Leo Santa Cruz

By Jim Dower: Unbeaten WBA featherweight champion Leo Santa Cruz (32-0-1, 18 KOs) made weight on Friday in weighing at 125.5 pounds for his title defense against former IBF/WBA super bantamweight champion Carl Frampton (22-0, 14 KOs) on Saturday night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. The 29-year-old Frampton weighed in at 125.25lbs.

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(Photo credit: Amanda Westcott/SHOWTIME) By Scott Gilfoid: Carl Frampton (22-0, 14 KOs) expects his fight against WBA Super World featherweight champion Leo Santa Cruz (32-0-1, 18 KOs) to be a really tough one on Saturday nighton July 30 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

Frampton, 29, has his game plan down for the match and ready to spring it on Santa Cruz, but he realizes too that the fight could ultimately come down to the two of them brawling in center ring. In other words, tactics might fail and Frampton could be stuck having to prove that he can beat Gonzalez the old fashioned way by slugging it out.

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By Scott Gilfoid: Carl Frampton (22-0, 14 KOs) expects to be a more dangerous fighter than he’s ever been before when he moves up in weight this Saturday night to challenge WBA featherweight champion Leo Santa Cruz (32-0-1, 18 KOs) for his title at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

Frampton, 29, is moving up in weight four pounds from the 122lb division where he abandoned his IBF/WBA titles. Frampton wants to beat Santa Cruz, and then face Gary Russell Jr. and Lee Selby in unification matches. Frampton hasn’t said anything about wanting to fight newly crowned WBO featherweight champion Oscar Valdez yet, but that might be a step too far for him.

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By Scott Gilfoid: Former IBF/WBA super bantamweight champion Carl Frampton (22-0, 14 KOs) will be stepping out of the safe confines of the UK this Saturday night when he challenges the talented WBA Super World featherweight champion Leo Santa Cruz (32-0, 18 KOs) this Saturday night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

This will be the second time that the 29-year-old undefeated Frampton has fought in the United States, and this time he has a good chance of leaving the country with his first loss of his seven-year pro career.

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By Scott Gilfoid: It’s generally agreed that Carl Frampton (22-0, 14 KOs) was quite lucky to have gotten out of his last fight with his hide intact against the big punching former WBA super bantamweight champion Scott Quigg last February.

It’s pretty much a given that the only reason the 5’5” Frampton won that fight was because of Quigg not fighting hard in the first six rounds. Quigg was asleep at the wheel until the last half of the contest, when he finally woke up and realized that he was in a real fight and that he needed to throw punches.

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(Photo credit: Amanda Westcott/SHOWTIME) By Scott Gilfoid: Carl Frampton (22-0 14 KOs) has given up his IBF/WBA super bantamweight world titles in order to move up to 126 to challenge WBA Super World featherweight champion Leo Santa Cruz (32-0-1, 18 KOs) this month on July 30 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

Frampton, 29, thinks he’s been sacrificing power by draining down to fight at 122 at super bantamweight. Now that he’s moved up to featherweight at 126, he thinks he’ll have more punching power than he did in the past. I don;’t know about that.

Frampton’s problems in his fights against Scott Quigg and Alejandro Gonzalez Jr. had more to do with his inability to stand his ground and take heavy shots. Gonzalez Jr. dropped Frampton twice in their fight last year and also hurt him in the 9th.

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