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Atlantic City, NJ (Januari 11, 2017) – Thomas “Cornflake” LaManna will battle veteran Eduardo Flores eight-round junior middleweight bout on zaterdag avond, January 28th bij de Claridge Hotel in Atlantic City.
The bout will headline a card promoted by Rising Promotions.
CEO of Rising Promotions Debra LaManna stated, “We are starting 2017 with a tremendous card and we plan on only doing bigger and better things for boxing this year.”
LaManna van Millville, New Jersey heeft een record van 21-2 met negen knockouts.
De 25 year-old is coming off a defeat to undefeated Dusty Hernandez Harrison in a thrilling bout that took place on September 15th in Philadelphia.
In dat gevecht, LaManna fought a good fight and had solid moments throughout the hotly contested bout that was for the USBA Welterweight title.
LaManna is moving back up to the 154 pound division where LaManna is undefeated (7-0 tussen 148-154 pond) in the division for which he turned professional in 2011.
LaManna won his first 16 uiteinden, where enjoyed wins over Ashanti Gibbs and Jamaal Davis.
After suffering his first professional defeat to undefeated middleweight prospect Antoine Douglas, LaManna ripped off five consecutive victories that was highlighted by by a 4th round stoppage over Kendal Mena (20-3).
“I’m looking forward to displaying my boxing skills against this rugged veteran,” said LaManna He’s been in the ring with a lot of good fighters and former world champions, but never been in there with me. I feel my height, youth and size will play a big role in this fight but it’s all about making adjustments and fighting the smartest fight possible to get the win.”
“Mijn laatste gevecht, I took a L but that stands for “Lesson” and since that lesson, I’ve been training extremely hard and I’m very focus at this task at hand.”
Flores of Quito, Ecuador is a 52-fight veteran and sports a record of 25-24-3 met 15 knock-outs.
De 30 year-old Flores is a 10 jaar professionele, who has taken on the best fighters in the 135-154 pound divisions such as former world champions Carlos Baldomir, Diego Chaves & Kermit Cintron as well as 19 other undefeated opponents, for which Flores had three wins and a draw.
Flores is coming off a six-round unanimous decision defeat to undefeated Sammy Valentin (9-0) op November 18th in Kissimmee, Florida.
In de zes-round co-feature, licht zwaargewicht
Chuck Mussachio (19-3-2, 5 KO's)
of Wildwood,
New Jersey will fight Michael Mitchell (3-7-2, 1 KO) van Paterson, New Jersey.
Mitchell has faced terrific competition and has only been stopped once, and has fought four undefeated fighters.
Also scheduled to appear in a six-round bout will be:
Super middengewicht
Gabriel Pham (6-1, 2 KO's)
of Pleasantville, NJ. neemt
Jose Valderrama (5-17, 3 KO's)
of Manati, Puerto Rico.
John Bauza (5-0, 2 KO's) van North Bergen, NJ zullen strijden Tyrome Jones (4-0, 1 KO) of South Bend, Indiana in a battle of undefeated junior welterweights.
In vier-ronde vlagen:
Ernesto Perez van Vineland, NJ zal zijn pro debuut te maken tegen Courtney McCleave (2-5, 1 KO) van Concord, North Carolina in a junior middleweight bout.
Jamil Simmons of Pleasantville, NJ zal zijn pro debuut te maken tegen Tomas Romain (0-1) van Brooklyn, NY in a lightweight bout.
Bantamgewicht Dallas Holden van Atlantic City (1-0) zal op pro debuterende nemen Matthew Lyall of Pleasantville, NJ.
Quian Davis (4-0-2)
of Mays Landing, New Jersey-gevechten
Demonte Cherry (1-2,1 KO)
of North Carolina in a heavyweight bout.
Emmnuel Rodriguez of Quebradillias, Puerto Rico will make his pro debut against Weusi Johnson (1-2) van Wilmington, Delaware in a bantamweight bout.
Dan Murray (1-0) van Lanoka Harbor, New Jersey squares off with Nahir Albright (0-1) van Sicklerville, New Jersey in a junior welterweight bout.
Also scheduled to compete in four-round bouts will be junior welterweight Bryne Green (7-9-1, 3 KO's) van Paulsboro, NJ & weltergewicht Yurik Mamedov (3-0, 1 KO) van Brooklyn, NY against opponents to be announced.
Tickets for this great evening of boxing are $125, $80 en $55 en kunnen worden gekocht bij
www.RSPboxing.com
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