Frampton Comes Alive in 2014! Wins IBF Super Bantamweight Title in Belfast
By Robert Brizel, Head RCM Boxing Correspondent
Frampton Comes Alive! Is a double live album by English rock musician Peter Frampton released in 1976, which became one of the best-selling live albums in the United States. Frampton Comes Alive in 2014! is this author’s invigoration of the original title, this time in reference to Irish fight Carl Frampton, 19-0, 13 knockouts, Belfast, Northern Ireland, who put forth a solid deserved performance last night to win the International Boxing Federation Super Bantamweight world title from Kiko Martinez over 12 rounds.
Martinez, now 31-8, 23 knockouts, Alicante, Spain, is a short 5’3” pug with a 66 inch reach who fights inside rough and tough, but it was not enough against the 5’5” Frampton, who has only a 62 inch reach but tagged Martinez with his jabs all night long. This bout was a rematch of the 2013 ninth round TKO scored by Frampton. Martinez did better, but he was not winning rounds. One judge gave Martinez three rounds, the other two none. Both fighters incurred facial cuts from clashing of heads, but the cuts did not figure into the bout’s outcome. Frampton did significant body work as well, and dropped Martinez in the fifth round with a nice right hand. Frampton did not, however, find the means or the attack to put Martinez away, do the bout went the distance before the title changed hands.
WBA World Super Bantamweight champion Scott Quigg of Lancashire, United Kingdom, is rumored to be next in Frampton’s future. Also possible for Frampton’s divisional futurearelucrative unification bouts with WBO World Super Bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux or WBC World Super Bantamweight champion Leo Santa Cruz. Either bout proposal could become a reality in 2015 for the winner of Frampton versus Quigg. However, Quigg must first defeat challenger Stefane Jamoya of Belgium, a former European Bantamweight champion, at Manchester Arena on September 13.
Result: Carl Frampton Win 12 Kiko Martinez, Super Bantamweights
Frampton wins the IBF World Super Bantamweight title.
Scoring: 119-108, 119-108, 118-111 for Frampton.Referee: Steve Gray.
Martinez was warned by referee Steve Gray in the fifth round for throwing a punch at Frampton on the canvas, after Frampton accidentally slipped to the canvas. No penalty. Frampton scored a knockdown of Martinez in the fifth round.
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