Carl Frampton
Carl Frampton MBE (born 21 February 1987) is a Northern Irish former professional boxer who competed from 2009 to 2021. He held world championships in two weight classes, including the WBA (Unified) and IBF super-bantamweight titles between 2014 and 2016, and the WBA (Super) featherweight title from 2016 to 2017. He also held the WBO interim featherweight title in 2018. At regional level, he held the European and Commonwealth super-bantamweight titles between 2011 and 2014.
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Frampton at Stormont, 2013 | |||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 February 1987 | ||||||||||||||
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| Height | 5 ft 5 in (165 cm) | ||||||||||||||
| Reach | 62 in (157 cm) | ||||||||||||||
| Stance | Orthodox | ||||||||||||||
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| Total fights | 31 | ||||||||||||||
| Wins | 28 | ||||||||||||||
| Wins by KO | 16 | ||||||||||||||
| Losses | 3 | ||||||||||||||
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By winning the featherweight world title in 2016, Frampton became the first boxer from Northern Ireland to have held world titles in two weight classes. This earned him Fighter of the Year awards from The Ring magazine, the Boxing Writers Association of America and ESPN.
In December 2019, Frampton was ranked as the world's fourth-best active super-featherweight by BoxRec and fifth-best active featherweight by The Ring. He retired after losing in his WBO junior-lightweight title fight against Jamel Herring.