Carl Frampton: record, next fight and profile →
THE DECISION TO postpone a major show is always made with a heavy heart – and a considerably lighter wallet – but the wellbeing of our fighters will always come first for me. A hand injury suffered by Billy Joe Saunders has forced us to push back our 02 Arena show – originally scheduled for April 14 – to a new date of June 23.
The WBO Interim Featherweight World Title will be on the line when Carl Frampton MBE and Nonito Donaire clash in a blockbuster bout at the SSE Arena in Belfast on Saturday 21st April, live on BT Sport and BoxNation.
Carl Frampton is not buying the excuses from Scott Quigg - who failed to make weight for a world title fight with WBO featherweight champion Oscar Valdez. In a contest which took place earlier this month in Los Angeles, Quigg came in at nearly three pounds over the featherweight limit of 126-pounds. A deal was reached for the contest to move forward, but Quigg blew off a same day weigh-in the following morning - which enraged Valdez and his handlers.
WHAT SHOULD PROVE to be a scintillating sequence of top-end featherweight fisticuffs got underway at the weekend when Oscar Valdez retained his WBO belt with a convincing points victory over Scott Quigg. Next up, our boys join the party, with Carl Frampton taking on former four-weight world champion Nonito Donaire in Belfast on April 21 – which we hope will also become a final eliminator for the WBO title – before Josh Warrington challenges Lee Selby for the IBF world title at Elland Road in Leeds on May 19.
Scott Quigg wants Carl Frampton to beat Nonito Donaire next month. Quigg figures if he upsets Oscar Valdez on Saturday night and Frampton defeats Donaire, it’ll build momentum for their rematch. England’s Quigg suffered his only professional loss to Northern Ireland’s Frampton, a split-decision defeat two years ago in their super bantamweight championship unification fight in Manchester, England.
To put it lightly, 2017 was a difficult year for Carl Frampton, but now he's in a good place ahead of his date with Nonito Donaire. 'The Jackal' returns to the SSE Arena in Belfast on April 21st, where a win could set up a summer stadium showdown at Windsor Park. Frampton teamed up with Jamie Moore towards the end of last year, and told the BoxNation Podcast that he's enjoying life at the VIP Gym, alongside the likes of Martin Murray and Jack Catterall.
Despite being one win away from potentially securing his childhood dream, Carl Frampton is not getting carried away. Standing in his way is 'Filipino Flash' Nonito Donaire, who has lifted World Titles in four weight divisions during a stellar career. A triumph over Donaire on April 21st could set up a World Title shot at Windsor Park stadium in the summer, with the winner of Lee Selby v Josh Warrington a possible opponent for Frampton.
As previously reported by BoxingScene.com, a very tense legal battle began earlier this week at the High Court of North Ireland, between former world champion Carl Frampton and his ex-manager and promoter Barry McGuigan. Frampton claims that he finally parted ways with McGuigan last year after the taxman called the boxer's home about a £397,000 company VAT bill.
The legal battle has begun in a North Ireland High Court, between former world champion Carl Frampton and his ex-manager and promoter Barry McGuigan. The Belfast fighter claims that he wasn't paid properly under an arrangement which "unjustly enriched" McGuigan and his company, Cyclone Promotions. According to the Belfast Telegraph, a judge was told that Frampton's parents believe they lodged up to £1 million raised through selling tickets to their son's bouts into McGuigan's bank account.
The Northern Irishman has drawn a line under the last 12 months, in which he lost his world title and split with his trainer and his manager. Carl Frampton feels he is enjoying boxing more than ever before and that 2018 could prove the best year of his career to date. That would make for a stark contrast to last year, which the former two-weight world champion in November labelled “disastrous” just before he outpointed Mexico’s Horacio Garcia at the SSE Arena in his native Belfast.