Koki still undefeated! [SIZE=+1]WBA #1 / WBC #3 Kameda soundly defeats WBO #2 Flores By Joe Koizumi This content is protected WBA#1/WBC#3 flyweight and ex-WBA 108-pound champ, unbeaten Koki Kameda (17-0, 11 KOs), 112, returned to ring action and pounded out a shutout decision (100-91 twice and 100-90) over WBO#2 light-fly Rexon Flores (19-4-4, 9 KOs), 111.5, over ten fast rounds on Saturday in Chiba, Japan. The Japanese sensation Kameda, 21, connected with a southpaw double left and dropped the Filipino, 25, early in the opening session, but didnt follow up hard to go for a first round knockout. Kameda was too fast and aggressive for the slower Flores, whom the ex-champ battered from all angles in every round. The flamboyant prefight favorite occasionally displayed showboating with his hands low and had him at bay in the ninth, but the Filipino showed his determination and durability to refuse to go down again. Kameda, after an eight-month hiatus, wasnt as sharp and powerful as previously, but showed his superior class against the game Filipino who had been unsuccessful to win the WBO flyweight belt from Omar Narvaez via unanimous decision in Argentina in 2006. Asked by the Japanese press which is stronger between Kameda and Narvaez, Flores replied, Narvaez is faster and Kameda is more powerful. I cannot expect which is better as they havent fought yet. I only admit Kameda is a good boxer with speed and power. Undercard: Unranked Yota Sato (13-2, 6 KOs), 114.75, embalmed OPBF#12 ex-Thai national super-fly champ Petchklongphai Sor Tharnthip (14-16-2, 4 KOs), 115, with a vicious body shot at 2:59 of the third round in a scheduled ten. Koseki Nakama (12-1, 5 KOs), 130, floored Kengo Ito (7-8, 5 KOs), 130, with a furious combo and halted him at 1:19 of the sixth canto in a scheduled ten. Promoter: Kyoei Promotions.[/SIZE] Saturday, March 22 2008
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Ok but overrated in Japan at least at this point. Kameda/Landaeta I was a blatant robbery, though he's improved since then. Not great speed or power, but enough to get by. Style-wise, reminds me of a less powerful version of Robert Guererro. If he stays in Japan, he could be this generation's Sven Ottke, but if he leaves Japan, he'll get exposed eventually.
Did you even see that fight, other than the 1st round knockdown and koki beign out on his feet rounds 11 & 12, Koki Comfortably won that fight. Either way he gave the guy a rematch and schooled him.
Yes, I did see the fight. He was knocked down twice (not once, but the ref called one clear knockdown a slip), badly hurt twice more, and his punches were mostly arm punches that barely did any damage, and he probably was outlanded by Landaeta as well (he did have some good body work, but 90% of the head punches he threw were blocked). He did okay in some of the middle rounds, but ran out of gas around round 8 and lost everything from then on, throwing pitty patty punches while getting rocked by Landaeta's counters. I'm not the only one who thought this fight was a robbery. After the decision, the Japanese government launched an investigation to determine if the judges had been paid off, and the TV station that aired the fight received over 50,000 calls from people complaining that they had fixed the fight (they had a big money contract with the Kamedas). After the fight, the Korean judge was suspended from judging fights because his scorecard was so bad. Public Japanese polls around the time showed that over 90% of people thought that Landaeta won the fight. When the fight ended, Landaeta raised his arms and Kameda hung his head in shame, and looked completely shocked when the decision came out in his favor. His dad/trainer chided him in all of the late rounds, slapping him silly for not throwing punches, and the punches he did throw did almost no damage because he clearly didn't have anything left. If there isn't any more proof that there was some funny business going on, one of the judged scored the first round only 10-9 for Landaeta, despite Koki getting dominated and then knocked down in the round. I don't call too many fights robberies. I didn't think Pac-Marquez or Marquez-Vasquez was a robbery. I didn't think John-Marquez was a robbery. Hell, I didn't even call Casamayor-Santa Cruz a robbery. But Kameda-Landaeta I was a robbery. On the other hand, Kameda-Landaeta II was a clean and convincing win for Kameda, but he progressed a lot in that period. Don't forget that Kameda was only 19 when he beat Landaeta the first time, and you would expect that someone that young would improve from fight to fight, and he has improved a lot since, but he was rushed into the first Landaeta fight and got his ass kicked.
For those of you who saw the Rees-Kotelnik fight, that was pretty similar to what happened in Kameda-Landaeta I (towards the end at least). What happened in that fight was as if the Ref hadn't stopped it, and then the judges gave it to Rees.
