Daiki Kameda

Daiki Kameda arrived in public life as part of a package deal: the loud Osaka boxing family, the older brother, the television spectacle. For years the discussion around him was about volume rather than boxing, and in 2007 his repeated fouls in a world-title loss to Daisuke Naito earned him a one-year license suspension, and being the middle brother in that story meant he was rarely evaluated on his own terms. The record deserves better than that. He held the WBA flyweight title from 2010 to 2011 and the IBF super-flyweight title from 2013 to 2014, which makes him a two-division world champion across a professional career that ran from 2006 to 2015. Promotion can buy you attention and a shot; it cannot buy you belts in two weight classes. I think he is a useful reminder that the noise surrounding an athlete and the quality of the athlete are separate measurements, and that we are usually much better at remembering the first one.

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Name (English)

Daiki Kameda

Name (Japanese)

亀田大毅

Reading

かめだ だいき

Born

January 6, 1989 (age 37)

Origin

Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

boxer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Snake

Awards & achievements

• IBF World Junior Bantamweight Champion
• WBA World Flyweight Champion

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daiki%20Kameda
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BA%80%E7%94%B0%E5%A4%A7%E6%AF%85
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q786488

Tags

• Osaka Prefecture
• boxer

Last updated

September 29, 2026

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