zab Judah. — Jimmy O'Pharrow[5] Salita said, "Jimmy runs an old school gym, a ghetto gym. My style isn't European. It isn't even American. It's a city style. It's Black. I don't know how else to say it. But some of us White boys got it like that".[5] The radio at Starrett was always tuned to HOT 97; Salita described it as "Blasting. A lot of Biggie. A lot of Tupac. I think that changed my style. That's what gave me some rhythm."[8] Amateur career Salita had an amateur record of 59–5. When he was 16, he represented New York in the Junior Olympics and won a bronze medal. "I thought, 'I'm ranked in America as a boxer.' That's when I really felt like an American", he said.[17] His last loss came when he was 17 in a split decision in the finals of the Golden Gloves tournament in 2000.[18] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Salita 2/6 6/18/2019 Dmitry Salita - Wikipedia He followed that up by becoming U.S.