A massive week in
British boxing has just kicked off with Carl ‘the Jackal’ Frampton fighting
Scott Quigg for the unified WBA (super) and IBF super-bantamweight titles. The
build-up to this fight has been unbelievable and every boxing fan out there
will be praying that the fight can live up to its billing. The two are set to
lock horns on Saturday in a fight that has been in the making for four and a
half years.
Bookies slight
favourite, Carl Frampton, has had an unbelievable career so far. He, single-handily,
has managed to sell out arenas in Northern Ireland which is extremely
impressive considering he is a super-bantamweight and managed to win the IBF
world title in only his 19th fight beating Kiko Martinez in a unanimous
decision. Now currently 21-0, the fighter from Northern Ireland will be looking
to give Quigg a boxing lesson come fight night.
Scott Quigg has had a
relatively quiet career up until this point. He is currently undefeated on
31-0-2, and had arguably not fought the calibre of fighters that Frampton had
fought against until he stopped Kiko Martinez in the second round back in July.
The questions hanging over Quigg's head is whether he can make the step up in class required and whether he can deal with the pressure of being in a huge fight.
Some pundits have
claimed that 2015 was the year where the tide turned in Quigg’s favour after Frampton got
dropped twice in the first round by Mexican, Alejandro Gonzalez Jr. out in the
US who then went on to lose his next fight against a relative nobody.
There is no doubt that
Quigg and his team have had the better of Frampton in the build-up to this
fight and it very much has the feeling of Froch-Groves 1 where Groves’ supreme
confidence really offset Froch that night. However the difference is that
Frampton is not taking Quigg as lightly as Froch did with Groves and in my opinion
Frampton has the beating of Quigg.
Frampton’s all-round
boxing ability is in a different league to Quigg’s. He can box on the back-foot
far better, his ring IQ is superior and he has the ability to make adjustments
in the ring which Quigg simply will not be able to do as well. There is always
the danger that Frampton could walk onto one of Quigg’s power punches however in my opinion he is just too smart and cute to do that.
Prediction:
Frampton on points
Tom Eckett
@boxingguru44
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