Carl Frampton: record, next fight and profile →
Carl Frampton will soon be closing in on a return. The Belfast featherweight lost his WBA ‘Super’ title against Leo Santa Cruz back in January and has yet to announce his comeback. But ‘The Jackal’, 30, will have his next fight at Windsor Park in Belfast after over two years on the road where he and his fans have taken in Manchester, New York, El Paso, and Las Vegas.
Carl Frampton is prepared to offer Leo Santa Cruz the biggest payday of his career to try and lure him to Belfast this summer. The Mexican appears to be going back on his promise to come to the Jackal's Den for a much anticipated trilogy fight, but Frampton and his team aren't giving up yet.
David Haye has dismissed suggestions he is under further pressure to defeat Tony Bellew because of stablemate Carl Frampton’s recent high-profile defeat. The 36-year-old on Friday weighed in at 16st 9oz for Saturday’s fight at London’s O2 Arena against his 15st 3lbs 8oz rival, who will fight at heavyweight for the first time.
According to the World Boxing Association, they are potentially going to order a mandatory trilogy fight between WBA featherweight champion Leo Santa Cruz (33-1-1, 18 KOs) and former beltholder Carl Frampton (23-1, 14 KOs).
As previously reported on BoxingScene.com, WBA featherweight champion Leo Santa Cruz (33-1-1, 18 KOs) is not planning to travel overseas to fight Carl Frampton (23-1, 14 KOs) in a trilogy fight in Belfast. Frampton has traveled overseas for both of his encounters with Santa Cruz, and believes the Mexican boxer should return the favor by at least crossing the ocean for a third encounter.
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WBA featherweight champion Leo Santa Cruz (33-1-1, 18 KOs) would love to face travel overseas to face Carl Frampton (23-1, 14 KOs) in Belfast - but he says that important decision is not fully up to him.
Based on early feedback he has received, Carl Frampton doesn’t get the feeling Leo Santa Cruz is going to fight him next, certainly not in Belfast. In his weekly column for the Belfast Telegraph, Frampton wrote for Sunday’s editions that Santa Cruz wants to fight someone other than him before considering a rubber match and that Santa Cruz doesn’t want to fight Frampton in Frampton’s hometown. Santa Cruz said in the immediate aftermath of his victory over Frampton on January 28 in Las Vegas that he would give Frampton an opportunity to avenge his loss in their rematch by traveling to Frampton’s native Belfast for their third fight.
Carl Frampton is hungry to get revenge after losing his WBA featherweight title fight a week ago, when he dropped a twelve round majority decision in his rematch with Leo Santa Cruz at the MGM Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
By Andreas Hale - It appears that we’re about to add another entry into boxing’s book of great trilogies after Leo Santa Cruz squeezed out a majority decision in his rematch with Carl Frampton last weekend. Clearly, these two are made for each other. While the first fight was a barnburner and “Fight of the Year” cand...