Comments Thread For: Herring: I'd Love To Face Frampton On St. Patrick's Day In New York

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With his first title defense now out of the way, Jamel Herring can now look to the future. What the junior lightweight titlist doesn't hope to see is another empty line of willing divisional peers to face him in the ring. The 34-year old southpaw from the Coram section of Long Island, New York turned away mandatory challenger Lamont Roach Jr. in gutting out a 12-round points win Saturday evening at Chukchansi Park in Fresno, California. The ESPN+ streamed headliner came about primarily due to Herring's inability to entice any of the other junior lightweight beltholders into the ring, namely a unification bout with Miguel Berchelt that he thought for sure was in the works following his own title win this past May.
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I remember militant “irish”-Americans would respond to Wayne McCullough as if he was their shining hero from Ireland, they used to shout all manner of provisional support for him....yet they had no understanding that like frampton, Wayne wasn’t a Catholic.....I love my adopted country but you can always count on folk here to be totally oblivious to geo-political semantics