Practically 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 break up resolution to South Africa’s Dlamini final October, snapping the four-fight successful streak Kameda put collectively after falling quick in opposition to Rey Vargas in 2019. There can be no repeat for “Lights Out,” as Kameda dropped him within the fifth en path to a break up resolution win that was by all accounts a considerably extra one-sided combat than the scorecards would counsel.
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 resolution win over Samuel Salva (20-2, 13 KO).
