Boxing Promoter

Additional criminal charges have been filed against a Delaware County boxing promoter already accused of fixing fights, the Attorney General's office announced Wednesday. Last month Damon Richard Feldman, 40, of Broomall, was charged with rigging a number of celebrity matches and not having the required license for six events held between September 2008 and September 2009, most in Delaware County. The new bribery charge stems from a Sept. 2008 fight promoted by Feldman where he allegedly offered a bribe to a Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission inspector who was concerned about unsafe conditions, according to a press release.

Dan Duva is a lawyer and a boxing promoter, but this has not made him a bad person, so please say a prayer for him this morning when he is scheduled to undergo brain surgery. Say a prayer that the tumor near his skull is as easy to get to as they promise. Say a prayer it is benign. Say a prayer Duva soon will be home playing with his three kids, ages 5 through 12, and there's nothing seriously wrong, outside of business. The 44-year-old promoter checked in last night to Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in New York.

Samuel J. Margolis, 79, a boxing promoter who managed heavyweight Sonny Liston and other champions, died Friday at his home in Broomall. Born in Brooklyn, Mr. Margolis was 4 years old when his family moved to Chester. He dropped out of high school during the Great Depression and began working in local taverns. During the 1940s and '50s, Mr. Margolis - Sam to his friends - became an important figure on Philadelphia's boxing scene. Among those he managed were Ike Williams of Trenton, who held the lightweight title in the late 1940s, and Johnnie Saxton of Brooklyn, the 1954 welterweight champion.

ROFESSIONAL BOXING is a sport in which it's possible to figuratively lose one's shirt, so one of the more flamboyant fight figures of the 1970s and '80s flaunted fate by simply not wearing one. You can debate whether Philadelphia native Ronald "Butch" Lewis, who was 65 when he died of a massive heart attack Saturday morning at his Delaware home, is better known as the promoter of former world champions Leon and Michael Spinks or as the guy who frequently...

SATURDAY's D-list celebrity bout between Lenny Dykstra and Jose Canseco (and Octomom vs. Amy Fisher, Tareq "Real Housewives of D.C. " Salahi vs. Kato Kaelin, and more) isn't just a comeback for the former MLB stars, porn stars, dubiously famous reality-TV personalities, loveable criminals and such. It's also a comeback for the event's Broomall-born promoter, Damon Feldman. Feldman, 42, is the former local middleweight boxer once known as "The Jewish Bomber. " At age 13, his second-round knockout earned him the Philadelphia Junior Olympic Boxing title and a tout in Sports Illustrated . At 19, he went pro, going 9-0, with four knockouts.

Authorities surrounded the Broomall home of beleaguered celebrity-boxing promoter Damon Feldman yesterday after he sent out an e-mail suggesting that he would commit suicide. Police say the situation was resolved quickly, but troubles for Feldman, who is charged with fixing fights, are ongoing. He faces a preliminary hearing May 26. The message was sent to an unknown number of people shortly after 1 p.m., implying that his accusers had destroyed his career and life. Authorities were notified and after about an hour, Feldman was taken into custody, although it was unclear whether he was hospitalized.

A boxing promoter was awarded about $200,000 after a state commission found that the owner of a ballroom refused to rent to him because he is black. Boston promoter Douglas Pendarvis received $125,000 plus interest in the ruling by the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. Edward LeClair owned and operated the Roseland Ballroom in Taunton, Mass. The ruling came more than four years after he was accused of telling an employee he would not rent to blacks and raised Pendarvis' rental rates from $500 to $7,500 per event.

In the hands of some people, a microphone is an Uzi. With the verbal gunfire ricocheting from victim to victim, these individuals make a terrorist attack look like a tea party. Can you say Don King? Yet the promoter was strangely subdued last week in Las Vegas, and why not? King, who survived a tax evasion case in the 1980s, is under scrutiny by the Congress, the FBI and the IRS for allegations that he misused the money of former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, now serving time for rape in Plainfield, Ind. "I can't talk about the investigations because, seemingly, Don King is the only one being investigated," the promoter said.

Pennsylvania's attorney general believes a celebrity boxing match - like the one coming up between a porn star and a former tabloid reporter, to be refereed by a tattooed model - should be on the up and up. On Friday, state prosecutors announced they had charged Delaware County boxing promoter Damon R. Feldman, 40, of Broomall, with fixing a number of celebrity matches and not having the required license for the events. The investigation focuses on six events between September 2008 and September 2009, most in Delaware County.

When Bob Arum, a nice young man from Brooklyn, left a $200,000-a-year job with a prestigious New York law firm about 25 years ago to promote boxing, his family almost said kaddish for him. That's a prayer Jewish families say for their dead. Arum had been student president at New York University, a cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, chief assistant U.S. attorney, an associate of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and a partner in the firm of the famous Louis Nizer. He was still in his 30s. Never had such a straight arrow with such impeccable credentials cast his lot with boxing, a sport with a long history of corruption and swarming then with such notorious mob figures as Blinky Palermo and Frankie Carbo.

