Jamel Herring retained his WBO Junior Lightweight title at The Rotunda Kaiser Palace Bluewaters in Dubai on Saturday with Carl Frampton’s sixth-round halt.
Frampton said before the fight that he would retire from the game if he was unable to take the title from the 35-year-old Herring, and Frampton did exactly that after his loss.
5-10 Herring was looking for a fight that would give him the respect he desperately wanted. The solution was to face the former two-time champion.
Herring used his height and reached advantage to keep Frampton at the end of his jab, as he drove away whenever the Irish fighter drew a pass. It seemed that Frampton was slowly turning the tide on the herring in the third round as he worked on the body and opened a cut above the former Marine’s right eye.
Frampton seemed to have cracked the code using his own pressure to close the gap. Unfortunately, he paid the price for his confidence as he went straight to the left hand which put him in the fourth round.
He never gets well.
Herring alleviated the pressure and landed a BV of power shots in the fifth round as Frampton desperately wished to find his way into the fight. Acknowledging that he would be unable to win a boxing match, Frampton attempted to turn the fight into a brawl, but Herring was confident and ready to land his attacking opponent.
This ending occurred when Frampton dipped his head and slammed his face into a perfectly timed herring uppercase. Frampton sank on the canvas and it appeared that the fight had ended at that point. Somehow, “The Jackal” made it to his feet and got into herring on instinct. Herring allowed his reckless opponent to land a lucky shot and then picked him up with a series of power shots, eventually throwing Frampton’s corner into the towel at 1:40 in the sixth.
Herring later stepped into the weight class, but was also bothered by the idea of a unification bout with WBC Junior Lightweight Champion Oscar Valdez.
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