Don Elbaum, a legendary promoter, matchmaker, and IBHOF inductee, has died at age 94 and will be honored with flags at ...

Erie resident Don Elbaum, whose eight-decade involvement in boxing warranted induction for the sport's hall of fame, died ...

Bizzarro, 25, consistently backed Lara (17-10) against the ropes. The tactic permitted him to connect multiple punches to the ...

Don Elbaum died Sunday night in Erie, Pennsylvania. I have been in this business for 75 years, and when it comes to boxing promoters, I have known them all — from Madison Square Garden’s handful of ...

A ceremonial 10-bell salute was held to honor the late Don Elbaum, an International Boxing Hall of Famer, during Saturday's Bayfront Brawl 17 card.

When he returned home to Erie, Pa., the graduate of Strong Vincent High School made sure he made the most of every day. His terrific sense of humor served him well over six decades of promoting boxing ...

Don Elbaum promoted two fights involving boxers he advised in matchups against Muhammad Ali. But Elbaum doesn't consider those his fondest Ali memories. He's just as quick to share a story about th… ...

Elbaum is often credited for helping promoter Don King start working in the boxing business. In the HBO film titled "Don King: Only in America" about King's life in 1997, Elbaum played a role as ...

Don Elbaum is one of the great - redundant phrase coming up - boxing hustlers. If he could sing, he'd qualify for a part in "Guys and Dolls." Come to think of it, maybe he does sing.

Then a photographer asked him to don them on for a picture and he discovered they were both left-handed remainders, snaffled by Elbaum from a dusty corner of some gym when he dreamt up the gimmick.

Elbaum matched another Detroit boxer, Alvin “Blue” Lewis, against the now-Ali in Dublin in 1972. Lewis was a tough boxer who gave Ali a battle, but eventually was knocked out in the 11th round.

You can thank—or blame—Elbaum for giving Don King his start in the Sweet Science. "In 1971 King got me to put together a Muhammad Ali exhibition in Cleveland," he says.