Casimero needs to clean up his act

FORMER three-division world champion John Riel Casimero was supposed to breeze past Japanese Kyonosuke Kameda with the ease of a tank trampling dilapidated shanties. As it turned, Casimero stepped on a banana peel, slipped, and dropped a 10-round unanimous decision to Kameda. Going into the fight, Casimero needed an impressive victory. Casimero had been out of action for a year, having been suspended by the Japan Boxing Commission (JBC) in October 2024 after he again failed to make the contracted weight in a fight against Saul Sanchez. In the one year that he was out of commission, Casimero was dropped from the rankings by boxing’s organizing bodies, most notably the World Boxing...