Frampton: ‘Quigg Gets Given Titles / Rigo is the Real WBA Champ

By Olly Campbell - 11/16/2015 - Comments

Carl Frampton and Scott Quigg came head-to-head today in London for the first of the 3 city press tour dates to promote their IBF/WBA 122 lb super bantamweight unification on February 27th, with Frampton continuing to assert that it is he, and not Quigg, who is the genuine world champion.

IBF boss, Frampton, believes Quigg’s team have also taken confidence in the fact that he had a less than auspicious start to his US debut last time out in July, touching down twice early against little known Mexican, Alejandro Gonzalez Jr before going on to win; events he feels brought about the fight.

“I think that’s why this fight is happening, because of my performance against Gonzalez, I think they’ve got confidence from it. I don’t think they ever wanted the fight before the Gonzalez fight,” Frampton told iFLtv.

“I think if I’d have gone out and blown Gonzalez out in two rounds, this fight wouldn’t be happening.”

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Quigg was also recently handed top tier title status with the WBA after Cuban former amateur standout, Guillermo Rigondeaux was stripped of his belt, allowing the unification to take place – something else that has provoked the ire of Frampton, given Quigg’s 2nd tier title was also ‘handed’ to him back in 2013 before his fight with Yoandris Salinas.

“I think it’s a joke,” he said regarding Quigg’s championship credentials. “He’s just been given titles. He was given his regular title, and I mean, what is a regular title? What’s regular about a world title? Then they strip Rigondeaux of his [super] title and give it Quigg? I don’t think that needed to happen for this fight, there’s enough in it to be a big fight, it didn’t need to be a unification fight.

“It’s difficult for me to call it [a unification] because I know ‘Rigo’ is the real WBA champion,” Frampton added.

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