Carl Frampton is getting better every fight, says Glenn McCrory
IBF champion was calm and composed
Sunday 1 March 2015 15:49, UK
Carl Frampton made his first world title defence by stopping Chris Avalos in five and, with Glenn McCrory at ringside in Belfast, we got his immediate reaction after the fight...
Eddie Hearn and Barry McGuigan have to get it on. After all, if Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao can do a deal, then surely it has to happen.
Carl Frampton is getting better and better.
It was an incredible atmosphere in the Odyssey Arena and it was a terrific performance to take your number-one challanger out in five, but it was another step up.
He looked sharper, he looked stronger and on a big stage like that, he went from challenger to champion and did it really, really well. He looked so confident, so calm.
I thought Chris Avalos surprised him in the first round but that incident in the second said it all. There was something wrong with Avalos' shoulder and while he was looking at it, he wasn't protecting himself, so Frampton jumped on him.
It had him in trouble but he didn't rush in again. I think then he realised that he was going to win but he did not get carried away, even in front of a fantastic Belfast crowd. Frampton doesn't mess around, he doesn't get carried away and he doesn't waste his energy.
Respect
He reacts so quickly that when that finish came in the fifth, it didn't take long. He saw that opportunity and then he went for it. His speed and strength were there and it was an emphatic win, it really was.
Frampton is improving in every fight and that of course, leads me into the obvious - Scott Quigg. We all want it to happen, we really do.
Believe me, those fans in Belfast want it too. The fans were full of respect for Quigg. Both he and Carl are nice guys, they don't mess about and we won't have all that trash talking if it does happen.
We all want to see it and it has to happen for those two alone, never mind us. Eddie Hearn and Barry McGuigan have to get it on. After all, if Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao can do a deal, then surely it has to happen.
