Bad boy Luis Nery and opponent Kyonosuke Kameda get physical ahead of February 22

Mexican bad boy Luis Nery and his opponent on February 22 Kyonosuke Kameda had to be separated after they went head-to-head to promote their upcoming fight in Tijuana.

Nery, in a gray track top and Kameda, wearing an all-white tracksuit with a white bandana obscuring his face from the nose down, bristled before their encounter then became physical. 

Nery pushed his Japanese opponent away, for space, and then threw a left and a right that resulted in Kameda trying to come forward, only for him to be marshalled back by security.

Kameda, 26 years old and from Osaka, has a significant height advantage over Nery and is 15-3-2 (9 KOs). The veteran Nery, who has not fought since being stopped in six rounds in the Tokyo Dome by Naoya Inoue in May 2024, is 35-2 (27 KOs).

Nery, 30, has, in the past, admitted to his role as playing the villain ahead of his fights, and told BoxingScene, post-Inoue: “I’m still a bad boy.”