\u201cI get to my mama\u2019s house and I saw some shampoo bottles on the table,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI shampooed and it was like ammonium bleach. I literally lost my hair like two days ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I called my manager and said, \u2018Get me one of those manes\u2019, and I slapped that on real quick.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s funny, man. I\u2019m a comedian and you\u2019ve got to make fun of yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n
Miller eventually removed the hairpiece between rounds and tossed it to the crowd, including Australian former featherweight titleholder Skye Nicolson, who passed it around for photo opportunities.<\/p>\n
Miller went on to win the bout by split decision and celebrated the win with a dance that included rubbing his exposed head.<\/p>\n
The 37-year-old took to Instagram the following day, sharing an AI-generated video of himself driving a convertible down a country road while dressed in full boxing gear, gloves included, with his hairpiece flapping in the wind.<\/p>\n
Fans flooded the post, captioned \u201dHair today gONe tomorrow”, with messages of support and humour.<\/p>\n
\u201cHats off to you Champ! You won by a hair,\u201d one wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomeone\u2019s got toupee for this,\u201d said another.<\/p>\n
A third said Miller won \u201chair and square\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWHOOP HAIR IT IS!!\u201d a fourth commenter added.<\/p>\n
Miller had been due to fight Anthony Joshua at Madison Square Garden in 2019, but the bout was cancelled after Miller failed a drugs test.<\/p>\n
Mexican fighter Andy Ruiz jnr went on to replace him, knocking out Joshua and claiming the unified heavyweight title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI get to my mama\u2019s house and I saw some shampoo bottles on the table,\u201d he said. \u201cI…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,92456,6097,2837,15124,6637,2219,2536,151565,151561,151564,5503,29309,114231,40839,17935,151562,4505,111,139,69,151566,7811,213,1361,151563,5143,1959],"class_list":["post-265853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-boxer","tag-down","tag-during","tag-fight","tag-gave","tag-gone","tag-hair","tag-ibeh","tag-jarrell","tag-kingsley","tag-knocked","tag-let","tag-loose","tag-meaning","tag-miller","tag-millers","tag-moment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-phrase","tag-since","tag-sports","tag-that","tag-toupee","tag-viral","tag-your"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}