By Terence Dooley
Former featherweight world Champion Barry McGuigan has told Sky Sports HQ that IBF Super bantamweight boss Carl Frampton (21-0, 14 early) and WBA World title holder Scott Quigg (31-0-2, 23 KOs) are lucky to have each other as he went his whole career without a big, defining domestic fight.
McGuigan manages Frampton; he believes that Quigg will bring out the best in his man but said that the Bury-based boxer has fewer strings to his boxing bow.
“Both have got the style to make it very exciting,” predicted McGuigan. “Quigg is more rigid than Carl, he's a good puncher to body and head, quick on his feet, fairly tight defence. Carl is more fluent. But both are explosive. Frampton can really bang to body and head, he's looser and has a tremendous chin despite the fact that he was down in his last fight. That was complacency. It's a clash of styles with the potential to be another Eubank-Benn, another Froch-Groves.”
The former featherweight world Champion has worked many big domestic fights as a pundit—most notably Chris Eubank’s upset win over Nigel Benn in their first encounter—and he believes there is something special about domestic rivalries, saying: “I went through my entire career without having somebody like Carl has got.
“I hadn't got anybody at the same weight who was an equally good competitor that I could fight. They've both got each other and that's going to benefit the boxing public and the wider public at large because this is reaching beyond boxing.”
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