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Carl Frampton believes he and Jamel Herring will get title fight ‘sorted’

Carl Frampton still feels confident that he’ll get his title shot against Jamel Herring late this year.

Carl Frampton and Jamel Herring, in particular, have had a challenging 2020.

Frampton had been preparing to face Vahram Vardanyan on Saturday, but those plans changed last week when the Armenian boxer ran into visa issues and was denied entry into England.

Meanwhile, Herring, the a junior lightweight titleholder, had separate positive COVID-19 results that twice postponed his fight against Jonathan Oquendo. Herring is now set to face Oquendo on Sept. 5.

All this being said, Frampton, who will now face Darren Traynor on Saturday, still feels confident that he’ll get that title shot against Herring late this year.

“[Herring’s in] exactly the same boat as me in terms of mishaps and things gone wrong,” Frampton recently said on “Boxing with Chris Mannix”. “It hasn’t been a great year.

“I feel extremely sorry for (Herring), and I understand what it’s like, and I know Jamel, like myself, he trains away from home,” he continued. “He leaves his family and he goes and trains. He leaves his children and wife behind. I’m sure it would almost feel like a wasted time away from family. It’s got to be hard to deal with.”

He added: “I don’t know him personally, but the impression I have of him is that he’s mentally a very strong person, and I’m pretty sure he’ll be able to deal with it. I feel like I’m a mentally strong person. I think we’ll get it sorted.”

Frampton (27-2, 15 KOs) hasn’t fought since he shut out Tyler McCreary on Nov. 30. Herring (21-2, 10 KOs) successfully defended his title against Lamont Roach on Nov. 9.

Jamel Herring vs. Carl Frampton could happen in November: report

The Jamel Herring-Carl Frampton fight that was canceled because of the coronavirus could resurface in November.

Promoter Bob Arum, who promotes Herring and co-promotes Frampton, told BoxingScene.com that he doesn’t know exactly when or where it will take place because of the pandemic but he believes we’ll see it if they win their interim fights.

Herring, who has recovered from the coronavirus, is scheduled to defend his junior lightweight title against Jonathan Oquendo on Tuesday inside the MGM Grand bubble in Las Vegas. He reportedly is a 14-1 favorite.

Frampton is scheduled to return to the ring on Aug. 15 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. His opponent hasn’t been selected.

“Don’t ask me where, with all these travel bans and everything else,” Arum said. “But [Herring-Frampton] will happen. The plan is to do it in November. … I think it’s a terrific fight. Both guys think they’re gonna win the fight easy. So, we’ll see.”

Herring (21-2, 10 KOs) was scheduled to face Frampton (27-2, 15 KOs) on June 13 in Belfast, the Irishman’s hometown, but then the sport was shut down.

Jamel Herring set to defend junior lightweight title in July

Jamel Herring reportedly will be one of the first big-name opponents to return to the ring amid the coronavirus threat.

The junior lightweight titleholder will defend his title on July 2 in Las Vegas, he told ESPN. No opponent has been selected. Herring had been tentatively set to face former two-division beltholder Carl Frampton in Northern Ireland but that fight fell out because of the pandemic.

The site also hasn’t been finalized, although it will be a MGM Resorts property.

“It’s fluid,” said Carl Moretti, director of boxing operations for Top Rank. “We’re on calls every day with stuff. So what we thought was happening on Tuesday is not, and what we thought was happening on Wednesday is now happening. So it just changes and changes.”

Herring (21-2, 10 KOs) won his title by outpointing Masayuki Ito in May of last year. He successfully defended with a decision over Lamont Roach in November.

The 2012 U.S. Olympian is working with trainer Brian McIntyre in Omaha, Nebraska, according to ESPN. He said he doesn’t expect to be rusty when he steps back into the ring.

“It’s funny, I actually felt good for my first sparring session,” Herring said. “So that tells you that even though I haven’t been in a gym setting, the workouts I had been doing at home during my free time, they’ve been paying off.

“So when I got back into the swing of things, it wasn’t a hard adjustment. It’s only one week, and this gives me almost a full eight weeks until the fight arrives.”

Herring won’t face Frampton in July but still wants that fight.

“That’s still the No. 1 priority, for sure,” he said. “I’m still actually shocked from the latest story that I’ve seen, where he’s not willing to fight unless he’s fighting me. If it comes around the December time frame, he will have been out for like an entire year.

“But for me, I just want to stay as busy as much as possible. I’m not getting younger as it is. So why risk coming into big fights with the ring rust on you still.”