Jamel Herring wins the BKFC World bantamweight championship
Former WBO junior lightweight boxing champion Jamel Herring became the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC) World Bantamweight champion. The post Jamel Herring wins the BKFC World bantamweight championship appeared first on New York Amsterdam News.
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Former WBO junior lightweight boxing champion Jamel Herring, a native of Rockville Center, N.Y., in Hempstead, Long Island, became the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC) World Bantamweight champion on Friday at BKFC 89 Palm Desert (California) by convincingly defeating Michael Larrimore 50-44 on all three scorecards.
With the win, the 40-year-old former Marine became the second former boxing champion to win a BKFC title, joining Austin Trout. It was only Herring’s second BKFC fight after making his debut in January.
The historic victory was extra-special because it came three days before Memorial Day, and May 25 has added significance for Herring.
He won his first boxing title on May 25, 2019, on what would have been his daughter’s 10th birthday, and Friday’s victory came right before she would have turned 17.
“My daughter (Ariyanah) passed away at two months (on July 27, 2009) from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS),” he shared. “So obviously, it is just like deja vu all over again…[winning the championship is] another gift to her.”
On Saturday, unified heavyweight boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk (25-0, 16 KOs) knocked out former kickboxing champion Rico Verhoeven in the 11th round in a fight that was more competitive than expected in Giza, Egypt.
Earlier in the evening on the same card, Hamzah Sheeraz (23-1-1, 19 KOs), who upset Brooklyn native Edgar Berlanga with a fifth-round knockout in Queens last July, defeated Alem Begic by knockout in the second round. Sheeraz, a Muslim of Pakistani and Indian descent, challenged Mexican boxing superstar Canelo Alvarez after his win, who will challenge WBC super-middleweight champion Christian Mbilli on September 12.
Three high-stakes boxing matches take place on Saturday, May 30, in different cities. Boxing superstar Amanda Serrano, who headlined an all-women’s fight card at Madison Square Garden in July 2025, will defend her WBA and WBO women’s featherweight titles against Cheyenne Hanson in El Paso, Texas. WBC junior lightweight champion O’Shaquie Foster will face Raymond Ford in Houston.
WBA and IBF light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol, who avenged the only loss of his career in February 2025 when he handed Artur Beterbiev the first loss of his career, will face Michael Eifert in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
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