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Boxing Lubavitcher Wins Fight at Barclay’s

Boxing champion and Lubavitcher Chosid Dimitry Salita won a marked victory over Brandon Hoskins at Brooklyn’s new Barclay’s center tonight. Dimitry made a tremendous kiddush Hashem by arriving to the fight on time, despite the fact that he was steadfast in his commitment to keep Shabbos to the very last minute.

From ESPN:

Dmitriy Salita of Flatbush shed some rust and scored a unanimous decision, by scores of 59-55, 60-54, 59-55, in a six-rounder at the Barclays Center on Saturday night.

The Orthodox Jewish boxer told NYFightBlog he didn’t have a problem making it from his hotel to the arena in time for his bout with Brandon Hoskins, despite adhering to Shabbat rules, but he wasn’t able to get warmed up properly, so he used the first couple rounds to get loose.

If the fight went to eight rounds, he thought maybe he’d have taken Hoskins out, he added. Salita, 30, told me he wanted a big fight, maybe a title scrap against Paul Malignaggi next. His record goes to 35-1.

From the Boxing Scene:

Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York – Dmitriy Salita got a tough scrap out of Missouri’s Brandon Hoskins before closing strong down the stretch to take a six round unanimous decision in junior middleweight action.

Scores were 60-54 and 59-55 twice.

The fight was sloppy at the start, which served to work well for the aggressive Hoskins, who refused to let Salita get on track consistently in the first two rounds. Both settled down a bit in the third, each cracking the other with the occasional hard shot that drew a reaction from the crowd, but neither man was able to pull ahead in the first half of the fight.

Salita’s experience showed in the second half though, and while he wasn’t spectacular, he was doing decent work, even having his best round of the fight in the fifth, as he tagged Hoskins repeatedly late in the frame and bloodied his face.

With the win, Salita improves to 35-1-1 with 18 KOs; Hoskins falls to 16-3-1 with 8 KOs.

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28 Comments

  • Turned Off By Barbarians

    Boxing should NOT be glorified by a Torah observant community, and the young man should be advised to seek a more civilized way of earning a living.

  • huemes

    burich hoshem! I have seen orthodox stance, I hope salita sees this and see how important he is to some of his demographic.

  • To #2

    You have no idea who Dmitriy is. He’s a Torah obesrvant Jew just like you. The only difference is that he makes a difference in this world and you don’t.

  • Shmueli

    Great job Dimitri, both spiritually (Kiddush Hashem by keeping Shabbos publicly), and physically (winning the fight)!!!!!
    Keep up the great work, and may you go from strength to strength, in all that you do!!!!!!!!!!!

  • To all of you

    It’s nothing about this guy. It’s about Crown Height.info publicizing a picture that is not tznius of an activity which is not according to chassidish tradition. This has a very negative message for our children. Every such post just confuses them more and more as to what is correct conduct or not. The article with a picture of him learning tanya would have been more appropriate.

    Hatzlacha to Salita and to all of you.

  • proud Jew

    Tremendous kiddush Hashem by keeping Shabbos! Not by coming on time despite the fact that he kept Shabbos. What’s up with the priorities man…

  • Sr

    to number 8,
    the problem is when kids have access to Internet any Internet at all! even filtered, that is the problem in your communi
    and by the way, having your brains beat to a mush every now and then, that is not the torah way. it’s actually against the Torah.

  • Sr

    The sad sad truth is,
    That a large part of chabad is drifting into modern orthodoxy in so many ways.
    This dimitri post is just another illustration of that fact.
    Note, I said post.

  • Give us better role models

    I find it impressive that Dimitri keeps Shabbos and so on while doing what he loves. However, boxing and beating up people for sport, no matter how much expertise is involved is not something we want our kids to aspire to….

  • What would the Rebbe say?

    Great, another kiddush Lubavitch. Like Matisyahu, R. shmuley Boteach, etc.

    What nachas for the Rebbe!

  • Enuff

    I wish he would retire from boxing already. He is married and a father, and he puts himself at risk of serious head injury. Is it worth it?

  • question???

    Giluy rosh no talis koton no ushmarten meod lenasfshoseichem etc! He may be a BT but he’s NOT a Lubavitcher sorry. His Kidush Hashem is questionable (mitzvo habo beaveiro).

  • XO

    I’m not sure how a sport with the ultimate goal of hitting your opponent in the head so hard that his brain ricochets inside the skull causing him to pass out can be considered kosher according to halacha. Then again, If you make sure that your opponent is a Amaleki I suppose you’re home free.

