Angelo Leo vs Tomoki Kameda

Date
Sat 24th May 2025 (UTC)
Sat 24th May 2025 (Local)

Timestamp
2025-05-24T05:00:00

Time

05:00:00 UTC (14:00:00 Local)

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League
Boxing

Season
2025

Round
63

Status
Match Finished

Location
INTEX Osaka

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Description

Two title matches top this show, including the return of Angelo Leo as he fights for the first time since winning the IBF belt at 126lbs. Leo will defend against Tomoki Kameda while strawweight titleholder Pedro Taduran will face Ginjiro Shigeoka.

Leo, 25-1 (12 KOs), took the IBF featherweight title by force with a highlight-reel knockout of Luis Alberto Lopez last August, dropping him for the count in the 10th round. The victory made Leo a two-division titleholder. He previously won a vacant world title at junior featherweight in 2020, outpointing Tramaine Williams. Leo’s reign was brief, however; he lost the belt to Stephen Fulton less than six months later. Leo had one more fight at 122 and then moved up to 126, notching a few more wins before taking on Lopez.

The win over Lopez took place in Leo’s hometown of Albuquerque, New Mexico. For this defense, the 31-year-old will be heading into Kameda’s hometown. And Leo would of course like this second reign to last longer than his first.

Kameda, 42-4 (23 KOs), is a member of the fighting Kameda family alongside fellow former titleholders Koki and Daiki.

Tomoki is about a decade removed from his last title reign. He defeated Paulus Ambunda for the WBO bantamweight belt in 2013 and made three successful defenses before vacating the belt in April 2015 so that he could instead challenge the WBA’s secondary titleholder, Jamie McDonnell. Kameda lost the narrowest of unanimous decisions to McDonnell, just one point down on all three scorecards. Their rematch ended with a much wider victory for McDonnell.

Kameda has gone 11-2 since then and is now 33 years old. He fell short against Rey Vargas in a junior featherweight title bout in 2019 and lost a split decision to the 19-2 Lerato Dlamini in October 2023. Kameda and Dlamini had a rematch one year later; this time it was Kameda winning via split decision in October 2024 in what was Kameda’s most recent appearance in the ring.