Frampton to fight on May 11th; it won’t be Quigg

frampton24By Scott Gilfoid: Newly crowned EBU super bantamweight champion Carl Frampton (16-0, 11 KO’s) will be back in the ring on May 11th, says his promoter Eddie Hearn, but it probably won’t be against interim WBA super bantamweight champion Scott Quigg because Hearn doesn’t appear all that interested in making that fight based on the comments he made after Frampton’s 9th round TKO win over Kiko Martinez (27-4, 19 KO’s) last Saturday night at the Odyssey Arena, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

Hearn said “The kid [Frampton] is a world beater. He’s going right to the top. We’re already looking at May 11th to be back here. The IBF title; I’d say we’re going to get a shot [at some point in the future], and even the WBC title.

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Frampton proves his CRITIC wrong with his one punch knockout over Kiko Martinez

frampton22By Dominic Sauboorah: Carl Frampton just showed how good he is after he knocked out knock out artist EBU super bantamweight champion Kiko Martinez last night at the Odyssey Arena in Belfast. The atmosphere was electric and Frampton was clearly spurred on by the crowd.

The talented Irishman did have to come through some rough times, however showed just how good he is at adjusting to a fight as he ended up landing the better punches and in the 9th caught the Spaniard with a devastating straight right hand that landed flush on Martinez’s chin. Martinez did want to fight on, however his legs deserted him and was unable to continue.

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Frampton stops Martinez; Lee defeats Fitzgerald; Selby dominates Lindsay

frampton23By Jim Dower: Carl Frampton (16-0, 11 KO’s) stayed unbeaten on Saturday night in defeating the powerful EBU super bantamweight champion Kiko Martinez (27-4, 19 KO’s) by a 9th round TKO to take his title at the Odyssey Arena, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

The fight ended when the 26-year-old Martinez walked into a short right hand from Frampton that sent him down on the canvas. Martinez got back to his feet but was staggering. Realizing that Martinez was too hurt to continue the referee then halted the bout at 2:46 of the round.

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British and Commonwealth featherweight champion Lee Selby (14-1, 5 KO’s) totally dominated an over-matched and much smaller Martin Lindsay (20-2, 7 KO’s) in beating him by a lopsided 12 round points unanimous decision by the scores of 118-110, 117-111 and 118-109.

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McGuigan: Frampton will beat Martinez in style

frampton2By Scott Gilfoid: Barry McGuigan, the adviser for Carl Frampton (15-0, 10 KO’s), thinks he’s going to have too much talent, skills and fire power for EBU super bantamweight Kiko Martinez (27-3, 19 KO’s) in their fight tonight at the Odyssey Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

McGuigan said to Sky Sports “Frampton is in the best shape of his life, and he’ll win this fight and win it in style. When he [Martinez] gets hit, he’ll get hit hard because Frampton is a tremendous puncher.”

McGuigan is really getting carried away about Frampton and his power and talent. Frampton has decent power, but he’s not a monster in the ring knocking guys out cold with a single shot, let’s be clear on that.

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Frampton-Martinez get into a brief argument at weigh-in

By Scott Gilfoid: EBU super bantamweight champion Kiko Martinez and challenger Carl Frampton got into a heated exchange during today’s weigh-in in Belfast, Northern Ireland. After both fighters made the 122 pound weigh-in limit, Martinez, 26, walked up on Frampton and started jawing while waving a flag. It looked pretty contrived to me.

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Frampton: The top fighters will notice me if I beat Martinez impressively

frampton3By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten Carl Frampton (15-0, 10 KO’s) is hoping the top fighters in the 122 lb. division will take notice of him if he whips EBU super bantamweight champion Kiko Martinez (27-3, 19 KO’s) this Saturday night at the Odyssey Arena, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

Frampton, #9 IBF, #8 WBC, believes he’ll be ready to mix it up with the top echelon of the super bantamweight division by 2014 in fights against the likes of Nonito Donairre and Guillermo Rigondeaux.

Frampton said to Sky Sports News “An impressive win could make the boys at the top of the division stand up and take notice.”

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Kiko Martinez: Frampton will run and then I’ll KO him

frampton342By Scott Gilfoid: EBU super bantamweight champion Kiko Martinez (27-3, 19 KO’s) expects the younger and inexperienced Carl Frampton (15-0, 10 KO’s) to be running for survival in their fight on February 9th at the Odyssey Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Martinez believes Frampton won’t even try to mix it up with him for fear of getting hurt by something big.

Martinez said to Sky Sports “I feel I will be by knockout…I think Frampton will try to run. I think he’ll box and he won’t go toe-to-toe. I know I’m a lot stronger than him. When I’m in the ring with him, he won’t want to fight me.”

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Frampton-Martinez: Carl will get his first taste of raw power on February 9th

frampton342By Scott Gilfoid: 25-year-old Carl Frampton (15-0, 10 KO’s) will get his first taste of power on February 9th in his title challenge against EBU super middleweight champion Kiko Martinez (27-3, 19 KO’s) at the Oddyssey Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

This is going to be interesting to see how Frampton responds to being on the receiving end of some big power shots instead of being the one dishing it out in his fights against lesser opposition. Martinez is a big step up from the fodder that Frampton has been fighting thus far, although Kiko is still hardly a great fighter.

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Frampton-Martinez: Carl faces his first real test

frampton23By Scott Gilfoid: Commonwealth super bantamweight champion Carl Frampton (15-0, 10 KO’s) will be taking his first real test of his four year pro career against EBU super bantamweight champion Kiko Martinez (27-3, 19 KO’s) on February 9th at the Odyssey Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

This is going to be a really tough one for the 25-year-old Frampton because Martinez has power, speed, defensive skills and a huge heart. Martinez has no quit in him and he’s got a really good chin. What this means is that Martinez will be able to take Frampton’s big power shots without any problem, but then he’ll be answering back with his own big shots and I don’t know that Frampton can take a hard shot as of yet.

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Martin Rogan added to the Frampton-Martinez fight on February 9th

rogan46356By Scott Gilfoid: 41-year-old heavyweight Martin Rogan (14-3, 7 KO’s) has been added to the Carl Frampton vs. Kiko Martinez fight card on February 9th at the Odyssey Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Rogan hasn’t fought since losing to Tyson Fury by a 5th round knockout last year in April. Rogan still doesn’t have an opponent yet, but I’m not expecting anyone with a pulse. Someone will be dragged out for him to beat up I suppose.

Fury toyed with Rogan, fighting the entire fight from the southpaw stance to capture the vacant Irish heavyweight title. Rogan hasn’t beaten a decent domestic level fighter since defeating Matt Skelton and Audley Harrison back in 2009 and 2008. I’m not talking about quality world class opposition, because Rogan has never done that. I’m talking local level opposition and it’s been ages since Rogan beat any of those guys.

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