By Ben Jacobs

With news that a potential blockbuster clash between WBA super bantamweight champion Scott Quigg and his IBF counterpart Carl Frampton seemingly close to being made for February 27 in Manchester, BoxingScene.com caught up with Quigg’s trainer, Joe Gallagher, to gather his feelings about the fight.

“If you go back, they said Rendall Monroe was finished, but he was a good fighter.  Rendall came back after that.  When we beat Jason Booth, it was a good win.  In his next fight he dropped Kid Galahad.  Carl knocked Kiko out.  Great, well done.  Then had a rematch with him and went 12 rounds against a kid he’s already knocked out, and they claim those were his best wins, and the Canadian kid they fought."

"Meanwhile Quigg beat Rendall, fought Salinas and then he had decent wins.  When the Kiko fight came around and we got the win people said he [Martínez] was finished there, so we can’t do right from wrong.  I know Quigg needs only one or two of those shots he landed against Kiko and it’s all over.  Frampton’s got a delicate chin and body. 

“He still fights amateurish.  Jab, jab, right hand, because he doesn’t want to engage.  Even the second Kiko fight he had him in trouble but wouldn’t go in for the kill, and Kiko was still bothering him with body shots.  This is a man you previously knocked out.  He knows himself he’s been knocked clean out in sparring a couple of times, he’s delicate around the whiskers.”

The bout, one of the most anticipated in recent years, not just in the United Kingdom but throughout the boxing world, was held up several times due to failed negotiations, nevertheless, it does seem now that both parties are on board with the terms.

“Quigg’s mentality is, ‘I just want to fight, I don’t care what they want, if they want 60 percent, I don’t give two sh*ts.  I’m knocking him out,’”  Gallagher continued.

“Their mentality is, ‘We’re not having the fight unless we’re on the left hand side of the post.’  And this and that.  That’s the mentality from both sides.”