Daiki Kameda “wins” a boxing match
Last night, Koki Kameda’s younger brother, Daiki, fought Indonesian flyweight champion Wido Paes. Here’s what fightnews.com had to say about the fight:
Sensational 17-year-old brother of newly crowned WBA 108-pound champ Koki Kameda, hard-punching superfly Daiki Kameda (5-0, 4 KOs), 114.75, impressively dropped Indonesian flyweight champ Wido Paes (18-5-3, 7 KOs), 112.5, twice and finished him for the count at 1:45 of the first round in a scheduled eight on Sunday in Yokohama, Japan.
Kameda kept stalking the circling opponent with his favorite peek-a-boo guard without throwing jabs, and caught the Indonesian with a vicious left hook to the temple. Down he went. Paes struggled to regain his feet, resumed fighting, but badly hit the deck again with Daiki’s strong combinations, this time, to be counted out by the ref Fukuchi. As usual, after his KO victory, Daiki displayed his good voice by singing a song in the ring afterwards.
Here is a video of the fight:
Sadly, there doesn’t seem to be a video of the post-fight song on YouTube, but you can view an example of his singing abilities here.
Unfornately for Daiki, it seems that the commonly-held belief that his older brother’s championship match was fixed has been applied to last night’s match. Even before the match, the Japanese media was looking for evidence of further Kameda fraud:
Prior to the fight there happened a ridiculous scandal by Daily Gendai (“modern” in Japanese) that wrongly pointed out that Paes wasn’t the Indonesian national champ. The paper said only three fights of Paes had been registered in BoxRec. com and Paes didn’t win the national belt according to BoxRec. com, although its records of Indonesian, Thai or Filipino boxers sometimes aren’t complete. The matchmaker had to distribute his complete record (authorized by the Indonesian commission) and the Indonesian ratings, to the press people, that proved Paes certainly acquired the national belt by stopping Panca Silaban on July 12, 2005 and Paes should be currently the legitimate champ.
The fight video that was posted on YouTube has been flooded with anti-Kameda comments, and the fact that it was the most-viewed video on the site today is a good indication of the netizen interest in continued Kameda clan fixed-fight rumors. Will Japanese fans every believe in fair boxing matches again? Probably not if the matches involve the Kameda brothers.
