By Terence Dooley

Former world featherweight champion Barry McGuigan believes that Floyd Mayweather against Manny Pacquiao isn’t the only big unification fight we’ll see this year.  McGuigan is optimistic that IBF Super bantamweight titlist Carl Frampton, who he manages, will face WBA World counterpart Scott Quigg in the summer to partially unify the division.

"This is the direction of travel in which boxing is going," he wrote in today's Daily Mirror column.  ‘Mayweather/ Pacquiao will not be the last superfight we see this year.  The major boxing organisations are finally waking up to the value of seeing champions face off.  You can put Carl Frampton and Scott Quigg into that category.  Negotiations are taking place.  Hopefully things happen in June."

Both boxers have expressed their desire for a domestic showdown, but promotional and TV divisions have stood in their way.  Frampton's last win was on ITV, a fifth-round TKO win over Chris Avalos, whereas Quigg fights on Sky, beating Hidenori Otake last time out via a unanimous decision.

However, both McGuigan and Eddie Hearn, who handles Quigg, are receptive to the contest under the right conditions as both camps vie for the right to tackle Guillermo Rigondeaux, the division’s number one fighter.

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