Haye Backing Frampton For Big win, Dressing Room Row

By Terence Dooley

Former cruiserweight Champion and WBA heavyweight titlist David Haye is backing stablemate Carl Frampton (21-0, 14 early) ahead of this Saturday’s showdown with WBA Super World Super bantamweight titlist Scott Quigg (31-0-2, 23 Kos).

Haye and Frampton are trained by Shane McGuigan, and Haye has gone all in on Frampton after taking in some impressive sparring sessions.

“After the last sparring session I thought, ‘Wow, there's only going to be one winner in this fight’,” said Haye when speaking to the Daily Mirror.  “I didn't know he could do that.  I've seen him adapt in training.  Do something in one spar and then do something completely different.  His last few sessions, I was mesmerised.”

He added: “I've seen a lot of fighters up close.  I've seen him progress to the point where he could do anything in the ring.  He was avoiding everything and landed what he wanted to land.  After the last sparring session I was like: ‘Are you going to do that on the night?  Then it's going to be easy for you’.  It's going to be special and people will look back in years to come and say it was where the superstar was born.”

The back-and-forth for the fight took a new turn when Team Frampton found out that Quigg had earmarked the “Home” dressing room, they have insisted that Frampton should have access to it, as the fight has been billed as ‘Frampton-Quigg’.

“We can expect much of the same,” said Sky pundit Jamie Moore when speaking to Sky about the dressing room row.  “They maybe even up it a notch today because both camps were trying to wind each other up.  They are both trying to rile each other up in to making mistakes in the fight.”

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