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Jamel William Herring (born October 30, 1985) is an American
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who held the
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title from 2019 to 2021.


Early life

Herring was born in
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, to Michael Mitchell and Jeanine Herring. His mother remarried to Harry Elliby. He was raised in
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, in its Gordon Heights neighborhood. While a sophomore at
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, Jamel began boxing in 2001 when his soon to become trainer Austin Hendrickson invited him to the boxing gym for workouts. Herring enlisted in the
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in October 2003 at
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, South Carolina. He has served two tours of duty in Iraq and was based in
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, North Carolina, where he earned the rank of Sergeant.


Amateur career

Herring began training in 2001. He suffered his first amateur loss to Daniel Jacobs on July 20, 2002, during the New York Junior Olympics Finals. Herring had to balance training as a boxer with his duties as an active
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. He was deployed to
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, Iraq in 2005. After he returned he immediately tried out for the All Marine Corps boxing team in January 2006. While on the team, Herring competed all over the national scene and even fought against former world champion Jesse Vargas at the 2006 National PAL tournament. He was deployed again in 2007 to Al Taqaddum. Shortly after his return, he went back to the All Marine Corps boxing team in
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,
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. From early 2008, he would be trained under Ron Simms, Reuben Woodruff, and Narcisco Aleman. Simms would eventually be replaced by former All Army coach and 1996 USA Olympic Assistant coach Jesse Ravelo. Herring won a silver medal at the 2010 World Military Games and took a gold medal at the 2011 and 2012 Armed Forces Championships while a Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps. Trained under Ravelo, Woodruff, and Aleman, Jamel would win gold in the 2012 Olympic Trials defeating multiple nationals champions. In the first round of the tournament he defeated Tommy Duquette, Mike Reed in the second round, Pedro Sosa in the semi-finals, and in the finals he defeated Pedro Sosa again. He would eventually move on to the 2011 AIBA World Championships but lost in a close contest in the first round, forcing him to fight for his spot again at the 2012 USA Boxing Nationals. After winning the Nationals, he went on to compete in the Americas Qualifiers where he would win a bronze medal and earn a slot at the 2012 games. Herring qualified for the
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. Jamel, along with the entire US boxing team, only had two weeks prior to the games to train together as a complete team. He was the only United States Marine to compete at the London Olympics and the first active duty marine to qualify for the US boxing team since 1992.


Professional career

After returning from the London games, Herring made the decision to finish out his service with the United States Marine Corps and become a professional boxer. He relocated from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, to
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,
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, to work with Mike Stafford. In May 2019, he became a world champion by defeating Masayuki Ito to win the WBO junior lightweight title. Herring outboxed Ito in front of the sold-out crowd, winning almost every round of the fight on two judges' scorecards, and 66 percent of the rounds on the third judge's. Scorecards were 118-110, 118-110 and 116-112 in favor of Herring. In his first title defense, Herring faced Lamont Roach Jr. Herring boxed well through most of the fight, but Roach Jr was far from an easy opponent. Herring was almost dropped by Roach Jr in the ninth round, but managed to recover just before the bell. In the end, he had done enough to earn the unanimous decision win, 117-111 twice and 115-113 on the scorecards. His second title defense came against Jonathan Oquendo, on September 5, 2020, after two previously canceled dates, both because Herring tested positive for
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. Herring was in control during the fight, and was landing the more effective shots. Herring managed to drop Oquendo in the third round. The aggressive Oquendo was going head first in multiple occasions during the fight, which ultimately resulted in a cut above Herring's eye. Herring was not able to continue after the eighth round and his corner decided he is unable to continue. In September 2020, it was announced that Herring had signed a contract with management and promotions company MTK Global, with the company taking an advisory role. Herring said of the decision, "I'm very excited about this next step in my career. I know that by adding MTK Global as an advisor along with Brian McIntyre as my manager, I have the strongest team in the game." On April 3, 2021, Herring defeated former two-division champion
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in
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, United Arab Emirates via sixth-round technical knockout to retain his WBO title. Herring's victory over Frampton would ultimately be the last fight of the latter's career, who retired soon after. Herring lost his title in his subsequent fight on October 23, 2021, against undefeated former WBO featherweight champion
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, when he was defeated via tenth-round technical knockout. Herring was behind on all three judges' scorecards at the time of the stoppage. He retired in May 2022.


Professional boxing record


Personal life

Herring has six children: Kamren Herring (2004), Stephen Herring (2007), Ariyanah Herring (2009), Jamel Herring Jr. (2010), Jazmyne Herring (2013), and Justice Herring (2017). His daughter Ariyanah died July 27, 2009, from
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. The opening ceremony of the
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was the 3rd anniversary of her death. He married his childhood friend Jennifer Dickerson-Herring on September 26, 2015.


Legal issues

On January 9, 2025 Herring was arrested by the City of Mason (Ohio) Police Department after an incident was reported the day before by his wife Jennifer. The charge he was arrested for was assault and domestic violence. He remained in custody at Warren County Jail. The incident occurred on January 4 at 2 a.m. after Herring entered their home “extremely intoxicated” and started to bully Jennifer, in relation to marital issues. The police report read, ''“‘viciously’ attacking her by punching her all over her body, pulled her hair and threw her across the room. … Mrs. Herring then stated Mr. Herring choked her … and she felt he was going to kill her because she had trouble breathing.”'' A court date was set for January 21. Jennifer dropped the charges in February, but applied for a permanent restraining order against Jamel, which he broke on March 18, 2025 and arrested on two charges, one of them being ' violation of a protective order'.


See also

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List of world super-featherweight boxing champions This is a list of Super featherweight boxing champions, as recognized by boxing organizations: * The World Boxing Association (WBA), established in 1921 as the National Boxing Association (NBA). * The World Boxing Council (WBC), established in 19 ...


References


External links

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