Lou DiBella Biography
Lou DiBella is an American boxing promoter, television and film producer, has been a long time supporter of women’s boxing. Through his famous promotion of Broadway Boxing shows in and around New York City, the president of DiBella Entertainment promoted such fighters as Sonya Lamonakis, Keisha “Fire” McCleod, Jessica Camera, Hanna Gabriels, Cherneka Johnson, Alicia Napoleon, Shelly Vincent, Raquel Miller, Tiara Brown, Christina Linardatou, Heather Hardy, and Amanda Serrano, and was instrumental in bringing female boxers to Brooklyn Barclay’s Center on PBC fight cards.
Having worked for HBO as the Vice President of Programming for 11 years, DiBella has used his deep knowledge of the promotional aspects of the sport to push for parity for women’s boxing.
DiBella is a graduate of Regis High School located in New York City, and then he continued his education at Tufts University before pursuing a Juris Doctor degree at Harvard Law School.
DiBella also promotes male boxers, Regis Prograis, Tevin Farmer, Sergiy Derevyanchenko, Ivan Baranchyk, Richard Commey, George Kambosos Jr., as well as prospects Oleksandr Teslenko and US Olympian Charles Conwell, among others, and more.
Past boxers represented by DiBella Entertainment include former WBC Middleweight champion Sergio Martínez, former middleweight world champions Jermain Taylor and Bernard Hopkins, former junior welterweight titlist Paulie Malignaggi, former WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto and “Jo Jo” Dan.
DiBella expanded his boxing empire producing television content and films. In 2007, he produced the documentary Magic Man, which depicted the life of Paulie Malignaggi and his rise in the world of boxing. The documentary had its television premiere on Showtime and was later aired in the United Kingdom leading up to the Malignaggi vs. Lovemore Ndou fight, where Malignaggi retained his title.
In 2008, DiBella added the credit of executive producer to his list of accomplishments with the 2009 film Love Ranch starring Helen Mirren and Joe Pesci.
DiBella was also the associate producer on the film The Fighter, which was released in 2010 and based on the life of former DBE fighter “Irish” Micky Ward, starring Mark Wahlberg as Ward and Christian Bale as his trainer and brother Dickie Ecklund. The film won two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress.
DiBella then established the television and film production company BK Blu. In its first year, the company premiered the film “TAPIA” at the LA Film Festival then later, premiered the documentary “MARAVILLA” at the Tribeca Film Festival, premiered the documentary “HARDY” at the DOC NYC Film Festival, and acquired the rights to a number of television and film projects currently in development. The “TAPIA” documentary, which was co-executive produced by DiBella and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, premiered on HBO in December 2014. [credited info: Wiki]
Lou DiBella has been inducted into the International Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame for 2024, and will be honored and celebrated on October 6-7, 2023, at the Orleans Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. To get tickets, go to http://www.iwbhf.com/tickets.htm