Herring beats Dodson at Bare Knuckle 95 and keeps bantamweight belt on night of knockouts

Newark, a city in New Jersey, in the United States, hosted Bare Knuckle 95, a bare-knuckle boxing event. Of the 10 fights held at the Prudential Center on Saturday (17), seven ended with knockouts (two of them technical). This was not the case in the main fight of the night, between Americans Jamel Herring and John Dodson, who fought for the bantamweight belt. Defending the title, Herring benefited from the fact that he was 20 centimeters taller than his rival and avoided risks. Thus, he won by split decision from the judges.

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With the bantamweight title retained, Herring will have Andrew Strode as his next opponent. Dodson, in turn, had already had five fights and suffered only the first defeat of his career at Bare Knuckle. He holds the bare-knuckle boxing organization's flyweight belt.

The winner of the “performance of the night” award was Brooke Evans. The American won the only women's fight on Saturday, knocking down Gabrielle Roman five times in two rounds. The victory came via technical knockout and was Brooke's second in the Bare Knuckle flyweight division.

Cole Cameron, Jimmie Rivera and Tony Soto were responsible for the “knockouts of the night”. The trio beat Phil Caracappa, Brandon Meyer and Anthony Pike, respectively.

See all Bare Knuckle 95 results:

Jamel Herring beat John Dodson by split decision and retained the bantamweight belt; Jimmie Rivera knocked out Brandon Meyer at featherweight; Tony Soto knocked out Anthony Pike at lightweight; Santo Curatolo knocked out Anthony Yost in flyweight; Dalvin Blair knocked out Paris Boyd in lightweight; Dustin Bailey and Noah Getahoun tied at middleweight; Cole Cameron knocked out Phil Caracappa at bantamweight; Mike Medrano beat Rob Emerson by split decision in the welterweight division; Dylan Pitt beat Nick Saragosa by technical knockout in lightweight; Brooke Evans beat Gabrielle Roman by TKO in women's flyweight.

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