{"id":936594,"date":"2026-10-17T16:06:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T16:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/936594\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T16:06:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T16:06:19","slug":"brandon-figueroa-misses-weight-stripped-of-wba-featherweight-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/936594\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Figueroa misses weight, stripped of WBA featherweight title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Kameda (42-5, 23 KO), fighting for the first time since a close loss to the equally inactive Angelo Leo 17 months ago, can still claim the belt with a victory. Odds are he\u2019d inherit the Inoue fight, too; a fight between them would do absolute gangbusters on Japanese turf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Should he fall short, perhaps no. 1 Mirco Cuello will finally get his due. The Argentinean is coming up on two years since he won a final eliminator, having been forced to watch as Nick Ball fought a pair of super bantamweights before letting Figueroa cut the line. Behind Cuello sits knockout artist Mikito Nakano, then Kameda, then Ivan Chirkov, who somehow got that ranking despite his most recent fight being a six-round draw against a random Uzbek whose previous 11 foes combined for an 0-12 record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kameda (42-5, 23 KO), fighting for the first time since a close loss to the equally inactive Angelo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":936595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-936594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}