Herring overcome with emotion. This is why we love boxing.#ItoHerring pic.twitter.com/N3KWTSvnV3
— Top Rank Boxing (@trboxing) May 26, 2019Jamel Herring Takes Masayuki Ito’s Title via Unanimous Decision
You didn’t really think Iraq war veteran and former Marine Jamel “Semper Fi” Herring was going to lose on Memorial Day Weekend, did you? In a fight which he dedicated to his daughter, who would be turning ten on fight night, had she not died of SIDS as a baby? You didn’t, did you?
After entering the ring, accompanied by a crowd of Marines (whom he individually thanked before the fight, lest you think it was an empty publicity stunt), Herring thoroughly outboxed Masayuki “The Judge” Ito (who entered the ring holding a gavel).