David Diamante

Diamante began his ring announcing career in New York City.[5] His first fight was in the basement of the Church Street Boxing Gym in Lower Manhattan. [6]

Diamante volunteered for several years in the New York boxing community announcing fights for USA Boxing Metro and the New York Golden Gloves.[7] He has since gone on to announce for HBO, Showtime, ESPN, DAZN, Fox Sports, NBC, CBS, Sky Sports and many others.[8] [9][10]

In 2018, Diamante signed an exclusive deal with Eddie Hearn's Matchroom Boxing with broadcasts appearing on DAZN and Sky Sports.[11][12]

In 2012, Diamante was selected by Jay-Z and Nets management to become the official voice of the new NBA franchise, the Brooklyn Nets. He signed a multi-year deal and announced the final season for the Nets in New Jersey in 2011-2012 before following the team on their move to Brooklyn.[13]

He has also announced numerous NCAA Men’s Basketball games for schools across the US.[14]

Diamante has announced various MMA and Muay Thai events, including the first ever legally sanctioned MMA show in New York City in May of 2013.

As a NY-native and boxing historian, Diamante has lent his announcing abilities to a variety of culturally significant boxing events in NYC. In October of 2012, Diamante hosted the co-naming ceremony of 45 Street in Sunnyside, Queens, to Sunnyside Garden Way in celebration of the famed, now-demolished Sunnyside Garden boxing arena.[15]

Diamante anchored The 'Lights on NBC Sports Network, a daily morning sports highlights program that was launched in August of 2012 as an alternative to ESPN 's SportsCenter.[16] Diamante hosted the show Cigars with David Diamante produced by Unarmed Media.[17]

In December 20, 2013 David Diamante emceed Choices the NYC DOT launch of their anti-DWI Campaign with New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan and former Net Kerry Kittles.[18]

Diamante voiced the 2016 and 2017 Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year Awards, won by LeBron James and co-won by José Altuve and J. J. Watt, respectively.[18]

In September 7, 2013 Diamante served as the emcee for the Friars Club Roast of Boomer Esiason at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel.[19]

Diamante played drums in several bands over the years including LDK (Reston, VA) and Sharkbait. He drummed with Sharkbait as the headline act for Burning Man on September 4, 1994.[20] Diamante recorded with and gave drum lessons to Kirk Hammett from Metallica in the early 90’s.[20]

Diamante is the former owner and founder of Diamante's Brooklyn Cigar Lounge in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.[21] He logged time in Cuba, Nicaragua, Honduras and Dominican Republic learning the tobacco trade. He produces his own brand of cigar named Diamante's, which is made of Cuban-seed Nicaraguan, Honduran and Dominican tobaccos hand rolled in the Dominican Republic.[22]