DOWN GOES FRONTAL! Jarrell Miller won the war in his boxing match on Saturday night, but lost the battle for his “Big Baby” bundles when Kingsley Ibeh pushed his wig back one punch at a time!
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The main event was Teofimo Lopez vs. Shakur Stevenson, but Miller taking the top of the Maybach became one of the most viral moments in boxing since Mike Tyson little Evander Holyfield. This is also only a few weeks later Anthony Joshua gave salty showboat Jake Paul an open-concept jawline with a bone breaking knockout. Social media can't get enough of the wig-splitting shenanigans!
Miller couldn't keep his hair in the ring after tossing it into the ancestral realm like Bobby Shmurda's hat, but kept his head and heart in the game. Meanwhile, Ibeh appeared to be struggling to maintain his composure as his flurry of fists caused the malleable muffin-cap accident. The we had the follicular power to come back from the wig snatch to pull off a split decision win 94-96, 97-93, 97-93.
It's hard to believe, but things only get funnier with the wet 'n' wavy warrior!
Check out Jarrell Miller's explanation for the hairstyle hijinx and what happened to his TKO'd toupee after the flip!
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Like any great boxer, Jarrell Miller took the follicle faux pas on the chin. In the post-fight interview, he revealed that his hair was all right just two days ago. Then a shampoo switcheroo made the hilarious heavyweight lose his locs.
“I come to my mom's house and she had some shampoo bottles under her table. And I shampooed – that s*** was like ammonia and bleach. I only lost my hair like two days ago. So I called my manager, he was like, 'Let me hit that s*** on real quick.'
“[Ibeh] knock that s*** off. But like I said before, it's funny man. I'm a comedian.”
Some skeptics on social media slammed his claims, speculating that he was bald all along.
We may never get a complete timeline on Miller's hairline, but that's not the only mystery of the match. Everyone wants to know what happened when the toupee went on the run like Jay and Bey. The unruly unit made several cameos in Madison Square Garden's star-studded crowd. WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman secured the wig at one point.
Skye Nicholson also tried it before the wig went through. Some side-eyeing social media users thought that stunt was a little too close to Black History Month, but the whole crowd seemed to pass it around as a collection plate.
WBO heavyweight champion Fabio Wardley also gave the quirky wig a seat for #safekeeping.
Social media sleuths didn't stop at the jokes. They tracked down the barber behind the hightop hit-n-run, who apparently erased the evidence of Miller in his seat.
However, his handiwork is still visible on TikTok for now. Big Baby looked great, but the unit was clearly not built to survive Ibeh's heavyweight haymakers.
Jarrell Miller more than delivered on his promise to put on a show and he's still smiling. In a follow-up video, he vowed to knock down the hatches on his hairline.
“I can't explain it! It is what it is. But the next time you see me, I'm going to spray paint this b***h!” he joked.
