Lou DiBella’s professional involvement with boxing began when he was appointed Vice President of Programming at HBO Sports in 1989. Over the course of a little over a decade, he and HBO Sports President built HBO into the undisputed champion of boxing broadcasting. In 2000, he left to become an adviser to boxers and then a prinoter, as hewd of DiBella Entertainment. But DiBella, who was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame as part of the class of 2020, has had enough of the sport. In this typically forthright conversation, DiBella talks about fighter health, steroid abuse, and more, and why he is now focusing on his other life as owner of minor league baseball’s Richmond Flying Squirrels.

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