Frampton: I’ll be in the ring by Xmas.. & pack Windsor in 2018

Jackal’s fighting talk after Warren deal

CARL Frampton has promised fans he will be back fighting in Belfast before the end of the year.

The Jackal revealed yesterday he has put pen to paper with a new promoter after parting company with Barry Mcguigan and Cyclone Promotions last month.

The 30-year-old said: “I’m delighted to announce I have signed a promotional agreement with Frank Warren with my fights to be shown solely on BT Sport in the UK.

“This is a deal I believe will give me the best chance to have massive fights that I crave and I have been guaranteed I will be fighting at Windsor Park next summer.”

Carl, from Tigers Bay in North Belfast, received a number of approaches from the US and UK.

He added: “It really came down to two very similar offers from Eddie Hearn and Frank Warren. But after some hard thinking I felt

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the overall package Frank Warren and BT Sport were offering me was the deciding factor.

“They are going to have me as one of the faces of boxing on BT which is a real honour for me and that was never going to happen with Sky who obviously have Anthony Joshua as their main man.”

Frampton said penning the deal, which he agreed alongside his new advisers MTK, is a “weight off his shoulders” and he can now focus on his homecoming fight which was called off in July.

The dad of two also revealed details of the bout, which will take place in the coming months, will be announced later this week.

In his Sunday Life column, he added: “I’m desperate to kick on and have a fight before Christmas and I can confirm I will be fighting in Belfast.

“My homecoming ended up being a mess in July when Andres Guttierrez fell in the shower after I hadn’t made the 9st featherweight limit.

“But now I suppose it’s the homecoming two and I’ll have more details about the deal later this week at a press conference.”

Frampton is hoping his next bout will launch him towards a world title shot.

A former two-weight champion, the Jackal lost his WBA super featherweight crown to Leo Santa Cruz at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas in January.

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