EASTER: GOUGE BAN WON’T SINK SINCKLER
DAVID HAYE has vowed to retire from boxing unless he can “emphatically” beat Tony Bellew in their grudge heavyweight rematch.
FORMER England star Nick Easter has told Kyle Sinckler to take his seven-week gouging ban “on the chin” and learn from it.
The Harlequins and Lions prop will miss England’s three autumn Tests after being suspended until November 21 for making contact with the eye of Northampton’s Michael Paterson.
Quins boss John Kingston insisted yesterday that Sinckler, 24, is not “some sort of thug who walks around doing what he wants to anyone”. And Easter agrees.
“Kyle is sometimes CARL FRAMPTON will take on Horacio Garcia in Belfast next month – his first appearance in front of his hometown fans since February 2015. “This is a fight that really excites me,” said the two-weight world champ (left), whose last outing was in January when he lost his WBA super-featherweight title to Leo Santa Cruz.
“Garcia will definitely come and have a go. He’s a typical Mexican warrior, he’s tough and game.”
The November 18 fight at perceived wrongly,” said the Quins defence coach (left). “He is an incredible talent who has had a hell of a year, but is still relatively raw. “He knows that to play to any decent standard, particularly in his position, you have to play on the edge. What he has to the SSE Arena is Frampton’s first since parting with Barry and Shane McGuigan to team up with Frank Warren and trainer Jamie Moore.
“It will be good to get a fight in against a live opponent before I get one of the big boys in the new year,” he said. understand is what’s good for the team and what’s counterproductive.”
Easter added: “He said to me today, ‘I’ve just got to take it on the chin haven’t I?’ I said, ‘Yeah you have’.”
and Lions scrumhalf Rhys Webb has rejected a new deal at Ospreys and is set to sign for Toulon.