Koki Kameda vs. Jung-Oh Sun RBR

Yeah, well, they're about evenly matched... so what does that say?

 

Wow! :yep Japanese fans and media are ripping Kameda, posting some very harsh criticisms of his performance. It seems a majority think he deserved to lose. :conf

The overwhelming sentiment is that Sun landed the more telling blows (which is true) and that it wouldn't have been home cooking had it gone his way, and that South Korean fans have a right to be very upset.

Koki did just enough to squeak by and retain, for me (and officially - so not a robbery, IMO...although I don't know the width of either official scorecards' margin of victory for him...) but his stock definitely does drop from this.

 

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If you search for Tweets using the Japanese transliteration (or rather, non-Romanization) of his name - 亀田 興毅 -, they are even more scathing.

There are multiple allegations of match fixing (which have recurrently plagued the entire clan ever since Koki Kameda vs. Juan Jose Landaeta I...)

 

Oh, and BE, . I do see what you did there.

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Robney, we specifically talked about this on page one!

 

It'll be alright. AFAIK the WBA permitted this voluntary defense with the proviso that he must unify with Anselmo Moreno next or else be stripped.

So it won't be in the same calendar year, but the hostage crises involving both Rocky Martinez's throttle grip on the WBO 130lb crown and Kameda's on the WBA 118lb could be resolved a mere few months apart. (hell, the latter nearly happened today...hardly more than a week after Rocky's long-overdue comeuppance)

As for Burns, he is slated next for either a Beltran rematch or Terence Crawford. In either case, his grasp of the WBO 135lb belt is tenuous at best.

 

Seriously. Aren't there supposed to be international human rights watchdog groups to ensure stuff like this never happens?? :-(

 

Huh...the plot thickens.

So, remember how TBS went off-air before the scorecards were read by the ring announcer? I guess Korean TV, meanwhile, kept rolling, and people watching it claim they saw the judges conferring with members of the Kameda camp (who also promoted the event, as it happens) before the announcement...

Also, half-point scoring was allowed by the WBA (based in Panama, where that system is now fairly common, and gaining traction in other parts of South America). One judge had it 114.5-114 Kameda...