October 17, 2005
TOKYO, JAPAN-Sensational 18-year-old southpaw flyweight, WBA#8/WBC#11 unbeaten Koki Kameda (8-0, 7 KOs) lately renounced his OPBF 112-pound belt and has decided to face ex-WBA minimum champ Noel Arambulet (21-4-1-1NC, 10 KOs) , Venezuela, in Saitama, Japan, on November 26. It might be unbelievable to foreign people that the up-and-coming novice is much more popular and better known to the general public here than our four world champs (Hasegawa, Tokuyama, Kyowa and Niida) because of continually hot coverage of the mass media on him here. Should Kameda, a flamboyant big mouth, soundly grow up to become a world champ soon as he boldly predicts, he might become such a tremendously popular superstar as Fighting Harada and Joichiro Tatsuyoshi. Despite declining popularity of boxing in Japan, only Kameda seems shining very remarkably due to his killer instinct and exceptional power punching. Kameda acquired the vacant OPBF belt, renounced by Hussein Hussein, by furiously dispatching Wanmeechok Singwangcha in only three rounds in such a splendid fashion that his performance apparently diminished a previous skepticism on him last August. Kameda is now training hard in Tokyo with a Mexican sparring partner, Gerson Guerrero, whom he lopsidedly overwhelms every day. Arambulet, a much more experienced footworker, will not be an easy opponent for him owing to his speed and skills. Arambulet forfeited his WBA 105-pound belt on the scale as he failed to make the weight and lost to Yutaka Niida on points here in July of the previous year. The Venezuelan lost a close but unanimous verdict to Brahim Asloum in a flyweight competition in France last November, and won over Alejandro Ordonez in Venezuela this March. It will be a good test for Kameda to face such a name opponent as Arambulet and prove he is a real thing.
(10-17-05)