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Indonesia's Nouldy Ready to Box World Champ in Japan
Ami Afriatni | February 15, 2012

Indonesian bantamweight Nouldy Manakane will challenge Koki Kameda in Yokohama, Japan, on April 4. (Agency Photo) Indonesian bantamweight Nouldy Manakane will challenge Koki Kameda in Yokohama, Japan, on April 4. (Agency Photo)
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Nouldy Manakane is out to show people that there’s more to Indonesian boxing than Chris John.

The 28-year-old Nouldy will have his shot at a world title when he takes on World Boxing Association bantamweight champion Koki Kameda in Yokohama, Japan, on April. 4.

Nouldy said he would not waste what could be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

“Since I was a kid I’ve dreamed of being a boxing world champion just like Ellyas Pical,” the Maluku-born fighter said on Wednesday. “So I will fight hard there in Japan to win [Kameda’s] crown.”

Ellyas became the country’s first boxing world champion when he won the International Boxing Federation super flyweight title by knocking out defending champion Chun Ju-do of South Korea in 1985.

“I want to put Maluku’s name back on the world’s boxing scene and make Indonesia proud of me,” Nouldy said.

Though this is his first shot at a world title, Nouldy, who has a 24-10-1 record with 15 KOs, holds the Pan Asian Boxing Association’s bantamweight title.

Nouldy earned the title with a second-round technical knockout of Wisanlek Sor Suchanya of Thailand in an interim fight at Long Reef Sports Hall in Ambon on Nov. 7, 2009.

He has defended the belt five times since, with the latest title bout being against Lookdiaw Tor Buamas last Oct. 2. He knocked out the Thai in the third round.

Kameda, with a record of 27-1-0, including 17 KOs, represents the biggest fight of Nouldy’s nine-year professional career and his toughest opponent.

“I’ve been training really hard for the bout and even harder in the past three weeks. I have my chance and I will use it well,” said Nouldy , who has been training at the Elang Hitam Boxing Camp in East Jakarta.

“I’ve also been watching video of [Kameda’s] bouts over the past 14 months to learn his style.”

His coach, Errol van Room, said that if Nouldy could keep up with Kameda for the first seven rounds, he would have a chance to win the bout.

“The problem right now is the fact that Kameda is a left-handed boxer,” van Room said. “So right now we are still looking for left-handed Indonesian fighters to spar with Nouldy.”

Nouldy will leave for Japan on March 28. If he wins the bout, he will become Indonesia’s second reigning world champion, after the WBA featherweight super champion Chris, who has defended his belt 15 times since winning it from Oscar Leon of Colombia in 2003.

It is what he has been fighting for his whole life.