Scott Quigg

Kiko Martinez: Frampton beats Quigg

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frampton3By Scott Gilfoid: Former IBF 122lb champion Kiko Martinez is predicting a victory for IBF super bantamweight champion Carl Frampton (21-0, 14 KOs) in his unification match against WBA World 122lb champion Scott Quigg (31-0-2, 23 KOs) in 11 days from now on February 27 at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, UK.

Martinez, 29, has a pretty good idea of what both fighters are capable of doing inside the ring, as he’s lost to both guys by knockout. Frampton twice beat Martinez in 2013 and 2014. Quigg defeated Martinez last year in stopping him in the 2nd round in July 2015.

To Martinez’s credit, he’s won his last three fights since then and will be challenging for a world title on February 27 against the talented WBA Super World featherweight champion Leo Santa Cruz at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California.

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Rigondeaux still wants Frampton-Quigg winner

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rigondeaux5By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten Cuban star Guillermo Rigondeaux (16-0, 10 KOs) will be anxiously waiting on the outcome of this month’s unification fight between WBA 122lb champion Scott Quigg (31-0-2, 23 KOs) and IBF champion Carl Frampton (21-0, 14 KOs) in hopes that he can face the winner of the contest.

However, it’s quite likely that Rigondeaux will be ignored by the winner of that fight, as they both seem more interested in fighting guys that they match up better against rather signing on for a fight that they would surely lose and lose badly.

Rigondeaux has a fight next month against UK domestic level fighter Jazza Dickens (21-, 6 KOs) on March 12 at the Echo Arena in Liverpool, UK. It’s kind of a stay busy fight for Rigondeaux rather than a meaningful. Rigondeaux’s last two opponents Drian Francisco and Hisashi Amagasa would likely wipe the deck with Dickens with ease.

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Loeffler: Canelo-Khan winner has 15 days to agree to Golovkin fight or they’ll get strippped

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Image: Loeffler: Canelo-Khan winner has 15 days to agree to Golovkin fight or they’ll get stripppedBy Dan Ambrose: IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler says the winner of the May 7 fight between WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) and Amir Khan (31-3, 19 KOs) will have 15 days to decide whether they’ll defend the WBC 160lb title against Golovkin next.

If they choose not to face him, then they’ll be stripped of the title by the World Boxing Council for failing to face Golovkin, the mandatory challenger. According to Loeffler, they have it in writing that the winner of the Canelo-Khan fight must make a decision whether to face GGG.

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Hearn says Quigg will finish Frampton in a “brutal” fashion

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quigg6666By Scott Gilfoid” WBA Super World super bantamweight champion Scott Quigg’s promoter Eddie Hearn is predicting that he’ll be giving IBF super bantamweight champion Carl Frampton (21-0, 14 KOs) a real thrashing in their bout on February 27 and he’ll finish the Irish fighter in a “brutal” fashion at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, UK.

Most boxing fans see the Frampton-Quigg fight as a 50-50 affair that really could go either way. Neither of these guys have anyone that you can call a good fighter yet. They’ve both been winning, which is good, but they have stepped it up yet and faced the best like Guillermo Rigondeaux, Nonito Donaire or Leo Santa Cruz.

Yes, I realize that Santa Cruz moved up in weight to featherweight, but he would likely jump at the chance to fight the winner of the Frampton vs. Quigg fight if it were offered to him. I’m not holding my breath waiting for that to happen though.

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Rigondeaux: Frampton and Quigg are cowards!

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Image: Rigondeaux: Frampton and Quigg are cowards!By Scott Gilfoid: Former WBA/WBO super bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux (16-0, 10 KOs) has a nice little mismatch scheduled next month on March 12 against British fighter Jazza Dickens (21-1, 6 KOs) in a 10 round but on the undercard of the lightweight contest between WBO champion Terry Flanagan and Derry Mathews at the Echo Arena in Liverpool, UK.

Rigondeaux is hoping to get the winner of the February 27 fight between IBF 122lb champion Carl Frampton and WBA “regular” super bantamweight champion Scott Quigg. Rigondeux sees both of them as cowards for choosing not to fight him all this time, and he’s hoping that he’ll finally get a chance to fight the winner of that fight.

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Rigondeaux not likely to get Frampton-Quigg winner

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Image: Rigondeaux not likely to get Frampton-Quigg winnerBy Scott Gilfoid: The WBA recently announced that the winner of the February 27th fight between Carl Frampton and Scott Quigg will need to fight the unbeaten WBA Champion in Recess Guillermo Rigondeaux (16-0, 10 KOs) by July 27th of this year. While that may have sounded nice initially if you are a Rigondeaux fan, it doesn’t mean that the Quigg vs. Frampton winner will wind up facing Rigondeaux.

What it means unfortunately is that the winner of the Frampton-Quigg fight will likely hastily vacate the WBA title after their fight so that they do not need to face Rigondeux. Since the Frampton vs. Quigg fight will have both the IBF and WBA titles on the line, the winner of the fight will be able to keep the IBF title and give up the WBA strap in order not to have to face Rigondeaux.

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Rigondeaux could face Frampton-Quigg winner

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rigondeaux5By Scott Gilfoid: The winner of the February 27th fight between WBA super bantamweight champion Scott Quigg (31-0-2, 23 KOs) and IBF 122lb champion Carl Frampton (21-0, 14 KOs) must face WBA “Champion in recess” Guillermo Rigondeaux (16-0, 10 KOs) by July 27th of this year or else their WBA belt will be stripped from them. Quigg and Frampton will be fighting a unification bout on 2/27 at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, UK.

The winner of the Frampton-Quigg fight will hold both the IBF and WBA titles. By having the WBA belt, it will create a heavy burden on the winner of the fight because they’ll need to face arguably the best fighter in the 122lb division in Rigondeaux if they want to keep the title.

The World Boxing Association are saying that the winner must face Rigondeaux. The only way they can escape the fight is to vacate the WBA belt, which I see a likely scenario unfortunately.

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Froch talks Frampton-Quigg Sky Box Office fight

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framptonBy Scott Gilfoid: Well, if boxing fans want to see the February 27th fight between IBF super bantamweight champion Carl Frampton (21-0, 14 KOs) and WBA 122lb champ Scott Quigg (31-0-2, 23 KOs), they’re going to need to dig deep and pay to see it on Sky Box Office, as the fight will now be pay-per-view despite there not being anything listed as far as the undercard goes for their fight at the Manchester, Arena in Manchester, UK. The tickets are already sold out for the fight.

The recently retired fighter Carl Froch will be working as a commentator for Sky for the fight, and he sees the Frampton-Quigg fight as a 50-50 affair and he’s sitting on the fence as far as who will win the contest.

“It is a genuine 50-50 fight,” Froch said to skysports.com. “People might have had Carl Frampton down as the favorite in the past, but I am not so sure now.”

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Quigg: Frampton came back from America with his tail between his legs

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Carl Frampton vs Alejandro Gonzalez jrBy Scott Gilfoid: Scott Quigg (31-0-2, 23 KOs) thinks IBF super bantamweight champion Carl Frampton (21-0, 14 KOs) had gotten a little too big for his britches recently with his ego souring sky high after a series of wins that he’d accumulated.

After going to the United States and being dropped twice by little known Alejandro Gonzalez Jr (25-3-2, 15 KOs) in their fight last July, Quigg thinks Frampton got a good dose of humility.

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