First the Belt, Now the Fight: Figueroa Falls Ill After Weight Cut, Kameda Bout Cancelled

First the belt. Now the fight.

Brandon Figueroa vs. Tomoki Kameda, the co-feature on tonight's Sebastian Fundora card at The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, is off. Figueroa has withdrawn, a day after he lost his WBA featherweight title on the scale.

The reason, according to the people who'd know: he got sick. Dan Rafael reported, per a source, that Figueroa became ill Friday night after the weight cut that caused him to miss weight. BoxingScene says an official told them Figueroa got "very sick" after weighing in. The Ring's Keith Idec was first with the withdrawal, and The Ring says the bout has been cancelled.

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Quick recap if you're just catching up. Figueroa came in at 127.4 pounds Friday, 1.4 over the featherweight limit, for what was supposed to be the first defense of the belt he won from Nick Ball in February. He was stripped, and the setup became simple: if Kameda won, Kameda became champion; if Figueroa won, the title stayed vacant. We broke that down here: Lost It on the Scale.

Now nobody wins it tonight. The WBA featherweight title stays vacant, and nobody has said yet what happens next with it.

You have to feel for Kameda. The 35-year-old from Osaka (42-5, 23 KOs) made weight, did everything right, and hasn't fought since his majority-decision loss to Angelo Leo for the IBF title in May 2025. He flew to Las Vegas as the only man in the fight who could leave with a belt. He leaves with nothing but a weigh-in result. There's been no word on a replacement opponent or a new date, and we're not going to guess.

For Figueroa (27-2-1, 20 KOs), this is the second straight bad headline in 24 hours. Missing weight costs you the belt. Getting so sick from the cut that you can't fight the next night raises a different question: can he still make 126 at all? He's been talking about Rafael Espinoza and big nights at featherweight, with Naoya Inoue headed up to the division. Those conversations just got a lot harder.

Mike Coppinger summed up the card on X: "This undercard has been snake-bitten. Charlo also withdrew weeks ago."

The main event is still on, as far as anybody has reported. Fundora defends his WBC 154-pound title against Ermal Hadribeaj, with the main card at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT on TNT and DAZN. If you haven't yet, make your picks on Boxbid for Fundora-Hadribeaj and tonight's Dubois-Wardley 2. Guess the rounds right and the points are yours. We'll update this story if PBC or the Nevada commission puts out anything official.