  • shmuel

    i crack up every time i read the comments on this website.
    keep it up fellow CHers.

  • Go Dimitri

    Who is telling your kids anything???!! He has every right to engage in this sport and make his parnoso the way he wants and yes he is an observant Jew. You raise your kids the way YOU want and leave this man alone. He is a kiddush Hashem. And BTW I did not know modern orthodoxy was some sort of curse. For even writing that it shows who YOU are.

  • For all that don-t like these posts....

    If you don’t like these types of posts – stick to shmais.com.
    This website posts these things all the time and there is a big crowed that enjoy reading about yiddin in the world…
    Don’t come to this site and complain about every 3rd article – don’t come to this site and you won’t have these issues

  • reuven stimler

    it is wrong to relate the word ‘lubavitch’ to the above picture.
    1 it is not true-a standard lubavitcher would not go around like that (Dmitriy Salita is a presently a miskarev to lubavitch)
    2 it is a discrase to the name of lubavitch (dont get me wrong i envy Dmitriy Salita for what he did and possibly a much higher level than me but however its like what the rebbe once said (the words are not exact) lubavitch doesnot comprise at all c”v on yiddishkeit but it has the broadness and paitient to let people come close at their own pace. this does not mean that Dmitriy Salita is on any lower level than a standard lubavitcher on the contary hes properbaly on a higher level and i think it is like a story of the baal shem tov that a simple farmer that made a chicken sound in neiloah accomplished much more than the baal shem tov’s holy students, but you cant bc of this that chassidim just make chicken sounds on yom kippur. (obvisously not comparing anyone to a farmer that could just make chicken sounds but i am bringing out an ides

  • GeBoxed

    It would have been a greater Kiddush Hashem if he had “Chabad” all over his shorts.

    Hum. Lucky he didn’t come in from the cold with tattoos. Ha! Imagine that – a half-way baal teshuva in ecstatic high, tattoos “Chabad” Lubavitch“ MHM” all over himself.

    Wow. Then he keeps Shabbos in public. (BTW, How do you do that? Make kiddush in a train station?)

    Question: Is this the guy who did a viscous kick-box (to a choshuver chosid) in 770, whilst shikker and foulmouthing geferlich?

    I hope not. Because then we would need to twist the word Kiddush Hashem even further.

    Go for it Dmitry. But not for us, thank you very much.

  • accurate comment! worth repost

    I think it’s a kidush hashem for sure!
    Think about it from the renbe’s look
    I’m sure the rebbe has only nachas from Dmitri’s amazing and very public jewish-pride and commitment!

    I know very few ppl who’ve grown this much in their avodas hashem

    We all need to learn and strive to make the same growth from our comfort zone towards hashem!

  • Even a boxer can keep Shabbat = gr8 msg!

    Dimitri is a living example that if you believe in H’ you can keep shabat! even in very changing circumstances

    this is the Nachas! & this is the Message!! (we must all learn from him & be humbled by)

  • moishe

    Agreed Dmitry is a wonderfull fello and a good chabadnik.

    I wish he’d change fields too..ouch those knocks hurt… but thats his parnoso and expertise. SOmething that few of you have any clue the meaning of.

    As for the dumb comments – its expected – whoever wrote otherwise about chilul lubavitch and what not – have their heads in the sand – do not have a job and likely disgruntled and underpaid with a divorce in site if they are even married.

    Why do I say that?

    Becuase it takes an ignoramous to post such negative comments about a fellow yid, and a fellow BT.
    nuff said.

  • Melech Bialo

    So much hate in these comments it’s terrible. The same people that are implying that THEY not him are the REAL chassidim are the ones ripping on him and everything about him. Seriously, re-check your ahavas yisroel. It’s sickening and it is literally making me upset to see jews bashing other yidden like this. C’mon, it’s not nice people.
    I’m not kidding, it breaks my heart to see such bitter jews talking like this.

  • Kal Vechomer

    make a kal ve chomer.
    If the Rebbe made such a big deal out of Sandy Koufax (not frum, played on Shabbos etc) for not playing on Yom kippur, how much ,more so a FRUM yid, who NEVER compromises an inch of halocha regardless of temptations of money, fame, pride etc.
    And for those who want to compare him to Matisyahu etc, Being Chabad didn’t make him big, he became Chabad despite being big.

  • kal Vechomer pt. 2

    oh I forgot to add, for all you groiser rabbonim who want to possul his parnossa and hashkofa…like any frum jew I am sure he has his rov whom he asks his shailos to.