If you thought you’d seen the last of the Kameda family, I’ve news for you. They’re back. I know. I’ve missed them too.

The demure, urbane and modest Koki Kameda, it has been announced, will return to the ring on March 22 for a non-title bout with Spanish flyweight Jose Lopez Bueno at Makuhari Messe in Chiba.

Koki’s been in ‘media exile’ since the whole family’s shameful display during younger brother Daiki’s now infamous fight last October.

Have to say it doesn’t sound like exciting fare, more like target practice. Don’t know much about Jose Lopez Bueno, except that he’s 33 (12 years older than Kameda) and doesn’t have what you’d call a sparkling record (42 fights, won 29, lost 9, drawn 4). Is he one of these “washed up palookas” that JP was referring to?

Daddy won’t be ringside of course, he’s still banned, but whether we’ll see return of the media circus that inevitably ensued whenever a Kameda was present, well that’s another matter entirely and remains to be seen.