Brian Viloria-Kameda, in the near future?

[alphaqfrankie]

"They've got a kid over there, named Kameda (first name Koki), 19 years old, just won a title," says Arum, "well, they gave it to him."

"A total rob job," says Viloria.

Arum says Kameda is so big in Japan he got a 52.9 TV rating – meaning more than half the sets in the country were watching him against Venezuela's Juan Landaeta.

"He's bigger than Mike Tyson was, he's the self-proclaimed Muhammad Ali of Japan," says Viloria.

"I'm going to have Viloria say he'll fight him for nothing, to get even for what the Japanese did to the Filipinos," says Arum.

--thesweetscience.com


**Kameda maybe well known in Japan, but he's not well known here in the U.S. Is this a good fight for Viloria? Ya, it's another title, but what will it gain for his reputation here?

[Boxing Analyst]

"They've got a kid over there, named Kameda (first name Koki), 19 years old, just won a title," says Arum, "well, they gave it to him."

"A total rob job," says Viloria.

Arum says Kameda is so big in Japan he got a 52.9 TV rating – meaning more than half the sets in the country were watching him against Venezuela's Juan Landaeta.

"He's bigger than Mike Tyson was, he's the self-proclaimed Muhammad Ali of Japan," says Viloria.

"I'm going to have Viloria say he'll fight him for nothing, to get even for what the Japanese did to the Filipinos," says Arum.

--thesweetscience.com


**Kameda maybe well known in Japan, but he's not well known here in the U.S. Is this a good fight for Viloria? Ya, it's another title, but what will it gain for his reputation here?

Kameda won the title by a HOMETOWN decision.

if you go to japan you need a KO to win.

[Papa Ace]

you have to KO viloria to win.

the romero fight is tommorow right?

[flipside]

you have to KO viloria to win.

the romero fight is tommorow right?

10 am live sa solar pre. pwede din sa galleria o kaya sa rob manila

[alphaqfrankie]

you have to KO viloria to win.

the romero fight is tommorow right?

Romero? or do you mean Viloria-Omar Nino fight? Because that one is on tomorrow.

[Papa Ace]

10 am live sa solar pre. pwede din sa galleria o kaya sa rob manila

cge ill get to see it. maaga ako maglulunch out

[flipside]

Romero? or do you mean Viloria-Omar Nino fight? Because that one is on tomorrow.

romero is his last name

[Papa Ace]

Romero? or do you mean Viloria-Omar Nino fight? Because that one is on tomorrow.

its omar nino romero right ?

[alphaqfrankie]

its omar nino romero right ?

Yes, your right. Just looked on boxrec.com. Sorry, but I never heard of Romero till this week.

[grayfist]

"They've got a kid over there, named Kameda (first name Koki), 19 years old, just won a title," says Arum, "well, they gave it to him."

"A total rob job," says Viloria.

Arum says Kameda is so big in Japan he got a 52.9 TV rating – meaning more than half the sets in the country were watching him against Venezuela's Juan Landaeta.

"He's bigger than Mike Tyson was, he's the self-proclaimed Muhammad Ali of Japan," says Viloria.

"I'm going to have Viloria say he'll fight him for nothing, to get even for what the Japanese did to the Filipinos," says Arum.

--thesweetscience.com


**Kameda maybe well known in Japan, but he's not well known here in the U.S. Is this a good fight for Viloria? Ya, it's another title, but what will it gain for his reputation here?

Kameda is the self-annointed "bad boy of Japanese boxing". I think he has two brothers who are also into the sport and have just about the same image.

His last fight against the Venezuelan Juan Jose Landaeta (for the vacant WBA LightFly title) was indeed widely watched in Japan, and it is because of such wide spectator base that nearly every Japanese knows how terrible the decision was. Even majority of the newspapers in Japan cried out in shame. And, it was said that close to thirty thousand emails and phone calls were received by Tokyo Broadcasting System (which carried the fight on TV); 99 percent of those emails and calls reportedly protested the decision.

The decision was split, with the Panamanian judge, Gustavo Padilla, the only one who saw it in favor of Landaeta, while the Korean and the French judges called it for the Japanese even though Landaeta dropped Kameda in the very first round and was reportedly hugging for survival in the final minutes of the bout.

I don't know what Arum was talking about when he said Villoria should avenge Filipino fighters. Kameda has faced several Thai fighters, foremost of whom is the long reigning former IBF/WBC LightFlyweight king, Saman Sorjatorong, who was the author of that dramatic come-from-behind finish of Humberto Gonzalez. Kameda caught Saman when the latter was at the backslope of his career and knocked the Thai down three times in the first. The Kameda loss was Saman's 4th consecutive, and fifth in his last 7 fights.

I don't know that Kameda has ever fought a Filipino. His greatest feat was an RTD win at LightFly over Noel Arambulet, former WBA Minimum weight champ and a Venezuelan.

Kameda is now 12-0 (10KOs).

Edit: In Japan, it is said, people come to watch him fight just to be around for his come-uppance. They say he is not exactly popular; just notorious.

Should be a good fight for Villoria, if ARum can see to it that Brian will not get a raw deal.