Molitor: Carl Frampton isn’t ready for this fight

By Boxing News - 09/17/2012 - Comments

Image: Molitor: Carl Frampton isn't ready for this fightBy Scott Gilfoid: This Saturday night Commonwealth and IBF Inter-Continental super bantamweight champion Carl Frampton (14-0, 9 KO’s) will be putting his unbeaten record and domestic level straps on the line against former IBF super bantamweight champion Steve Molitor (34-2, 12 KO’s) at the Odyssey Arena, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

The 25-year-old Frampton has really stepped in this time in taking on the 32-year-old talented “The Canadian Kid” Molitor. Frampton is going to get schooled in a major way by Molitor, and there is no way shape or form that the little 5’5″ Frampton is going to win this fight. He’s moving up from domestic level to the very best at the world level in taking on Molitor and it’s going to end badly for Frampton. He’s going to look silly in front of his Irish fans. Molitor has beaten better fighter than Frampton, much better.

Molitor said to Hattonboxing.com “I’m a massive step up from Martinez. He’s European level and I’m world level and come fight everyone will realize that. This is too soon for Frampton. He has never been in the ring with someone on my level.”

Frampton is going to get it no matter what he does in this fight, because if he tries to slug, Molitor is going to counter him all night long and whip him like a dog. And if Frampton tries to box like he did in his last fight against Raul Hirales last May, he’s going to find out that Molitor is far superior to him in talent in that department. You don’t try to out-box Molitor because that’s not how you beat him.

Molitor is a superb boxer second to none in the boxing skills department, while Frampton is a little slugger in the Ricky Hatton mode. The one fight where Molitor was destroyed was against Celestino Caballero in a 4th round TKO loss in 2008. But you can’t blame Molitor for losing to that guy, because he’s so damn good that few fighters can compare to him. If you threw Frampton in with Caballero it would be like throwing a morsel to a tiger.

The way I see the Molitor-Frampton fight going down is Frampton trying to bum rush Molitor all night long, throwing wild Hatton-esque hooks and getting his head countered in brutal fashion.

It’s not going to be pretty to watch Frampton get brutalized in front of all his loyal fans, but it’ll be a good lesson for him. He’ll learn that he needs to take things slowly from now on with his career and to move up the right way by going from domestic level to European and then to world level instead of straight from domestic level to world class like he’s doing this Saturday against Molitor.



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