Three Kameda brothers

The three Kameda brothers (亀田三兄弟, Kameda San kyōdai^?) are a famous boxing trio in Japan.^[1]

• Kōki Kameda (亀田興毅, born November 17, 1986): The eldest son and the former WBA light flyweight champion. Koki Kameda defeated Juan Jose Landaeta of Venezuela August 2, 2006 at Yokohama Arena by split decision to win the WBA World Light Flyweight title. The reaction of Kameda’s split decision win drew criticism from hardcore Japanese fight fans.Zach Arnold.^[2] Koki went on to face Landaeta again in which he won decisively, by outboxing Landaeta for most of the match using his quickness and accuracy. There was an outcry from the Japanese public about his first bout against Landaeta being fixed. Former world champions Guts Ishimatsu and Yasuei Yakushiji have commented that they believe Kameda lost the fight.^[3] Criticism also revolves around his boxing skills and sportsmanship. The fact that Kameda's first six opponents had a combined record of 0–18 brought much criticism during the early part of his professional career. Kameda returned his light flyweight title to move up to the flyweight division on January 22, 2007. He has an undefeated record of 20-0-0 (13 KOs).
• Daiki Kameda (亀田大毅, January 6, 1989 - ): The second eldest son. Daiki lost to Daisuke Naito, then the WBC flyweight champion, in Naito's first title defense on October 11, 2007. His boxing licence has been suspended by the Japan Boxing Commission for one year because of the misconduct that he committed during the match.^[4] The discraced Daiki Kameda, his head shaved in a sign of contrition, visited the home of rival Daisuke Naito on to apologise for his violent outburst during last week's world title bout. The 18-year-old Kameda was banned for a year after punching Naito while he was down, picking the champion up and slamming him to the canvas in a furious rage. "I was a bit surprised he suddenly turned up at my house," acknowledged Naito. "His father also called to apologise."^[5] Kameda will be making his second bid for a world title in Osaka on October 6, 2009 and his first since he was banned for a year for violent behavior in a failed bid for the WBC crown in 2007. "I'm happy to finally get another chance to fight for the world title," the 20-year-old told a news conference. "Now all I have to do is take care of business."Thomson Reuters 2009 ^[6]

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• Tomoki Kameda (亀田和毅, July 12, 1991 - ): The youngest son. He had been training for the Beijing Olympics. However, he canceled this plan because he will be too young to qualify for the Olympic qualifier, and decided to pursue pro career as soon as he will be eligible for pro license. Nicknamed "El Mexicanito" Kameda had a fight scheduled for 6 rounds with TKO in the third round in which he displayed his power punches. Tomoki Kameda, this was the first time that a Japanese combatant would come to Mexico and dominate the professional boxing scene. Tomoki currently holds a professional record of 11-0 with nine of his wins coming by way of knockout. Hisao Adachi^[8] Tomoki Kameda was with very high morals and confesses that he intends to win the title of Japan or the title of OPBF (Boxing Federation of East and Pacific) by the end of this year 2009. Tomoki Kameda did comment that "I would dispute the title of Japan or the OPBF later this year. Look for opportunity in weight or weight supermosca cock." ^[9] Tomoki Kameda makes oath that "I consagrare training in Mexico with the strong mental and physical training carrying a crisis mentality in a positive way for me to be able to go very far in professional boxing.." ^[10]

The Kameda brothers are perhaps some of Japan's most famous young boxers ever. Also known as the 'brat pack' boxing family. Their father, Shiro Kameda (亀田史郎), trained them in their Osaka home since they were very young. All three of them soon became very popular as they started winning virtually every amateur boxing tournament. However, as a result of the incident over Daiki's misconduct during WBC flyweight championship match on October 11, 2007, Shiro stopped training Kōki and Daiki since. Because he was booted out of the sport for abusing the referee.

In the latest years the Kameda brothers’ careers have been seeing better days. Koki Kameda was chosen as Rookie of the Year 2005 as well as Japan "Noqueador of the Year" in 2005 Japan. In 2006, Koki Kameda was awarded the "fighting spirit of the Year" in Japan by the Commissioner of Boxing in Japan. The unbeaten former world champion Koki Kameda minimosca will reappearing the ring of Japan after a year of absence since his last two fights were in Mexico, where precisely in Monterrey Mexican Salvador Montes defeated by decision in 12 rounds to 30 August 2008 in Hermosillo in Sonora where he won by KO in the second round over Mexican Mario Montiel on July 12, 2008. Kameda, Koki (the minimosca unbeaten former world champion and current world ranked # 1AMB) and Daiki (# 11AMB classified world supermosca). The great ambition of the three brothers is that Koki Kameda Daiki and Tomoki and are world champions simultaneously. Shiro Kameda, gave name to his three children with significance that Koki and Daiki and Tomoki, with feeling of solidarity hermanal lift Yamato (the old name for Japan).[10]

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