Nelson Fernandez, manager of North Bergen based title contender Carlos "El Olimpico" Tamara, was visibly upset upon hearing that Juan Landaeta is now likely to face Cesar Canchila in an IBF Junior Flyweight title eliminator. Tamara recently told GSFS that he was going to fight Landaeta for a crack at champion Brian Viloria but didn't provide a date.
Insiders claim that the long overdue fight hadn't already taken place due to Landaeta's unwillingness to make it happen, even though the bout was supposed to take place on neutral grounds.
"The bout with Landaeta was extremely hard to book because Landaeta's people were asking for Oscar De La Hoya money" said Fernandez. "When we (Universal Promotions, Tamara's promoter) reversed the dealings meaning (we told them to) hold the fight in (Landaeta's native) Venezuela and we'll take (whatever that they offer), all of the sudden the TV (networks) did not want to pay."
Landaeta's unwillingness to make fight surprisingly cost Tamara. The IBF strangely elected to drop him from their rankings, even though he was highly rated and had a stay busy fight in Columbia on August 21.
"We are trying to get back into the rankings as we speak", mentioned Fernandez. By Friday Universal Promotions did say to me that we are going to make it public when and where Tamara is going to fight and we did inform the IBF about it so stay tuned".
Tamara, 19-4 (14 KO's) was on the 2004 Colombian Olympic team and unsuccessfully challenged for a Flyweight title against Omar Narvaez last year.
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