Kates retired after a 14-year career in 1983 with a record of 44-6 with 23 knockouts. His 44 wins are the most of any boxer from Atlantic, Cape May or Cumberland Counties over the last 60 years.
Millville middleweight boxer Thomas LaManna joined a special group of local fighters Friday night with a fourth-round TKO over Colombia's Francisco Cordero in the Dominican Republic.