Frampton to make US Debut

[Kirkland Laing]

He ducked Quigg and 1.5m for this. Nice.

They ducked Quigg for this.

I bet Frampton would personally love to face Quigg.

Frampton is the proper champion, is the infinitely bigger draw and would be travelling to England for the fight and Hearn is treating him like a Mexican roadsweeper. There was never a chance of a deal without Hearn doing a co promotion with McGuigan and Frampton getting at least 50% of the promotional pot, not just a cheque while Eddie makes a bundle. Hearn must have known the deal would never be acceptable but the big cheque looks good in the papers and hides the fact that it's Quigg ducking Frampton.

(Neither guy is scared of fighting the other, Hearn just doesn't want to let McGuigan have any part of the pie and Frampton feels he is quite rightly the main attraction and deserves to be compensated accordingly.)

And who is Frampton fighting anyway? Has this guy been on the telly before?

Hold up a second... Frampton won a belt from a man he had already ironed out. The only proper champ in this division is Rigo.

Team Frampton wanted a 70-30 split to fight Quigg.

Team Quigg offered a 60-40 to the winner split. Refused.

Team Quigg then pulled the stunt of offering 1.5m. Refused. (obviously Eddie knew young Carl was never gonna make close to that in any subsequent fight and was just chinning out Barry McGuigan in public).

Frampton then accused team Quigg of low balling and revealed that he thinks the fight is worth 12m. Eddie reveals that neither Carl or Barry ever attended the meetings they scheduled. Then Carl signs with Al Haymon to fight mexican road sweeper in Texas with no British TV deal in place.

That about sums it up.

McGuigan has a different story. He says initially they came to an agreement that it would be a co-promotion. Then all of a sudden it was just a straight money offer, no co-promotion. Then Hearn did the £1.5 million stunt.

Frampton can't make anything like that money fighting anybody else but neither can Quigg (or Hearn). Quigg is now fighting a guy Frampton beat twice while Frampton goes off to try and become a star in the States, the fight with Quigg obviously being a non-starter now.

I think Frampton has half his fights over there and half in Belfast where he's a big seller and makes as much as he can. If the Quigg fight happens it'll be on Team Frampton's terms at lease to some extent.