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JOE KOIZUMI BLASTS DAIKI KAMEDA'S WIN


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Hall-of-Fame journalist, boxing manager and matchmaker Joe Koizumi has blasted the controversial split decision victory of Daiki Kameda who retained his WBA flyweight title over European champion Silvio Oltenau of Romania in Saitama on Sunday.

Koizumi said Kameda (19-2, 11 KOs) barely kept his belt as he eked out a highly controversial split decision over totally aggressive Silvio Olteanu (11-4, 3 KOs).

Judges Jose Roberto Torres (Puerto Rico) had Kameda the winner 115-113 and Levi Martinez (US) 116-112 while Roberto Ramirez (Puerto Rico) saw it for Oltenau by a wide 118-110 margin .

Koizumi reported that the 32-year-old Romanian looked dominant and aggressive throughout the monotonous contest while Kameda?s severe reduction of weight caused the 21 year old champion to be too sluggish to throw many punches only to retaliate with a punch at a time.

Koizumi said he felt Oltenau was robbed adding that he had seen many great world flyweight title bouts since a Pascual Perez-Kenji Yonekura title go in 1959 ? but can definitely say that this Kameda-Oltianu bout was the technically worst and lowest title bout. It is a shame to call such a technically poor fight as a world title bout. It must be an insult to Jimmy Wilde, Pancho Villa, Pascual Perez, Pone Kingpetch, Yoshio Shirai, Fighting Harada, Hiroyuki Ebihara, Alacran Efren Torres, Chartchai Chionoi, Masao Ohba, Betulio Gonzalez, Erbito Salavarria, Shoji Oguma, Miguel Canto, Chanhee Park, Santos Laciar, Sot Chitalada.?

In a blistering comment Koizumi said ?it is shameful to call such a poor boxer world flyweight champion after such a technically poor bout.? He begged the WBA to ?review this fight at your office to see whether it was worth being called a world title bout.?

Koizumi said he gave only three rounds (the second, eighth and ninth) to Kameda, and all others to Oltianu. Whether my view was right or not?it should be detected and discussed by the WBA headquarters on reviewing it on a tape, adding ?please don?t downgrade the status of professional boxing any longer by declaring Daiki Kameda the winner and world champion.?


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