CARL FRAMPTON WAS named ESPN’s Fighter of the Year last night.
Just the second European boxer to achieve the feat, the Belfast man joins the likes of Floyd Mayweather Jr., Manny Pacquiao and Bernard Hopkins as winners of the US based global broadcaster’s award.
He beat three-time winner Pacquiao to the title, as well as Vasyl Lomachenko and 2014 winner Terence Crawford.
The 29-year-old posted on his Instagram account that he was “privileged and honoured” to win the award.
“Being even considered as a fighter of the year is a huge honour for me and very humbling,” Frampton said, who is undefeated in 23 contests.
“But the thing is, I’m kicking off 2017 with a bang and it has the potential to be even better than ‘16.”
Frampton had a 2016 to remember, making history to become a two-weight world champion.
‘The Jackal” defeated the previously unbeaten Leo Santa Cruz in July to win the WBA featherweight title, following up his super-bantamweight title win over England’s Scott Quigg in February.
Subsequently, Frampton etched his name into history as he became the first Northern Ireland fighter to win world titles at two weights.
Frampton is set for a rematch with Santa Cruz in Las Vegas next month.
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He got dropped from the A team
It’s just a small bump in his career
Bit of a knob anyway
So all I need to do to get a weekend of is to enjoy an Ed Sheeran concert?
You’d have a hard time trying to enjoy it in fairness.
He might see fire over that decision. Atrocious, I know.
The integrity of soccer is ruined by the diving competitions all over the pitch. It’s more about the theatrics than the rules.
Scarlet, he went to an Ed Sheeran gig.
Awful ref anyway.
For once I agree with you Dylan , he’s nothing more then an attention seeking headline wannabe !
I wouldn’t regard him as the top referee in the premiership. Maybe it’s his dodgy hair and smarmy head that has me against him….
Lousy on mark. If he doesn’t get work soon he will only have money to buy a “lego house”
And he’ll get drunk
Give the man a break he’s human after all. Isn’t that why we love the game. We love to moan about the refs. Take that away then it’s a boring situation. One game you get the decision the next you don’t. Suck it up were all big bots and girls
Excuse my ignorance, but why tge rule that officials must travel together to and from a game?
I’d guess that it ensures if one of them was to talk to someone about the game (as in potentially bribe) they are all present, and its harder to “convince” 3 officials to cheat rather than one, and possibly one might tell the powers that be… I could be wrong but thats just a guess…
He’ll SING for his money now
Why would he be ringing a manager had he a extra ticket for ed sheeran to give him
Soft peno for Grylls for a change……Colin W@nker delighted with himself for making the call no doubt!!
Soft peno for Bear Grylls for a change!!