Uchiyama (20-0-1), who is defending his title for the eitgth time, and third time as the main card in New Year Eve boxing card, this time Daiki Kaneko (19-2-3) is the challenger.

The judges are Takeo Harada, Takashi Shimakawa and Kazunobuo Asao. The supervisor will be Renzo Bagnariol.

Uchiyama win the title on January 11, 2010 when he defeated by TKO the Mexican Juan Carlos Salgado.