SATURDAY's D-list celebrity bout between Lenny Dykstra and Jose Canseco (and Octomom vs. Amy Fisher, Tareq "Real Housewives of D.C. " Salahi vs. Kato Kaelin, and more) isn't just a comeback for the former MLB stars, porn stars, dubiously famous reality-TV personalities, loveable criminals and such. It's also a comeback for the event's Broomall-born promoter, Damon Feldman. Feldman, 42, is the former local middleweight boxer once known as "The Jewish Bomber. " At age 13, his second-round knockout earned him the Philadelphia Junior Olympic Boxing title and a tout in Sports Illustrated . At 19, he went pro, going 9-0, with four knockouts.

WILMINGTON - Butch Lewis promoted his first fight in the fourth grade, his sister Anita recalled. Lewis had convinced one of his friends to fight another kid in the school yard. It was in his DNA. Talented people gravitated to him. Then he made them stick. So it comes as no surprise that the little fourth grader became one of the greatest boxing promoters, having worked for more than 30 years with the likes of Joe Frazier, Muhammad Ali and Michael and Leon Spinks. At the celebration of Lewis' life on Monday afternoon, there was a parade of people who painted a picture of this unique man. More than 1,000 friends and family members attended the service after learning that Lewis died of natural causes on July 23 at the age of 65. They came to laugh at these stories.

ROFESSIONAL BOXING is a sport in which it's possible to figuratively lose one's shirt, so one of the more flamboyant fight figures of the 1970s and '80s flaunted fate by simply not wearing one. You can debate whether Philadelphia native Ronald "Butch" Lewis, who was 65 when he died of a massive heart attack Saturday morning at his Delaware home, is better known as the promoter of former world champions Leon and Michael Spinks or as the guy who frequently...

Who took Jose's drug tests? A boxing promoter has filed a lawsuit against Jose Canseco for breach of contract after the former Junior Circuit slugger instead sent his twin brother. Damon Feldman , of Broomall, said he filed a complaint Friday after Canseco backed out and made twin brother Ozzie pass himself off for the scheduled March 26 bout in Florida. Canseco drew with Danny Bonaduce and was KO'd in the first by former Eagles return man Vai Sikahema in past fights.

A Delaware County judge yesterday ordered Damon Feldman, promoter for the Celebrity Boxing Federation, held for trial on six charges of promoting fights without a license and rigging bouts. The state Attorney General's Office yesterday added five new felony charges, including bribery, theft and fraud. The office alleges that Feldman tried to pay off a State Athletic Commission official, that he didn't deliver on a promise to a former co-promoter of 40 percent of profits from a Danny Bonaduce fight and that he marketed a fight as benefiting the families of slain police officers without their knowledge.

A Delaware County promoter already charged with rigging boxing bouts between low-wattage celebrities was charged Wednesday with bribery and theft related to those events. Damon Feldman, 40, of Broomall, was charged by the state Attorney General's Office with two counts of offering a bribe to an inspector from the Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission who had raised safety concerns about a 2008 match. Feldman also was charged with three counts of theft for making "bogus" claims that proceeds from his events would benefit slain police officers and soldiers from the Philadelphia area.

Additional criminal charges have been filed against a Delaware County boxing promoter already accused of fixing fights, the Attorney General's office announced Wednesday. Last month Damon Richard Feldman, 40, of Broomall, was charged with rigging a number of celebrity matches and not having the required license for six events held between September 2008 and September 2009, most in Delaware County. The new bribery charge stems from a Sept. 2008 fight promoted by Feldman where he allegedly offered a bribe to a Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission inspector who was concerned about unsafe conditions, according to a press release.

Authorities surrounded the Broomall home of beleaguered celebrity-boxing promoter Damon Feldman yesterday after he sent out an e-mail suggesting that he would commit suicide. Police say the situation was resolved quickly, but troubles for Feldman, who is charged with fixing fights, are ongoing. He faces a preliminary hearing May 26. The message was sent to an unknown number of people shortly after 1 p.m., implying that his accusers had destroyed his career and life. Authorities were notified and after about an hour, Feldman was taken into custody, although it was unclear whether he was hospitalized.

Pennsylvania's attorney general believes a celebrity boxing match - like the one coming up between a porn star and a former tabloid reporter, to be refereed by a tattooed model - should be on the up and up. On Friday, state prosecutors announced they had charged Delaware County boxing promoter Damon R. Feldman, 40, of Broomall, with fixing a number of celebrity matches and not having the required license for the events. The investigation focuses on six events between September 2008 and September 2009, most in Delaware County.

SO HERE WE are again, Bernard Hopkins with a fight, a theme, a new variation to an old story he's told for more than 21 years, through three decades of boxing. Bernard Hopkins turned pro in October 1988, about the time Kirk Gibson was hitting that historic home run against Dennis Eckersley, about the same time lispy little Mike Tyson was destroying Michael Spinks in 91 seconds. He had a story to tell then, too, about a troubled teen smartening up while incarcerated for robbery.