Season 2: #6 Jamel Herring

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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WBO super-featherweight champion Jamel Herring has seen the highs and the lows. He's mixed triumph and tragedy. As a US Marine he completed two tours of Iraq, his first born arrived while he was away, he lost a daughter and a niece to SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) but now is one of the hottest properties in the sport. He's part of Terence Crawford's team and the two have become firm friends. The captain of the US 2012 Olympic boxing team in London, Herring has been written off time and again but he's unquenchable deserve and motivation to be the best serves to drive him on. Here, he talks about how he was inspired in his battle with alcohol and PTSD by Tyson Fury, amateur fights with the likes of Danny Jacobs and Josh Taylor, splitting with Al Haymon and joining Top Rank and potential rivals, including Carl Frampton and Josh Warrington.

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0:19.7	The day you graduated from boot camp, I'll shake your hand and I'll tell you that I'm proud.
0:25.3	And he didn't. When I graduated from the Marine Corps, he did it. He did just that.
0:30.7	And I think since then, our relationship has actually been stronger, you know, in adulthood than it was when I was a child.
0:39.0	There was a female marine at night. It was at night. Like she was smoking a cigarette and you know when you when she inhaled of course the cigarette lights up and that's what the sniper was actually focusing it on and that's when she got shot and killed just from having the smoke.
0:57.0	Because I didn't care for anything at one point in time, I just didn't care.
1:04.0	But it took my family and then my fellow Marines to get me out of that slump.
1:10.0	And that's why when you see me fight, I always have her name on my trunks because I never wouldn't I was looking I was looking at things like how would she look at me if she's seen this today and I named one hundred to think that I was a quitter so I know I had
1:24.6	to basically dust myself off and get back into the swing of things. I don't
1:30.6	do anything everything that I've been through boxing to me is therapeutic
1:34.4	boxing is the easy part it's not easy sport but if you compare it to over being
1:41.2	overseas and seeing in combat action boxing is you know anyone
1:47.6	over there would trade you know going through those horrors for
1:51.3	getting the ring. Oh, Hello, this is Boxing Life Stories and I'm Trist Dixon. My guest this week is
2:19.2	reigning WBO's Super Featherweight champion of the world, Jamel Herring.
2:23.4	I've wanted to talk to Jamel for a long, long time.
2:26.9	As a marine he did two tours of Iraq.
2:29.2	He captained the US boxing team at the 2012 Olympics.
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