{"id":453206,"date":"2026-02-02T07:45:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T07:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/453206\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T07:45:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T07:45:33","slug":"jarrell-miller-gets-hairpiece-punched-off-in-fight-vs-kingsley-ibeh-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/453206\/","title":{"rendered":"Jarrell Miller gets hairpiece punched off in fight vs Kingsley Ibeh, video"},"content":{"rendered":"

American boxer Jarrell Miller was hit with such a good punch it knocked his hair off – but he still managed to win his fight against Kingsley Ibeh.<\/p>\n

The heavyweight was in the ring on Sunday (AEDT) when Ibeh landed a flurry of shots in the second round that caused a roar from the crowd, despite the fact it didn’t drop him.<\/p>\n

But as one of the punches knocked Miller\u2019s head backward, his hairpiece popped upward from the front, revealing a large bald spot that covered most of his head.<\/p>\n

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Miller finished the round with the hairpiece, then ripped it off in his corner between rounds and tossed it into the crowd at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n

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Jarrell Miller reacts to his toupee falling off.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

The 37-year-old won by split decision, then rubbed the top of his head while doing a celebratory dance at the famous New York Arena.<\/p>\n

He said in his interview in the ring afterward that he lost his hair a couple days earlier after using a bottle of shampoo he found at his mother’s house.<\/p>\n

“I went to my momma’s house a couple of days ago and accidentally used an ammonia shampoo and it made my hair fall out,” he said.<\/p>\n

“You have to make fun of yourself. You can’t take life too seriously, you just have to get back in the gym and get back to work.”<\/p>\n

Aussie boxer Skye Nicolson ended up with Miller’s hairpiece and was photographed wearing it on top of her own head in the MSG crowd.<\/p>\n

Miller was supposed to fight at the arena against then-heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua in 2019, but failed a drug test. Andy Ruiz replaced him and upset Joshua.<\/p>\n

The boxer from Brooklyn was fighting on the undercard of the event topped by Teofimo Lopez’s title bout against unbeaten Shakur Stevenson.<\/p>\n

In the main event, Stevenson won via unanimous decision to claim the WBO junior-welterweight world title, making him a four-division champion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American boxer Jarrell Miller was hit with such a good punch it knocked his hair off – but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-453206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}