World Boxing Association’s fifth-ranked super bantamweight Tomoki ‘’El Mexicanito’’ Kameda of TMK Promotion pounded out a 12-round close but unanimous decision over 10th-ranked Yonfrez Parejo of Venezuela on Dec. 11 (12 Japan time) in Mexico’s Hermosillo and became the next challenger to the reigning ‘’super’’ champion Murodjon Akhmadaliev of Uzbekistan who also holds the IBF title of the division.

There were no knockdowns throughout the fight at Centro De Usos Multiples（CUM）in which no fierce exchange of punches took place.

After starting out quietly, the 30-year-old Kameda gradually controlled the fight with his left jabs and straight rights.

While the 35-year-old Parejo began to rally from around the seventh round by targeting Kameda’s body, the fleet-footed Kameda, the youngest of the so-called ‘’three Kameda brothers,’’ stuck to his risk-avoidance style of boxing the rest of the way for victory.

With the victory, Kameda has a record of 38 wins, including 20 knockouts, against three losses, while Parejo, a former WBA bantamweight interim champion, has a 24-4-1 win-loss-draw tally with 12 KOs.

Kameda first captured the World Boxing Organization’s bantamweight title in 2013 by decisioning Paulus Ambunda of Namibia. After retaining the title three times, Kameda took a crack at the WBA bantamweight title held by Britain’s Jamie McDonnell only to lose.

After moving up in class, Kameda became the World Boxing Council’s interim champion in 2018. He lost to Rey Vargas of Mexico in the title unification bout in 2019.　Photo by Tomoki Kameda