Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Sport, who promote WBA 'regular' super bantamweight champion Scott Quigg, believes IBF beltholder Carl Frampton is going to avoid his man by jumping up to 126-pounds.
On Saturday night, Frampton was put down twice in the opening round but battled back to retain his IBF super bantamweight title with a wide-margin points win over Alejandro Gonzalez Jr in El Paso.
The Belfast fighter never looked like being stopped on either occasion but he found the lanky Gonzalez a tough opponent before his class and stamina shone through. Mexican Gonzalez was also not helped by the deduction of points in the third and 11th round for hitting the Jackal with low blows.
And the judges at ringside were impressed enough to give Frampton the fight - the cards showing him 115-109, 116-108 and 116-108 winner.
Frampton stated after the fight that he was struggling to make the division limit. Hearn feels it's all an excuse.
"I think if Frampton is getting knocked over twice by the 11th best super-bantamweight in Mexico, he ain't going to last six rounds with Scott Quigg," the Bury boxer's promoter Hearn said in The Daily Mirror.
"Frampton will now move up to feather as an excuse for avoiding the fight with Scott Quigg. He's not going to get hit like that and survive the fight. And after this, they'll know that even more, so the obvious move for them would be to move to feather. We've got other plans anyway."