Almost 5 years after his final bid for two-division glory, Tomoki Kameda is ready for an additional crack at gold after beating Lerato Dlamini in an IBF featherweight eliminator this morning.
“El Mexicanito” (42-4, 23 KO) dropped a shock cut up determination to South Africa’s Dlamini final October, snapping the four-fight successful streak Kameda put collectively after falling brief towards Rey Vargas in 2019. There could be no repeat for “Lights Out,” as Kameda dropped him within the fifth en path to a cut up determination win that was by all accounts a considerably extra one-sided struggle than the scorecards would recommend.
Now a decade faraway from his bantamweight reign, Kameda has earned himself a date with newly topped champion Angelo Leo, who demolished Luis Alberto Lopez two weeks again with what may be 2024’s Knockout of the Yr. A conflict between these two physique punchers might very simply produce fireworks.
Earlier within the present, former WBC minimumweight champion Yudai Shigeoka (9-1, 5 KO) bounced again from final March’s upset loss to Melvin Jerusalem with a aggressive determination win over Samuel Salva (20-2, 13 KO).
