Johnriel Casimero will undergo some sort of an audition when ha makes his debut as Koki Kameda\u2019s new talent in a fight being eyed for December either in Kyrgyzstan or Japan.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll see what happens in his first fight under Kameda Promotions,\u201d Kameda said on Saturday at Winford Resort Casino.<\/p>\n
Kameda signed up the immensely-popular Filipino three-division champion to a promotional contract recently.<\/p>\n
Kameda added that Casimero will be brought to Japan for training. Kyrgyzstan, where Kameda just held a big promotion, is also an option as venue for his training camp.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would like to see him do his sparring in Japan,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Casimero\u2019s one-year suspension by the Japan Boxing Commission (JBC) will lapse in October.<\/p>\n
He was meted a 12-month ban by the JBC after failing to make weight in a fight with Saul Sanchez of the United States in October last year in Yokohama.<\/p>\n
While Casimero knocked out Sanchez in the first round, his being overweight was taken seriously by the JBC.<\/p>\n
At 36 years of age, Casimero is in a mad rush to get another shot at the world crown, something Kameda swears would depend on his \u201cbehavior.\u201d<\/p>\n
During a dinner meeting with Casimero on Friday, Kameda made it clear with His newly-signed talent that there is no guarantee that he will battle pound-for-pound king Naoya Inoue.<\/p>\n
Casimero holds a 34-4-1win-loss-draw record with 23 knockouts and remains ranked in the world by the major sanctioning bodies.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything would depend on how he will look in his first fight with Kameda Promotions,\u201d added Kameda, obviously aware of Casimero\u2019s multiple weighin violations, including the fiasco in Dubai in 2021, in Liverpool in April 2022 and his being stripped of the world light-flyweight title in 2014 in Cebu when he stepped in five pounds over 108.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Johnriel Casimero will undergo some sort of an audition when ha makes his debut as Koki Kameda\u2019s new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,37069,37068,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-71872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-john-riel-casimero","10":"tag-koki-kameda","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}