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Carl Frampton’s interest is piqued after Léo Santa Cruz retains WBC title | Carl Frampton’s interest is piqued after Léo Santa Cruz retains WBC title |
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Carl Frampton, who won the International Boxing Federation super-bantamweight title with an impressive points win over Kiko Martínez in Belfast this month, will have watched Léo Santa Cruz’s quick destruction of his former sparring partner, Manuel Roman, with considerable interest. | |
Santa Cruz, who retained the World Boxing Council super-bantamweight title in his ninth world-title contest and is unbeaten in 28 fights, is on the Irishman’s radar. | |
He said before the fight that Frampton, then Scott Quigg, who retained his diluted World Boxing Association version of the championship by stopping the moderate late substitute Stephane Jamboye of Belgium in three rounds in Manchester on Friday, are his preferred opponents before he goes after the estimable Cuban Guillermo Rigondeaux. | |
Less than a minute into the second round it was over, Roman toppled by a chopping right that detonated like a bomb behind his left ear. Santa Cruz, born in Mexico 26 years ago and living in California, is known as Teremoto, or Earthquake. He certainly made the earth move for his old friend Roman. | |
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