BELFAST/London/fans/no fans… It’s all the same to Jamel Herring who is supremely confident that he will beat Carl Frampton in next month’s super-featherweight world title battle.
The American champion was originally scheduled to meet Frampton at Windsor Park in July but that bill was scrapped in an effort to halt the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Six months on, the fight will now take place in London and Herring regards the change of venue as a blow to Frampton’s chances.
“I have no preference. I would have been happy to fight in Belfast or London with fans in attendance,” Herring told The Irish News.
“We all know that I was the one who agreed to go to Belfast to begin with, I agreed to that. I’ve never said that I don’t want to go there because it’s his backyard; I’m not that type of character.
“That tells you where my belief in my ability is and Carl Frampton doesn’t know what I am at my best when it’s time to get in there.
“I would have loved to have come to Belfast with the fans there because I believe that Irish fans, and UK fans as well, bring the best atmosphere to any fight. I think they (the promoters) were trying to give him that (home) advantage, if you really look at it.
“It wasn’t going to be an advantage to me to fight in Belfast but I didn’t mind it. He may need the atmosphere to pump him up and get him going but when you take that out of the equation, all you have is two men in the ring and we’ll settle our differences there.”
