Jamel Herring might be making his bare-knuckle boxing debut over the weekend, and a BKFC title challenger has weighed in on the gloved boxer’s looming foray into gloveless fight. Dustin Pague is the combatant in query and can struggle for Julian Lane’s welterweight belt on the BKFC Mohegan Solar card within the headline attraction over prime of Herring’s bare-knuckle debut.
The Olympic boxer and former WBO junior light-weight champion is dropping the gloves for January seventeenth when he takes on Matt Guymon. Whereas Guymon has had a number of aggressive efforts inside bare-knuckle boxing, this would be the first time on this surging fight sport for ‘Semper Fi’ as Herring goals to make an affect on this new sport. When it was referenced that Jamel Herring’s bout was an attention-grabbing struggle on this card, Pague stated [via Bare Knuckle Bowker],
“Yeah, completely. He’s sharp. I used to be trying up a few of his movies at present, really. He’s a pointy boxer. I’m excited to see him take the gloves off and put within the work.”
For Herring in BKFC, Pague desires to “see that unfold and see how he adapts to it”
One’s first struggle in BKFC generally is a telling second, with some leaning too closely into no matter their prior base was and never adapting their sport sufficient to the distinctive concerns of bare-knuckle. When pertaining to the Herring state of affairs being a little bit of a microcosm by way of how a lot the debut naked knuckle effort will be such a telling second for one’s trajectory within the sport thereafter, Pague acknowledged [via Bare Knuckle Bowker],
“Yeah, completely. It’s positively thrilling to see that unfold and see how he adapts to it. However, like Austin Trout did a terrific job of the transition. So possibly he might need picked his mind somewhat bit or, you recognize, has been gearing up for this for longer than we we predict, so. Yeah, positively attention-grabbing to see.”
