12 Rounds of Christmas: Kono vs Kameda - Round 9

Round 9 features a pair of 115-pound Japanese dynamos in Kohei Kono and Koki Kameda, who laid waste to the notion that smaller fighters can’t throw bombs like the big boys. Kono and Kameda actually pummeled each other for 12 entertaining rounds in their title fight on October 16, but the ninth was particularly loaded with action and drama. Kameda gets credit for the best punch of the round, a left hook about a minute in that landed flush on the chin and sent Kono backward. However, Kameda was unable to