Jamel Herring Dominates Luis Flores in PBC on FS1 Main Event

.@JamelHerring drops Flores twice in the 5th round. #PBConFS1https://t.co/Q4ImtoHuhJ

— PBC (@premierboxing) February 10, 2016

If there were any jitters for young lightweight contender Jamel Herring in his first headlining event, they weren’t visible on Tuesday night. Herring, the captain of the 2012 U.S. Olympic boxing team, was sensational in the main event of the latest edition of Premier Boxing Champions Toe-To-Toe Tuesdays event on Fox Sports 1, dominating Colombian knockout artist Luis Eduardo Flores over 10 rounds.

Herring (15-0, 8 KOs) was too slippery and quick for Flores to handle as the speed difference was evident immediately. The Marine picked his foe apart with snapping jabs and sneaky straight lefts, but his bread and butter all fight long was the right check hook, followed by a straight left to the gut. Flores always tried to come forward and make it a brawl, but Herring was too savvy to and slick to allow it; Flores almost never stood a chance.

Jamel scored a pair of knockdowns in the fifth as well, though the first one shouldn’t have been ruled as such. Flores had stumbled back over his opponent’s legs and was on the verge of tumbling down, but a left hook to the body finished off the collapse. However, moments after the fight resumed, a loopy right to the head sent the Colombian reeling and his gloves touched the canvas.

Herring, who is from New York but currently lives in Cincinnati, gunned for the knockout as the rounds wore on, but Flores (21-3, 18 KOs) was too tough and grizzled to allow it. In the end, Herring had to settle for a unanimous decision, which he won in lopsided via tallies of 99-89 and 100-88 (twice).

2008 Olympian Raynell Williams kept his unblemished record intact with a dominant eight-round unanimous decision win over California’s Gabriel Tolmajyan (14-5-2, 3 KOs) in the chief support bout inside the Sands Bethlehem Events Center in Bethlehem, Penn. Williams (11-0, 5) was too elusive and accurate with his shots all fight long and Tolmajyan wouldn’t keep up. Williams, from Cleveland, never really hurt his lightweight foe but won almost every round; he was awarded the verdict by margins of 78-74 and 79-73 (twice).

In the opening bout of the telecast, Harvey, Ill.’s Alex Martin was too much for fellow welterweight Rosemberg Gomez to handle. Martin (12-0, 5 KOs) picked the Nicaraguan apart from the start but didn’t have enough power to take his foe out. Martin won via tallies of 80-72 and 79-73 (twice) thanks to his much better handspeed and superior footwork, which perplexed Gomez (17-5-1, 13 KOs) routinely.