I’m not alone in hoping to see a better Jewish athlete than Shawn Green in my lifetime, but when the talented Orthodox Jewish boxer from Brooklyn Dmitriy Salita destroyed Fabian Luque (his over-matched, love-handled challenger from Tijuana) on Thursday night, my heart didn’t exactly beat to the strains of Hatikvah.
Salita easily knocked Luque down in the first and fourth rounds, and when the ref stopped the fight in the fifth, Salita’s beard-and-yarmulke fanbase exploded, waving Israeli flags and pumping their pasty fists in the air. Next to me, a couple of cigar-chewing types argued whether anyone with Salita’s undefeated record (28-0-1) should continue arranging fights with such tin cans: "Why not? He packs the house every time. What do you expect? It’s a business."
Sure, but what a shame if the kid who entered the boxing world as a reincarnation of the atypical Tough Jew, plays out his career more like—say—your typical shrewd businessman.
Awww see, now I gotta come to this kids defense. I do it as a boxer, not a Jew.
This is what invariably happens when you earn a record such as his. People everywhere start pointing to a couple fights saying “that guy he fought was a bum”, he’s undefea
Hesed, I definitely think Salita’s a good fighter– let’s not read between the lines. Even in dispatching someone like Luque (21-7-4, not undefeated, as you say), he was in great form, but that kind of fight doesn’t excite me– as a boxing fan or a Jew.
There are two other major Jewish prospects in boxing right now, Yuri Foreman and Roman Greenberg
Great call on linking the Barney Ross page. I was expecting Benny Leonard or Max Baer, but you picked the Chicago boy. Very nice.
Max Baer wasn’t a Jew, just pretended to be one because it was such a popular sport among Jews.
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