Daiki Kameda: record, next fight and profile →
Tokyo, Japan - Daiki Kameda said Wednesday he was giving up the International Boxing Federation super-flyweight title which he had retained despite controversy. "I intend to give up the IBF (champion) belt," the 25-year-old fighter told reporters at Tokyo's Narita airport before leaving for a two-month training camp in Florida. "There are many strong boxers in Miami. I want to engage in boxing from scratch again."
WBO super flyweight world champion Omar Narvaez (41-1-2, 22KOs) of Argentina is very interested in a unification with IBF champ Daiki Kameda (29-4, 18KOs) of Japan. Narvaez went three for three in 2013, winning a close twelve round split decision over Felipe Orucuta in May and then knocking out Hiroyuki in August and David Carmona in December.
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Manuel Pérez Barreiro, the manager of former world flyweight (115 pounds) champion of the World Boxing Association, the Venezuelan Liborio Solis, has ten days to return 35% of the purse which his fighter received for the match with Daiki Kameda on December 3 in Osaka, Japan. Solis had received full payment of his purse when he faced Daiki, but he failed to make the weight 115-pound weight limit and lost his WBA crown on the scale. Solis won the fight with a twelve round decision, but because he failed to make weight Kameda kept his IBF belt.
Several reports from Japan indicate unrest within the Japanese boxing press, due to a misunderstanding, in regards to IBF world super flyweight champion, Daiki Kameda, and his rights to retain his IBF crown and status as world champion - despite losing a very close split decision against former WBA champion, Liborio Solis, last week in Osaka, Japan.
The worst of Liborio Solis' road trip to Japan ended Monday at the scales, as fight night provided far more memorable results. One day after being forced to vacate his 115 lb. title due to missing weight, Venezuela's Solis found redemption in the form of a split decision win over Daiki Kameda in a 12-round war Tuesday evening in Osaka, Japan. Solis was already facing an uphill climb in trying to claim a win over a Kameda on the road in Japan. The Land of the Rising Sun was kind to the visiting Venezuelan when he conquered Kohei Kono to win a 115 lb. belt in May, but such courtesy never figured to be on the table for Tuesday's affair. Scores were 116-112 (twice) and 115-113 in a bout previously billed as a title unifier in the super flyweight division, but instead a non-title affair once all was said and done.
As reported by BoxingScene.com on Monday, WBA super flyweight champion Liborio Solis was been stripped of his belt after failing to make the weight for his unification title bout against IBF holder Daiki Kameda - taking place later today at the Bodymaker Colosseum in Osaka, western Japan. If Japan's Kameda, 24, beats his Venezuelan opponent, he will own both titles. If he loses, they will be vacant. If the match ends in a draw, the Japanese boxer will retain his International Boxing Federation title but the World Boxing Association title will remain vacant, the Japanese commission said.
With almost no buzz outside even amongst hardcore fight followers, this Tuesday in Osaka, Japan, two of the top fighters at 115 lbs. were slated to put their respective titles on the line against each other. Japan’s decision to join the IBF and WBO in 2013 has opened up new avenues for unification in the lower weight classes. For years, only WBC and WBA titles were recognized in Japan though exceptions had opened up in the last couple years if one of those belts could be unified with a WBO or IBF belt.
We have a fight, as the weights are in, but we don't have a unification. On Tuesday, the flyweight champion of the International Boxing Federation (IBF), Japan's Daiki Kameda (29-3, 18 KOs), will be measuring against the last man to hold the flyweight championship of the World Boxing Association (WBA), the Venezuelan Liborio Solis (15 -3-1, 7 KOs) at the Colieso Bodymaker in Osaka City, Japan.
The flyweight champion of the International Boxing Federation (IBF), Japan's Daiki Kameda (29-3, 18 KOs), met face to face with his next opponent, the flyweight champion of the World Boxing Association (WBA), Venezuelan Liborio Solis (15 -3-1, 7 KOs). The unification takes place on Tuesday, December 3, in the Colieso Bodymaker in Osaka City , Japan. Io the same function, the world bantamweight champion of the World Boxing Organization (WBO), Japan's Tomoki "Mexicanito" Kameda (28-0, 18 KOs), will defend his title for the first time, against an undefeated challenger from Namibia, Immanuel Naidjala (17-0-1, 11 KOs).