Carl Frampton | “The rise of YouTuber fights is a REAL concern for boxing”
Up Front
Folding Pocket
4.6 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
For this episode Simon sits down with a boxer who lit up his sport, in divisions that don’t always get the attention they deserve. Rising from the streets of Tigers Bay, Belfast, Carl ‘The Jackal’ Frampton would go on to become a two weight world champion, brining a noisy and partisan crowd with him no matter the venue.
Carl joins the show to discuss his action packed career and his feud with the McGuigans whilst also giving his unique perspective on the current boxing landscape ahead of KSI and Tommy Fury’s showdown.
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| 0:00.0 | How do you turn down $30 million to fight someone who's making their boxing debut? |
| 0:04.4 | Oh, no, you don't? |
| 0:05.0 | You know what I mean? |
| 0:06.3 | He irritated me, yeah. |
| 0:07.5 | And he made this remark, actually, at one of the press conferences about me being born with a silver spoon. |
| 0:12.3 | Far from the truth. |
| 0:14.3 | For me, boxing was my way of being integrated with the opposing community, the Catholics. |
| 0:28.6 | Can you see a situation where you and the McGuiggins ever let bygones be back, or you, forgive? You get the few exceptions guys like Chris Eubank Jr. who came from privilege, but there's not too many who have the same story as him. |
| 0:36.6 | This is up front with me, Simon Jordan. |
| 0:38.4 | I believe there are a lot of vacuous, uninformed, unchallenged opinions out there. |
| 0:42.1 | I want to get to the bottom line and cut through the nonsense. |
| 0:44.9 | So with this podcast with William Hill, I'm going to get people with strong views who |
| 0:48.5 | think they can stand them up to proper scrutiny. |
| 0:51.0 | There's a good chance I might learn something along the way, and more importantly, |
| 0:55.4 | so might you. |
| 1:03.1 | Joining me in today's episode, a boxer who lit up his sport in divisions that don't always get the attention they deserve. Whether on these aisles or across the pond, he would always |
| 1:07.4 | typically draw a passionate partisan support. Rising from the streets of Tigers Bay in Northern Ireland to achieve greatness in the ring by becoming a two-weight world champion. The Jackal, Carl Frampton. |
| 1:19.8 | How are you, Simon? Welcome top front. Nice to see you. One of the stable diets of the shows is boxing. I have a great love of boxing. My two great loves in sport are boxing in football and I'm edging towards boxing. |
| 1:31.3 | That's why you're an exalted company. We've had Tony Bellew, we've had Johnny Nelson, Carl Frotch, |
| 1:35.3 | Blyjo Saunders, Frank Warren, a mate of yours, Barry McGregum, and now you. |
| 1:40.3 | One of the first things that we do when we're talking to you guys, because I'm so intrigued about the psyche of what makes a fighter, because it's such a unique sport to go into a ring, to go into the business of hurt and know what comes by dispensing hurt and receiving it comes from a certain psyche. So I always ask you guys straight away the question which is what is your |
| 2:02.7 | why and by that I mean what makes Carl Frampton the person that's sitting in front of me now |
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