Carl Frampton: record, next fight and profile →
It wasn’t long after Carl Frampton was announced the winner over Leo Santa Cruz in a fantastic featherweight fight that the champion of the junior featherweight division took to Twitter.
Frampton vs. Santa Cruz Photo Gallery - In a possible "Fight of the Year" showdown between two undefeated fighters, Carl Frampton edged Leo Santa Cruz in a firefight to capture the WBA Featherweight World Championship in the main event of SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING® Saturday in front of 9,062 fans at the electric Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Guillermo Rigondeaux respects the outstanding work Carl Frampton and Leo Santa Cruz produced Saturday night. The WBA super world super bantamweight champion made it clear, though, that he wants an opportunity to travel to Belfast for a fight against Frampton. The newly crowned WBA super world featherweight champion from Northern Ireland said in the immediate aftermath of his majority decision victory over Santa Cruz at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center that he would welcome a rematch with Santa Cruz in Belfast or an all-United Kingdom showdown with Wales’ Lee Selby, the IBF featherweight title-holder.
Irish eyes are surely smiling. Showing poise, versatility, and durability, Northern Ireland’s Carl Frampton proved that risk has its rewards. Just months after winning an anticipated, if ultimately less than scintillating, unification battle with undefeated Scott Quigg, he moved up in weight to take on another undefeated tiger.
BROOKLYN - In a possible 'Fight of the Year' showdown between two undefeated fighters, Carl Frampton edged Leo Santa Cruz in a firefight to capture the WBA Featherweight World Championship in the main event of SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING® Saturday in front of 9,062 fans at the electric Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Carl Frampton unanimously outpointed previously undefeated champion Leo Santa Cruz on Saturday night to take the WBA super featherweight title. Frampton, from Northern Ireland, improved to 23-0. Santa Cruz, from Mexico, dropped to 32-1-1.
By Terence Dooley - Frampton (23-0, 14KOs) moves up in weight and becomes a two division world champion with a twelve round majority decision over previously undefeated Leo Santa Cruz (32-1-1, 18KOs) to capture the WBA featherweight world title. The scores were 114-114 a draw, 116-112 and...
Santa Cruz vs. Frampton Scorecard - It's cliched but it's true; all things being equal, the good big man will always defeat the good little man. Given that the slightly bigger Santa Cruz (32-0-1, 18 KOs) also has an edge over Frampton (22-0, 14 KOs) in power, quality of opposition and punch resistance, the outcome of this fight seems like a no-brainer.
New York - Although Mexican slugger Leo Santa Cruz (32-0-1, 18 KO's) resides California and his fight with UK's Carl Frampton (22-0, 14 KO's) is on US soil, the trip to Brooklyn where the fight will take place in the Barclays Center is about equal in distance in terms of travel between California and the United Kingdom.
New York - Carl Frampton (22-0,14 KO's) fought in front of a sold out M.E.N. Arena in Manchester when he defeated Scott Quigg earlier this year. So how does he top that? Move up a weight class to fight one of the top featherweights in the world in Leo Santa Cruz (32-0-1,18 KO's), and do it in the United States. All eyes of the boxing world and Frampton believes his fight with Santa Cruz if the biggest and toughest fight of his career.