On August 28, TMK Gym announced that former two-division world champion Kazuki Kameda will challenge WBA featherweight world champion Brandon Figueroa on October 17 in Las Vegas. If it happens, the bout would make Kameda the first Japanese boxer ever to claim world titles in three weight divisions — but rather than straightforward excitement, the thread’s discussion centered on the framing that “Kameda gets to face a bigger name in Figueroa than Naoya Inoue does.” There was also back-and-forth over a boxing rules question: whether a title should count toward a division sweep if it’s only an interim belt.
Sports Hochi
August 28, 2026, 12:08 PM
Professional boxing’s TMK Gym announced on the 28th that its fighter, former two-division world champion Kazuki Kameda, will challenge WBA featherweight world champion Brandon Figueroa (USA) on October 17 in Las Vegas.
Source: hochi.news / Original article here
Inoue completely KO'd Fulton — the guy who beat Figueroa twice.
Also heard Mr. Kameda absolutely hates airplanes (probably wordplay — "daikirai" (hate) echoes "Daiki," the middle brother's name)
The three Kameda brothers: Koki, Daiki, Koki (sic — the youngest is actually Kazuki, so this "mnemonic" gets his name wrong)
There are two guys with the same name in there.
Inoue hates the Kameda family with a passion, so I bet he'd just ignore him even as champion. Honestly, the level gap with Figueroa is so big it's not even a million-to-one scenario.
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Kameda III mentally can't handle being pressured hard, so the styles genuinely clash badly. He doesn't have the skill to outbox someone the way Fulton did, either.
He won't do it. No way he lets Kameda cash in — that's how much he despises the Kameda family.
The Kameda brothers were never delinquents to begin with, though.
Even an interim title counts. Yes, in Japan too.
It's contradictory — it counts even though it's not a real "conquest." That's just how boxing is, I guess. Doesn't matter anyway since real boxing fans don't recognize it.
In the end, No. 3 is overwhelmingly the strongest. No. 1 and No. 2 were nothing at featherweight — they're ultra-lightweight guys, and Japan churns out world champions in those divisions all the time.
Well, obviously. He rematched Fulton at featherweight too and had his world title taken off him again.
Pretending not to know Figueroa fought Fulton is pretty transparent.
Kameda III was pretty solid back in his bantamweight days — even matched against today's Tenshin, he'd probably have a slight edge.
But once he moved up in weight he lost his finishing power and became just a somewhat-quick, forgettable ("shio" — boxing slang for a bland, unexciting fighter) type. The first McDonnell fight could've gone his way if it had been held in Japan. If his father and older brother had managed his career better, he might've at least ended up as sacrificial-lamb material for Inoue.
Nobody's dumb enough to pick a fight with Kyonosuke over a world title match, lol.
Are people like this actually being serious?
They're waiting on "Bam" — he keeps waffling about whether he'll take the fight or not. Bam wouldn't stand a chance against Inoue, but he's popular overseas.
He won't fight him because he'd lose. Shinya Aoki pointed this out too — Naoya Inoue manages risk so carefully that he doesn't take fights he can't win.
Donaire was 39 in his second fight against Inoue.
That's the fight where he got blown away in an instant.
Background and Key Points of the Debate
The WBA featherweight division sometimes carries both a regular champion and an interim champion, and how interim titles are treated varies by sanctioning body and country. The thread’s claims that “an interim title doesn’t count toward a division sweep” and “Japan doesn’t recognize interim titles” aren’t baseless — they reflect the JBC’s (Japan Boxing Commission) practice of not treating interim belts as official world titles. Whether Figueroa holds the regular title affects how much weight the “three-division conquest” claim actually carries. The repeated comparisons to Naoya Inoue stem from the fact that Inoue, having gone undisputed across two divisions, has become the benchmark for Japanese boxing — and the Kameda family is often invoked as a foil in that same context. Readers should note that the thread’s comparisons of opponent strength get tangled easily, with posts disagreeing on assumed ages and fight timelines.
*This article is compiled as an excerpt/summary of the 5ch (Entertainment/Sports News+) thread “Kazuki Kameda to Re-Challenge for a Three-Division World Title on 10/17 in Las Vegas — WBA Featherweight Champion Figueroa Fight: “In a place I love… it’s a huge motivation”.”
