By Scott Gilfoid: #2 WBC, Carl Frampton (17-0, 12 KO’s) will be facing #1 WBC, Hugo Fidel Cazares (40-7-2, 27 KO’s) in a fight on April 4th at the Odyssey Arena, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. The fight will be staged in Frampton’s home country, even though Cazares is ranked above him at #1. If I were Cazares, I’d have preferred the fight be staged on neutral turf, because the last thing he needs is stuck on the losing end of a controversial decision. I mean, I doubt Frampton will bother giving Cazares a rematch if it’s a controversial decision, and that would leave the 35-year-old Cazares high and dry.
Frampton, 26, is hoping that a win over the former two-division world champion Cazares will put him in position to face WBC super bantamweight champion Leo Santa Cruz in the 2nd half of 2014. I suspect Frampton will get his fight against Santa Cruz this year, but I don’t see it going well for Frampton. Santa Cruz is too powerful, too relentless and too talented for him.
By Scott Gilfoid: Super featherweight fighter Mitchell Smith had the opportunity to spar with #2 IBF, #2 WBC, Carl Frampton (17-0, 12 KO’s) recently and he came away from the experience incredibly impressed with Frampton’s talent and power. 
By Scott Gilfoid: Undefeated #2 IBF, #2 WBC, #10 WBO, Carl Frampton (17-0, 12 KO’s) says he wants WBC super bantamweight champion Leo Santa Cruz (26-0-1, 15 KO’s) and he expects to be able to get a fight against him in the next 4-5 months. Frampton fancies himself to be up to the task of beating Santa Cruz, as he thinks his style is beatable for him.
(Photo credit: Tom Casino/Showtime) By Scott Gilfoid: EBU super bantamweight champion Carl Frampton (17-0, 12 KO’s) has sized up WBC 122 lb. champ Leo Santa Cruz (25-0-1, 15 KO’s) after watching some of his fights and he feels he’s got the style to beat the 25-year-old Santa Cruz. 
By Rachel Aylett: On revisiting the big fight of the week, I would like to give enormous credit to new WBO light-welterweight champion Ruslan Provodnikov. I noted whilst watching his fight against Mike Alvarado that the Siberian Rocky is almost unrecognizable from the fighter that was soundly outpointed on ESPN’s Friday Night Fights in January 2011 by Mauricio Herrera. That was a fan friendly fight, as are all of Ruslan’s engagements, but the Russian lost clearly and was out-skilled by the fringe contender from the US. 
By Rachel Aylett: Tonight, in front of a raucous Belfast crowd of 9,000 Ulstermen and women, Carl Frampton successfully defended his European super-bantamweight title in a fight that also doubled as an eliminator for the IBF world title. He knocked out hapless French opponent Jeremy Parodi with a superb left hook to the body in the sixth round to put himself in line for a shot at the winner of the upcoming title fight between champion Kiko Martinez from Span and lanky South African, Jeffrey Mathebula.
By Scott Gilfoid: As you would guess, EBU super bantamweight champion Carl Frampton (17-0, 12 KO’s) stopped #4 IBF Jeremy Parodi (35-2-1, 9 KO’s) in the 6th round on Saturday night at the Odyssey Arena, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. Frampton, 26, knocked Parodi down with a left to the body in the 6th. 
(Photo credit: Russell Pritchard) By Scott Gilfoid: In what should be a mismatch tonight, undefeated EBU super bantamweight champion Carl Frampton (16-0, 11 KO’s) will be defending his strap against France’s Jeremy Parodi (35-1-1, 9 KO’s) at the Odyssey Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland. 
(Picture by Russell Pritchard: By Cutman’s Stool: “Frampton Comes Alive!” as it is billed will be an electrifying night of boxing.  I don’t say this lightly, Belfast has one, if not the best atmosphere for a boxing match anywhere else in the world.  Very few places on the globe can compare to the passionate support from the Capital of Northern Ireland.  The fans are truly fanatic and the support they give the home guy Carl Frampton (16-0, 11 KO’s) is nothing short of magnificent.  
By Scott Gilfoid: Matchroom Sport promoter Eddie Hearn is saying that he made an offer to unbeaten Carl Frampton (16-0, 11 KO’s) to fight Hearn’s fighter WBA super bantamweight champion Scott Quigg (26-0-2, 19 KO’s) next Spring.