Carl Frampton: record, next fight and profile →
As previously reported on BoxingScene.com, Carl Frampton's fight with Mexico's Andres Gutierrez at the SSE Arena in Belfast has been called off with less than 24-hours' notice. In a statement, Frampton's promoter Cyclone Promotions said Gutierrez had suffered a freak accident after falling in the shower.
Tomorrow night's fight between former two-weight world champion Carl Frampton and Andres Gutierrez in Belfast is off. The bout had been sanctioned as a WBC World Featherweight title eliminator but that was quashed after Frampton came in one pound over the 126lb limit.
Belfast’s Carl “The Jackal” Frampton (23-1, 14 KOs) dismissed talk of a possible Lee Selby showdown earlier today when telling the assembled press in his hometown that he is solely focussed on the challenge presented by Mexico’s Andres Gutierrez (35-1-1, 25 early) at the city’s SSE Arena on Saturday night.
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Carl Frampton felt like “a failure” after losing for the first time as a professional fighter. The former featherweight champion detailed the depressing days he endured in the aftermath of his loss to Leo Santa Cruz in the column he wrote for Sunday’s editions of the Belfast Telegraph, his hometown newspaper. Santa Cruz avenged his own first defeat by boxing better in their 12-round rematch and winning a majority decision over Northern Ireland’s Frampton on January 28 at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
Former two division beltholder Carl Frampton (23-1, 14 KOs) believes the time is right for a showdown with IBF world featherweight champion Lee Selby (25-1, 9 KOs). Frampton is back in action this coming Saturday night at the SSE Arena in Belfast, when he takes on Andres Gutierrez (35-1-1, 25 KOs) in a WBC world title eliminator.
On Saturday night at the SSE Arena at Wembley in London, Britain's Lee Selby defended his International Boxing Federation (IBF) world featherweight belt with a unanimous points decision against Argentine challenger Jonathan Victor Barros four days after the death of his mother.
Carl Frampton has said Conor McGregor will do well to lay a glove on Floyd Mayweather in their Las Vegas superfight, but Donegal middleweight Jason Quigley has predicted the Dubliner will knock his opponent "out cold".
Carl Frampton has told UTV he hopes his next fight – against Mexican puncher Andres Gutierrez – will not be his last in his Belfast hometown. The pair will face off against each other at the SSE Arena on Saturday, July 29, in a WBC world featherweight title eliminator. While Frampton admits he longs to fight at Windsor Park, he also knows what it is like to enter the ring in the ‘Jackal’s Den’ of the SSE.
The Jackal returns to the ring for first time since defeat to Leo Santa Cruz in Las Vegas in January Carl Frampton is to fight Mexico’s Andres Gutierrez when he returns from his first professional defeat at Belfast’s Odyssey Arena on July 29.