Jamel Herring retained his gold at BKFC 95, however his boss isn’t thrilled about his efficiency.
Herring met John Dodson on this previous Saturday’s headliner in Newark. Herring, a former world champion in conventional boxing, entered BKFC 95 because the promotion’s bantamweight champion. Simply forward of battle night time, BKFC president David Feldman revealed the top of the flyweight division. Dodson was the flyweight champion and he would’ve been introduced with two belts had he defeated Herring.
Finally, Herring scored the break up determination win, using the jab that earned him success as a standard boxer. For Feldman, the motion was lackluster, and he isn’t hiding his emotions about what transpired. In the course of the BKFC 95 post-fight scrum, Feldman stated he expects extra from Herring in his subsequent outing (through Bloody Elbow).
“I feel you guys respect that I’m all the time sincere and I’ll say that I used to be disgusted by the principle occasion tonight,” Feldman stated. “I didn’t prefer it. I get boxing, I get being technical however throwing one shot at a time? Pot shotting? Probably not participating?
“That’s not what we’re doing, we’re Naked Knuckle Combating Championship, not ‘Naked Knuckle Boxing’. We’re there to see a battle and I don’t assume that we noticed a battle. I do assume that John Dodson tried to create a battle.
“Jamel Herring is an outstanding boxer however I feel he has received to throw extra punches and provides us just a little bit extra motion in future.”
Feldman has lengthy touted BKFC for its thrilling motion and excessive knockout charge, however Herring was by no means often known as an influence puncher. His ring IQ, velocity, and technical boxing has lengthy been his id, however Feldman clearly thinks there’s extra that “Semper Fi” can do.
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