Brandon Figueroa’s featherweight title reign is over without a single protection.
Figueroa missed the 126-pound championship restrict by 1.4 kilos, weighing 127.4 kilos on the first attempt for his WBA championship protection against Tomoki Kameda on Saturday in Las Vegas.
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Figueroa did not weigh in a second time within the permitted one-hour restrict, although he unofficially tipped the scales at 126.8 kilos after the allotted time.
The Figueroa-Kameda battle will still go forward in the co-feature to Sebastian Fundora vs. Ermal Hadribeaj at The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan, however the belt will only be up for grabs for Kameda.
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The Fundora vs. Hadribeaj occasion marks the fourth in DAZN and TNT’s “The Fight” sequence, which makes an attempt to showcase championship boxing to a mass viewers in the United States.
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Figueroa (27-2-1, 20 KOs) knocked out Nick Ball in February in Liverpool, England, to seize the belt. He is a two-weight world champion, having beforehand held the WBC featherweight title from 2024-2025 and the WBC tremendous bantamweight belt in 2021.
Kameda (42-5, 23 KOs) was a world champion more than a decade in the past, having held the WBO bantamweight crown from 2013 to 2014.
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