The main card of CES 66 also features an exciting bantamweight battle between Joey Gomez (6-2, 6 KOs) of Hollis, NH, and Ontario, Canada’s Vlad Kazbekov (6-4, 1 KO). The action begins 8 pm ET on FIGHT PASS with play-by-play announcer Michael Parente color commentator Joe Lauzon a 27-time UFC vet and FUN 107 on-air personality and cageside correspondent Madelyn Levine Limited tickets are available at. The two five-round world-title bouts headline a stacked card as CES MMA makes it 2022 season debut and returns to Ballys for the first time since January of 2020. Balletto, the son of iconic Rhode Island boxer Gary “Tiger” Balletto, fights for his first world title nearly 19 years to the date of his father accomplishing the same feat when he knocked out Johnny Walker to capture the IBU World Lightweight Championship on March 21, 2003.
In the second world-title bout, Cranston, RI native Gary Balletto III (7-2, 2 KOs) faces Billy Goff(5-2, 3 KOs) of Groton, CT, for the promotion’s vacant welterweight crown. That left the title once again vacant – and left CES MMA with the logical choice of giving Soukhamthath and Silva the opportunity to leave Ballys this weekend as a world champion.
