Background
His father Willam is a Greek-born Australian and his mother Lillian was born in Perth, Western Australia.
His father Willam is a Greek-born Australian and his mother Lillian was born in Perth, Western Australia.
Maniatis was lured to the TRUTH newspaper in 1995 and worked as sports journalist for over 15 years. Maniatis also co-hosts a boxing show on radio SEN 1116 Department of Administration and Management Radio Ringside with Mark Fine on Monday nights. In 2002, Maniatis created the KO Boxing Show, which has broadcast over 400 episodes on C31 Melbourne the C31 Boxing Show is still going strong.
Maniatis has made a number of guest appearances on Solar Sports Asia and Foxtel covering boxing and other sports.
Maniatis started promoting boxing events in 1998 and had a contract with Sky Channel television to promote his boxing events nationally in Australia. He linked up with all the best trainers and managers in Australia, including Jeff Fenech, to put Australia"s finest boxers on his promotion fight cards and is the current manager of WBA World Champion Light Flyweight Randy Petalcorin.
Maniatis promoted the comeback Fight of Danny Green at Hisense Arena Melbourne August 19, 2015
Maniatis has traveled all over the world with boxing and maintains a base in Los Angeles, California, United States of America where he trained at the Gym of Hall of Fame Trainer Freddy Roach the Wild Card Gymnasium in West Hollywood.