Teddy Atlas and David Berlin

David Berlin represents professional boxers as well as boxing promoters, managers, advisors and trainers.  He has negotiated promotional contracts, managerial contracts, advisor contracts and trainer contracts, as well as television deals, on behalf of his clients.  And he has protected the rights of his clients at boxing commission hearings and in state and federal courts.

David Berlin’s clients, past and present, include promoters Salita Promotions and Y12 Boxing, managers Dave McWater and Egis Klimas, commentator and trainer Teddy Atlas, matchmaker Don Elbaum, writer Tom Hauser, world champions Michael Moorer, Iran Barkley, Oleksandr Gvozdyk, Saoul Mamby, Juan LaPorte, Aaron Davis, Joey Gamache, Joshua Clottey and Andy Lee, and contenders Otto Wallin, Eddie Chambers, Cletus Seldin, Charles Whittaker, James Butler, Raul Frank and Ivan Redkach.  He also represented the family of Bradley Rone, a journeyman who died in a Utah boxing ring.

Sergey Kovalev and David Berlin

David Berlin served as Executive Director of the New York State Athletic Commission from 2014 to 2016.  In his two years with the Commission, he introduced policies that enhanced boxer safety, worked to raise insurance requirements to provide increased coverage for boxers who were injured in a bout, instituted written protocols for ringside physicians and Commission inspectors in order to serve the boxers who fought in New York in a consistent and professional manner, secured

Don Turner and David Berlin

the first pay raise in 25 years for Commission inspectors and deputy commissioners, fought to change the status of ringside physicians from independent contracts to employees of the Commission in order to create a stable workforce of experienced, committed and competent physicians, and assigned referees and judges to fights based on proven ability and performance in order to make certain that boxers were treated fairly in the ring and that the right boxer’s hand was raised at the end of a fight.  All of these changes were introduced in order to better serve the boxers and were accompanied by an emphasis on treating boxers, their teams and the entire boxing community with respect.  David also spearheaded an initiative that resulted in the enrollment of more than a hundred previously uninsured boxers and others in the boxing community in health coverage plans.

David is the 2016 recipient of the Boxing Writers Association of America’s James A. Farley Award for Honesty and Integrity.

Egis Klimas and David Berlin

David Berlin and Iran Barkley