{"id":933087,"date":"2026-10-18T23:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T23:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/933087\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T23:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T23:04:16","slug":"figueroa-misses-weight-by-1-4-pounds-stripped-of-wba-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/933087\/","title":{"rendered":"Figueroa misses weight by 1.4 pounds, stripped of WBA title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"underline text-text-primary font-medium hover:text-blue-70 transition-colors\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ringmagazine.com\/fighters\/brandon-figueroa-5cYoZomghBwbWjB1ctOSo8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Figueroa<\/a> weighed 127.4 pounds on Friday for his scheduled title bout against <a class=\"underline text-text-primary font-medium hover:text-blue-70 transition-colors\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ringmagazine.com\/fighters\/tomoki-kameda-5R69p8HVaqTsQHragSsczX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tomoki Kameda<\/a>. The Westlaco, Texas, native weighed 126.8 pounds on his second attempt to make the featherweight limit.<\/p>\n<p>Kameda weighed under the featherweight limit at 125.4 pounds and is still eligible to win the title. If Figueroa wins, the belt will become vacant. Representatives for both fighters are negotiating a penalty for Figueroa to pay for missing weight, but the fight is expected to happen. <\/p>\n<p>Figueroa (27-2-1, 20 KOs) vs. Kameda (42-5, 23 KOs) is scheduled as the co-main event to <a class=\"underline text-text-primary font-medium hover:text-blue-70 transition-colors\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ringmagazine.com\/events\/fundora-vs-hadribeaj-6RdI9zXLhjNUWKbU84jdIQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sebastian Fundora\u2019s defense of his WBC 154-pound title against Ermal Hadribeaj on Saturday<\/a>. The card begins at 8 p.m. ET\/5 p.m. PT and will stream on DAZN worldwide and be televised on TNT and truTV in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Figueroa, The Ring\u2019s No. 4-ranked featherweight, won the title with a 12th-round stoppage of Nick Ball on February 7 in Liverpool. The 29-year-old from Westlaco, Texas, dropped Ball twice in the final round to become a two-time featherweight world champion.<\/p>\n<p>Kameda is making his second bid to win a featherweight world title. The Osaka, Japan, native lost a majority decision to IBF champion Angelo Leo in May 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Kameda, 35, held the WBO bantamweight title from 2013 to 2015 before losing it by unanimous decision to Jamie McDonnell in May 2015. Figueroa made his pro debut on that same card, winning a unanimous decision against Hector Gutierrez in a four-round bout.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Figueroa weighed 127.4 pounds on Friday for his scheduled title bout against Tomoki Kameda. The Westlaco, Texas, native&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":933088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[90965,64,63,802,232239,1920,28241,85,2974],"class_list":["post-933087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-object-object","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-articles","tag-boxing-news","tag-featured-news","tag-sports","tag-the-ring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}