The WBA Championships Committee ordered a super bantamweight eliminator bout between Japan’s Tomoki Kameda and former two-belt champion Murodjon Akhmadaliev (pictured). The official communication was sent on Friday, August 18th to both teams, granting them thirty days to negotiate the bout. Kameda is ranked #1 by the WBA. Kameda (40-3) held the WBO bantamweight title from 2013-2014. After moving up to super bantam, he failed in a 2019 title bid vs. Rey Vargas. Akhmadaliev (14-3 including the World Series of Boxing) is ranked #2 after losing his WBA and IBF titles to Marlon Tapales earlier this year. Tapales still holds those two belts, while the other two belts are around the waist of Naoya Inoue.

 

Should both contenders fail to reach an agreement within the time limit or should either party refuse to sign the fight, the WBA may call for a purse bid with a 50/50 purse split for each fighter.