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Belfast’s Carl “The Jackal” Frampton (23-1, 14 KOs) has confirmed the rumours that he has decided to split with long-time mentor Barry McGuigan. The former IBF World and WBA World Super-bantamweight, and WBA Super World featherweight holder released a brief statement confirming the news earlier today.
Sam Kynoch of MTK Scotland has confirmed that talented Liverpool-based boxer-puncher Joe Selkirk has signed a deal with MTK and is set to return to action at the Echo Arena on September 30 as part of Eddie Hearn’s ‘Battle on the Mersey’ bill, which will be headlined by Rocky Fielding’s British Super middleweight title fight against Scotland’s Commonwealth holder David Brophy.
Former heavyweight world Champion Tyson Fury (25-0, 18 KOs) has taken to social media to offer Sinead O’Connor a helping hand after discovering that the singer is struggling to deal with the effects of bipolar disorder.
The fight between Inverness’s Gary Cornish (24-1, 12 KOs) and Norwich-based Sam Sexton (23-3, 9 stoppages) for the vacant British heavyweight title has been rescheduled for October 6 and will take place at Edinburgh’s Meadowbank Arena, according to The Inverness Courier and the Eastern Daily Press. Sam Kynoch of MTK Scotland is promoting the bout after obtaining the rights to stage it from Paul Graham, who won the original purse bid yet had to spike the fight due to a back injury-induced setback for Sexton.
The IBF have denied rumours that they have blocked the partial unification fight between their World bantamweight holder Ryan Burnett (17-0, 9 KOs) and WBA Super World titlist Zhanat Zhakiyanov (27-1, 18 KOs), telling BoxingScene that ‘The fight has been tentatively approved while we await contracts’ to quash some online claims that 25-year-old may be forced to take a mandatory instead.
Eddie Hearn believes that IBF World, WBA Super World and IBO heavyweight titlist Anthony Joshua (19-0, 19 KOs) will meet WBC holder Deontay Wilder (38-0, 37 KOs) next summer as long as both men continue to rack up wins.
Birmingham’s Sam “The Savage” Eggington (21-2, 13 KOs) will defend his European welterweight title for the first time when he meets mandatory challenger Mohamed Mimoune (18-2, 2 early) on the undercard of Anthony Crolla versus Ricky Burns. The fight will take at the Manchester Arena on October 7 and will present the 23-year-old with another learning fight as he bids to get into world title contention.
Nottingham’s Carl Froch (33-2, 24 KOs) retired from boxing in 2014 after deciding that the grind of training was too much, especially as he had started to struggle when making the 168lb limit in his last few bouts. Now a pundit for Sky Sports, “The Cobra” can reflect back on a career that will lead to the HoF and lasting recognition. During a recent conversation with BoxingScene, the 40-year-old recalled some of the key moments and battles he had prior to, during and after the Super Six tournament that spanned a crucial chunk of his in-ring career.
Oxford’s Jim Rosenthal has seen many fighters come and go in his decades spent working in the sport of boxing yet he believes that in Anthony Joshua the UK scene has someone who can help ensure that more British fighters win over the wider, and lucrative, US market by leading his own State and worldwide charge, blazing a new trail in the process.
Mexico's Leo Santa Cruz (33-1-1, 18 KOs) has told Carl Frampton (23-1, 14 KOs) that he is willing to travel to Belfast at some point in 2018 as long as the money is right and providing he can arrange a Visa for his father, Jose. The 28-year-old beat “The Jackal” by majority decision in January to wrest back the WBA Super World featherweight belt that Frampton had taken from him on points last year.