Former world title challenger and WBA #4 rated middleweight Thomas “Cornflake” LaManna (37-5, 16 KOs) will fight for the WBA gold middleweight title against WBA #9 super welterweight Johan “Chelo Manotas” Gonzalez (34-2, 33 KOs) in a twelve-round bout on Saturday, June 8 at Bally’s Atlantic City. The event is being promoted by Main Events in association with LaManna’s Rising Star Promotions.
“Working with Main Events is a real honor,” said LaManna. “We’ve been talking about a fight like this for months, almost a year. Thankfully Main Events can see my mission and they can see my drive between fighting and promoting and I’m glad they got behind mean they are taking a chance with me and I’m looking forward to continuing with them in the future.”
Promoter Kathy Duva stated, “Now that he has an opportunity to challenge for the world title, Main Events is happy to step in and help so LaManna can focus exclusively on preparing for the biggest fight of his career. Main Events has a long history promoting boxing in Atlantic City. And a great deal of those fights were promoted in association with Bally’s. We are looking forward to a great promotion.”
I like Cornflake. Not a world beater but absolutely maximising his career and always working hard – more power to him.
Yes, definitely a middle of the road fighter, but will scrap. Good luck to him.
Gold middleweight title,, that’s funny! Wasn’t there supposed to be a reduction in belts ?
Just comical!
Come on man. This kid is a good little ticket seller. But he’s getting KO’d again in the 1st round if he fights championship level opps.
Yes, I noticed the “GOLD” title started being injected into things a couple years ago, and nobody was saying anything..
Maybe if you win the silver you can move up to challenge for the gold. Then the world or international.
– I may go this event at Bally’s in AC NJ if the ticket prices are reasonable…..