Dmitry Salita

Dmitry Salita (Russian: Дмитрий Салита; Ukrainian: Дмитро Саліта; "Star of David"; born April 4, 1982) is a Ukrainian-born Jewish-American boxer from Brooklyn, New York in the welterweight division. He has a 33–1–1 record, with 16 KOs. He is 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m), and his reach is 69". He is a practising Orthodox Jew, and became so after he moved to Brooklyn. He does not fight on the Sabbath or Jewish holidays and follows Jewish dietary laws. Born in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Odessa, Ukraine) as Dmitry Aleksandrovich Lekhtman, Salita was five years old when he saw his first boxing match. "It was Mike Tyson, and I remember dancing around my room that night imitating the moves", he recalled. Salita moved with his family to Flatbush, Brooklyn, at the age of nine because of the escalating violence against Jews in Ukraine. His father, Aleksandr Lekhtman, was an engineer; his late mother, Lyudmila Salita, was an accountant. He has one brother, Mikhail. He uses his mother's...