Boxing-Figueroa loses WBA featherweight title after missing weight

Oct 16 (Reuters) American Brandon Figueroa has been stripped of his WBA featherweight title ​after hitting the scales ‌1.4 pounds over the 126-pound weight limit for Saturday s fight against Tomoki Kameda of Japan, organisers said ‌on ​Friday. Kameda, 35, ⁠will be able to ⁠clinch the vacant title if he wins the fight, which will go ahead as ​scheduled in Las Vegas. Honestly, it s disrespectful, because I m here, ⁠I suffered too. ⁠I did my thing. ​I m ready for tomorrow, Kameda ​said, speaking via a translator. It has ‌been 18 months since I fought, but look at me, look how shredded I ⁠am. You know I m ready. Everything remains the same, I m going for ⁠the ‌title tomorrow. Figueroa, 29, clinched ⁠the featherweight title in ​February ‌after beating Briton Nick ​Ball ⁠in Liverpool. If he wins the fight against Kameda, the title will remain vacant. (Reporting by Aadi Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by ​Sam Holmes)