Frampton stops Avalos in 5th!

By Boxing News - 02/28/2015 - Comments

frampton44By Scott Gilfoid: IBF super bantamweight champion Carl Frampton (20-0, 14 KOs) retained his IBF title tonight with a 5th round TKO victory over #1 IBF Chris Avalos (25-3, 19 KOs) on Saturday night at the Odyssey Arena, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

Frampton hurt the 25-year-old Avalos with a right hand in the 5th. Frampton then flurried on Avalos until referee Howard John Foster stopped the bout with Avalos still on his feet trying to fight back at 1:33 of the round. Before the stoppage, Frampton threw Avalos to the canvas when he attempted to clinch him.

You can make a strong argument that the referee halted the fight prematurely, because Avalos was still technically on his feet and trying to fight back.

Frampton appeared to hurt Avalos at the end of the 4th round when he hit Avalos after the bell. Frampton got away with the late hit.

“It was very easy. He was very slow,” Frampton said about Avalos after the fight.

Frampton hurt Avalos twice in the fight with arm bars that he used to crank on Avalos’ right arm. In the 2nd round, Avalos turned his back on Frampton after he was hurt by an arm bar while they were in a clinch. Instead of the referee Howard John Foster calling a time out due to Avalos’ injury, he let the fight continue. Frampton then charged Avalos and hit him on the side of his head while he was facing away from him. It didn’t look very sporting from Frampton.

Frampton’s manager Barry McGuigan spoke of wanting to put together a fight between Frampton and WBA 122 pound champion Scott Quigg in the near future. However, McGuigan kept saying that Quigg has to “know that we are the draw” and it didn’t sound like the negotiations will go well when/if McGuigan sits down with Quigg’s promoter Eddie Hearn try and make the fight. Quigg said he wants the fight to take place at a neutral venue, but it’s still unclear whether that will happen.

“This guy is the best super bantamweight in the world and he’s going to prove it,” McGuigan said.

I think McGuigan would get a strong argument from Leo Santa Cruz, Quigg, and Guillermo Rigondeaux to refute what McGuigan is saying. I mean, it would be nice to see if McGuigan were willing to let Frampton face Rigondeaux so that boxing fans could test whether his theory is correct, but if McGuigan feels that Rigondeaux doesn’t bring anything to the table in terms of fans, then all we can do is listen to McGuigan talk rather than seeing Frampton actually tested.

“I would leave Belfast” Frampton said about being willing to fight Quigg perhaps in England.

If the Quigg fight doesn’t get made next for Frampton, then we’ll have to be content seeing him fight another contender in the IBF’s top 15 rankings. I don’t see Quigg and his promoter Eddie Hearn agreeing to be dictated to in the negotiations with McGuigan and Frampton. As such, I see Frampton winding up facing someone like Shingo Wake or Kid Galahad next. It definitely won’t be Rigondeaux or Santa Cruz. Neither of those fights are going to happen.

Other boxing results on the card:

Viktor Plotnykov UD 12 Denton Vassell
Dillian Whyte TKO 4 Beka Lobjanidze
Conrad Cummings UD 8 Roberto Palenzuela



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