Incoming: Jamel Herring Prepares for Lamont Roach

[thenonpareil]

No phrase is more pertinent to the life and career of Jamel Herring than semper fidelis, Latin for “always loyal,” and the moral code that the US Marine Corps—the organization in which Herring grew up—adheres to with great honor.

It’s fitting, then, that the other combat discipline that has consumed Herring’s cinematic life, boxing, bears witness to his nickname, “Semper Fi.” Between the ring and the sandy, bleak setting of Iraq, Herring has seen it all.

But it was in boxing that Herring found his calling after thirty-four years filled with agony, elation, and daze. “Boxing came first,” Herring says. “I began boxing when I was fifteen years old. I got into the Marines when I was about seventeen, going on eighteen years old.

“It was a hobby to keep me off the streets, and it was something to do. As time went on and I saw that I was getting better and hanging with the best, I started getting a sense of maybe I can go further with this career. I was always a good kid. to keep fit and . . . to avoid getting into trouble."


https://hannibalboxing.com/incoming-jam ... ont-roach/

[margaret thatcher]

Didn't know that he was in the marines, that hasn't got much coverage