Kiko Martinez

Carl Frampton: I know I’m the smarter fighter than Kiko Martinez

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frampton40By Scott Gilfoid: #2 IBF Carl Frampton (18-0, 13 KOs) will be challenging IBF super bantamweight champion Kiko Martinez (31-4, 23 KOs) for his title on September 6th at the Titanic Quarter, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

Frampton’s management was able to make it worthwhile for Kiko to fight in Frampton’s home country on 9/6 instead of Kiko’s home in Spain. You’ve got to hope that we don’t see a controversial decision in this fight because that would be a tragedy.

Frampton defeated Kiko last year in February in the 9th round when he caught him with a big shot while on the run. Frampton was having major problems with Martinez’s power, and had to get on his bicycle in order to keep from taking too much punishment during the exchanges.

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Rigondeaux wants unification fight against Santa Cruz or Kiko Martinez

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rigondeaux66By Chris Williams: WBA/WBO super bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux (13-0, 8 KOs) is already looking past his opponent for this Saturday night against 37-year-old Sod Looknongyangtoy (63-2-1, 28 KOs) towards some much, much bigger fights in the near future.

Rigondeaux wants to get rid of Looknongyangtoy, and then look to fight unification matches against IBF champion Kiko Martinez and WBC champion Leo Santa Cruz in the near future before moving up in weight to featherweight where there are a number of big named fighters for him to face such as Nonito Donaire, Vasyl Lomachenko, Jhonny Gonzalez, Abner Mares, Evgeny Gradovich and Nicholas Walters.

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Frampton: I’ve already knocked out Kiko Martinez, so he can’t be confident

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frampton40By Scott Gilfoid: #2 IBF Carl Frampton (18-0, 13 KO’s) thinks his previous win over IBF super bantamweight champion Kiko Martinez (31-4, 23 KO’s) from last year has knocked the confidence out of the 28-year-old Spaniard as they head into their rematch on September 6th at the Titanic Quarter, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

Frampton, 27, stopped Martinez in the 9th round after catching him with a shot he didn’t see in their fight in February of last year. Martinez was chasing Frampton around the ring to try and force him to fight, because Frampton had stopped going toe-to-toe with him early on after getting nailed with some massive head shots in the fight.

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Carl Frampton vs. Kiko Martinez II on September 6th

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frampton22By Scott Gilfoid: #1 WBC, #2 IBF, #9 WBO, Carl Frampton (18-0, 13 KO’s) will be challenging IBF super bantamweight champion Kiko Martinez (31-4, 23 KO’s) for his IBF 122 lb. strap in a rematch on September 6th in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Frampton stopped Martinez in the 9th round in a competitive fight last year in February 2013 in Belfast.

The fight was pretty much an even fight until Frampton caught Martinez with a shot to the head in the 9th that knocked him out. At that point in the fight, Martinez was getting to Frampton and it looked like Martinez was on his way to victory.

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Kiko Martinez stops Hasegawa

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hasegawa55By Allan Fox: IBF super bantamweight champion Kiko Martinez (31-4, 23 KO’s) successfully defended his title by stopping former WBC bantamweight champion Hozumi Hasegawa (33-5, 15 KO’s) in the 7th round on Wednesday night at the Castle Hall, in Osaka, Osaka, Japan. Martinez, 28, knocked the 33-year-old Hasegawa down three times in the fight.

The fight was halted at 1:20 of the 7th round by referee Robert Byrd after Martinez knocked Hasegawa down twice in the round. Martinez had also knocked Hasegawa down in the 2nd round from a big left hook to the head. At the time of the stoppage, Hasegawa was bleeding from his nose and was cut over his left eye. He also had swelling around his right eye.

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Kiko Martinez vs. Jeffrey Mathebula this Saturday, December 21st in Spain

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martinez5634By Allan Fox: This Saturday night IBF super bantamweight champion Kiko Martinez (29-4, 21 KO’s) will be making his first defense of his IBF title against #1 IBF Jeffrey Mathebula (27-4-2, 14 KO’s) at the Pabellon Esperanza Lag, Elche, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain.

Martinez, 27, captured the title last August in stopping IBF champion Jhonatan Romero in the 6th round in Atlantic City, New Jersey. It was an impressive slugging performance by Martinez, as he went after Romero from the start and battered him around the ring round after round until the fight was ultimately halted in the 6th round.

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Lampley wants Rigondeaux to face Romero-Martinez winner

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rigondeaux111`By Chris Williams: Jim Lampley of HBO says he’d like to see WBA/WBO super bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux face the winner of Saturday’s fight on HBO between IBF super bantamweight champion Jhonatan Romero (23-0, 12 KO’s) and Kiko Martinez (28-4, 20 KO’s) at the Revel Resort, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA.

Lampley may not know this, but Martinez and Romero are huge steps down from the guy that Rigondeaux just beat in Nonito Donaire.

Lampley said to RingTV “In order to make Rigondeaux interesting in the division and in the ring as skills as he is and as dominant as he is, we need punchers to go at him. We need somebody who can go straight forward and challenge Rigondeaux stylistically.

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Frampton: I’ll fight Quigg one of these days

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frampton88By Scott Gilfoid: EBU super bantamweight champion Carl Frampton (16-0, 11 KO’s) didn’t exactly sound motivated when he was asked last night if he would be interested in fighting interim WBA super bantamweight champion Scott Quigg in his next fight.

The look on Frampton’s face spoke volumes, as he immediately froze for a second before he finally spit out this answer: “Hopefully we’ll fight one of these days. It’s what the British people want; it’s bigger than [David] Price – [Tyson] Fury.”

At that point in the conversation, Frampton was quickly cut off by his promoter Eddie Hearn, who started getting animated, saying this and that about how Frampton is a huge star and how he sells out arenas. Hearn ended his frantic monologue with these words “Scott Quigg needs Frampton, that’s the difference.”

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Hearn: Frampton is a “superstar” at 122

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frampton55By Scott Gilfoid: Eddie Hearn, the promoter for EBU super bantamweight champion Carl Frampton (16-0, 11 KO’s) is already calling the young 5’5” Frampton a superstar in the 122 pound division despite the fact that he struggled in beating Kiko Martinez last night in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Frampton constantly ran and clinched, and ducked below the waist to avoid getting hit. It was constant running and when he wasn’t running, he was clinching.

When Hearn was interviewed after the fight, he was like he was like a broken record, saying “He’s the superstar of the super bantamweight division.”

Superstar, eh? Frampton struggles to beat a 26-year-old Kiko Martinez by running all around the ring for 9 painful to watch rounds, and Hearn is calling him a superstar?

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