Elie Seckbach


Elie Seckbach is an Israeli-born, American writer who has been covering the NBA since 1997 along with Boxing and the Olympics.
His YouTube channel ESNEWS has over 800 million views and 520,000 subscribers. He has worked for the Los Angeles Daily News , CBS-TV, NBC-TV, FOX 11 as well as news outlets in Israel.
Seckbach was sampled in the Lil Wayne song "Kobe Bryant" and has played as himself in the film "Who Shot Mamba". In July 2020 Lil Wayne performed an updated version of the song during the BET Awards and Seckbach's voice is in that song as well.
Sometime in 2008, he began reporting for AOL Sports FanHouse. In October 2008, he began reporting for NBC-TV's website covering the Los Angeles Lakers. In September 2008, Seckbach was a featured speaker at The Blog World convention in Las Vegas talking about new media and journalism.
In 2011, Seckbach produced a reality show about top boxing trainer, Roberto Garcia, trainer of year in 2011, 2012 & 2013. There are over 100 episodes of the Robert Garcia Reality Show.
In March 2018, Seckbach was featured in an article of the Ring Magazine as one of the pioneers of covering boxing online .
In September 2018, The LA Times featured Seckbach in a story - and titled him "The most influential reporter in boxing."
In November 2019, The WBA honored Seckbach during their 98th annual convention in China for his contribution to the sport of boxing.
Seckbach also worked as a boxing correspondent for before going on to establish his own .
FOX 11 News in Los Angeles have interviewed Seckbach about his boxing coverage
For his work in broadcast television, Seckbach has won two Emmy Awards, a Golden Mike and the Associated Press Mark Twain Award.