WBA bantamweight champion Koki Kameda (27-1, 17 KOs) defends his title against number eleven ranked Nouldy Manakane (24-10, 15 KOs) at the Yokohama Arena in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. 
Over an 8-year-career Kameda has won titles in three divisions; the jr. flyweight division, flyweight division, and now as a bantamweight. After turning pro in December of 2003, Kameda won the vacant WBA jr. flyweight title against Juan Jose Landaeta in August of 2006. After one defense against Landaeta, Kameda moved up to the flyweight division where he would take the WBC flyweight title from Saisuke Naito. He lost his title in his first defense against Pongsaklek Wonjongkam and moved up to the bantamweight division to capture another vacant WBA title with a win over former super flyweight titlist Alexander Munoz. After two defenses against overmatched, WBA-approved opposition from Latin America, Kameda defends his title against Indonesian bantamweight champion Manakane.
Manakane lost four of the first five fights in his career, with two coming against more experienced competition. The trend of losing to experienced competition would continue throughout the rest of his career, when in his thirteenth professional fight he was knocked out by Hussein Hussein in Australia. Since losing three straight in 2009, Manakane has won seven in a row against novice competitors whose records combined were 37-13-1.
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