Oscar Valdez: record, next fight and profile →
WBO Super Featherweight World Title Jamel Herring will serve as a guest commentator on Ring City USA’s Thursday night telecast, live from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. and around the United States on NBC Sports Network.
The hope for Jamel Herring is to follow up the most notable win of his career with his biggest challenge to date. Whether or not it results in a title unification clash remains to be seen, although not the driving force behind the direction he next heads.
Jamel Herring respects and appreciates what the WBO has done for his career. The WBO junior lightweight champion still doesn’t intend to allow a mandatory title defense against Shakur Stevenson stand in the way of the fight Herring really wants now that he has beaten Carl Frampton. If that means giving up his WBO belt to oppose Oscar Valdez later this year, Herring has no problem taking that route.
Former WBO featherweight champion Shakur Stevenson believes that he's physically capable of becoming a five division world champion. Stevenson is currently competing at super featherweight and wants to secure a world title fight sooner than later.
Oscar Valdez views the Jamel Herring-Carl Frampton fight like lots of experts and fans. The WBC super featherweight champion could see either Herring or Frampton emerging victorious Saturday night in Dubai. Oddsmakers have made Frampton a slight favorite entering their 12-round, 130-pound fight for Herring’s WBO junior lightweight title.
Carl Frampton has support from an unlikely quarter as he bids to become Ireland’s first three-weight world champion this weekend. The popular Belfastman will be cheered on by former opponent Scott Quigg, the man he shared a ring with in 2016, when he challenges WBO super-featherweight champion Jamel Herring.
As much as Oscar Valdez wants to silence Shakur Stevenson, he also is motivated to capitalize financially on his career-changing victory over Miguel Berchelt as much as possible.
Former 126-pound champion Shakur Stevenson wants to make a splash in the super featherweight division by squaring off with the division’s newly crowned champion. Oscar Valdez, who scored the knockout and upset of the year last month over Miguel Berchelt last month to capture the 130-pound WBC crown, apparently has sparked the Newark native’s appetite for a palatable fight.
On February 20th in Las Vegas, it was quite a victory for newly crowned WBC super featherweight world champion Oscar Valdez (29-0, 23 KOs). Not only did he beat Miguel Berchelt in a fight he wasn’t favored to win, he did it in spectacular fashion.
Eddy Reynoso has presided over Canelo Alvarez’s career as the pupil’s lifelong coach and helped mold the Mexican fighter into the boxing superstar that he’s become today. If you ask the 44-year-old trainer what his proudest performance is as a professional, Reynoso will point to a fighter he’s only coached since 2018 in Oscar Valdez, the newly crowned WBC junior lightweight champion of the world.