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The Independent
6 hours ago
- The Independent
Former world champion details 58 failures on the way to success
Former world champion Carl Frampton has detailed the lessons he learned over an extensive amateur and professional career, saying that he failed 58 times along the way to the top of his former profession. Catch all the latest boxing action on DAZN Former world super-bantamweight and featherweight champion Frampton, 28-3 (16), said that a fight loss in the quarterfinals of the Irish championships as an amateur gave him the impetus to focus on his training and diet for a year. The lost match, he said during his TEDx talk given in Belfast, came against Kevin Fennessy in the 2008 Seniors. After losing the match, Frampton went home where his girlfriend – now wife – asked him if he had been giving 100% of his efforts to his boxing. It was then that Frampton realised that he had not. He said: 'I had been training hard but could have been training a little bit harder. As an 18- or 19-year-old, I was giving in to peer pressure and maybe having drinks in the weekends with friends. I wasn't eating the correct foods, and obviously, in a weight-making sport, it's important that you eat the correct foods, because then I was having to crash the weight, and it was having a detrimental effect on my performance. I wasn't sleeping properly. So all these things combined added up to me putting in bad performances.' It was at that point that Frampton says that he swore that he would live and train properly for a year in order to get his boxing back on track. He added: 'I grafted, I made sacrifices. I put the head down and really just got on with things. The Irish championships come up again, quarterfinal stages again, and I meet my old friend and foe, Kevin Fennessy, at the quarterfinal stages. But this time, it was different. This time I was full of confidence because I knew I'd put in the effort required and the dedication and everything else that goes along with that.' Despite feeling pressure, Frampton stopped Fennessy in the second round of the fight when the latter's corner threw a white towel into the ring. After turning professional in 2009, Frampton would go on to win the Commonwealth, European, and IBF titles at super bantamweight. After losing to Leo Santa Cruz in 2017, Frampton moved up to featherweight where he won a unanimous decision over Nonito Donaire. After stopping Luke Jackson in Belfast, Frampton lost a unanimous decision to Josh Warrington in 2018. The loss to Santa Cruz also prompted a change in his approach, said Frampton. After realising that many of the people around him were absent after the defeat, he reduced those in his inner circle It was in the Warrington fight that Frampton once again came unstuck after believing that Warrington, 27-0 (6) at the time, did not possess the punching power to trouble him. Frampton said: 'But I got this wrong. I didn't underestimate Josh in a sense of his whole package, but I underestimated one aspect of his game, and that was that he wasn't the puncher. And boy, did I get that wrong! He bangs me with an overhand right about 30 seconds into the first round of the fight, and I feel like the roof's coming down around me. I have no idea where I am, literally don't know what's going on. And the fight continues like that for quite a while. I do well to come back and win a few rounds in the middle, but Josh kind of wins the fight at a counter, really.' The result of the fight, said Frampton, is one that still fills him with disappointment years later due to his mindset going into the bout. He believed, he said, that he could have won the fight. Overall, the lessons he learned from his career, he said, were to be accountable and honest with himself, to ask and answer questions of himself, to put his head down to work, to tighten his circle of friends, and to never underestimate an opponent. Watch the very best boxing with a DAZN subscription DAZN is the home of combat sports, broadcasting over 185 fights a year from the world's best promoters, including Matchroom, Queensberry, Golden Boy, Misfits, PFL, BKFC, GLORY and more. An Annual Saver subscription is a one-off cost of £119.99 / $224.99 (for 12 months access), that's just 64p / $1.21 per fight. There is also a Monthly Flex Pass option (cancel any time) at £24.99 / $29.99 per month. A subscription includes weekly magazine shows, comprehensive fight library, exclusive interviews, behind-the-scenes documentaries, and podcasts and vodcasts.
BBC News
10 hours ago
- BBC News
Dream night for Crusaders' hat-trick hero Bryden
Crusaders striker Fraser Bryden said he would "go to sleep" with the match ball as his first career hat-trick propelled Crusaders to a 3-1 win at 21-year-old Scot arrived at Seaview from Ayr United in July and took just two minutes to open his account for the club in last week's defeat to Carrick it was a much happier night for the north Belfast side on Tuesday as they came from a goal behind at Clandeboye Park with Bryden to the fore, but it also took two penalty saves from goalkeeper Musa Dibaga to see them home against the Seasiders who finished with nine men."It was an eventful game to say the least," Bryden told BBC Sport NI afterwards."I'm delighted to come away with the three points, which is the most important thing. It's a tough place to come and even better to get my first professional hat-trick, so a happy night. I'm going to tuck it (ball) in and go to sleep with it tonight."That was my second competitive game for the Crues and I'm enjoying so far. Hopefully every game isn't that eventful and we can tighten up defensively and not concede sloppy goals."
BBC News
12 hours ago
- BBC News
Red cards, penalty misses and Glens go top
The first set of midweek fixtures in the Irish Premiership did not disappoint as there were plenty of goals, red cards and penalty misses in the five games on moved top of the table with their third straight win, this time at home against winless Ballymena United made it two wins from two, Coleraine and Crusaders also won, the latter picking up three points against nine-man Bangor and Cliftonville and Larne played out an entertaining draw at Sport NI looks at some of the main talking points from the five fixtures. Bryden hat-trick in bonkers Bangor game Crusaders, not content with their game of the season contender in their opening game, a 4-3 loss against Carrick Rangers at Seaview, served up another crazy game against Caddell's side fought back from a goal down to claim a 3-1 victory courtesy of Fraser Bryden's hat-trick, but they were equally indebted to goalkeeper Musa Dibaga for helping them collect their first three points of the stopper, who joined from Inverness Caledonian Thistle in the summer, saved penalties from Ben Arthurs and Ben Cushnie, twice diving the right way to preserve his side's kept his cool late on to score his hat-trick and that is now four goals in two games for the striker. Crues fans will hope he can have a similar impact to that of fellow Scottish striker Kieran Offord last season and it is clear so far that he is calm and clinical in front of will be bitterly disappointed that they passed up the chance to claim a point with those two penalty cost them too as two players were sent off in the space of two minutes, not long after two members of the coaching staff also saw McGuinness was given his marching orders for a foul in midfield before substitute Matthew Ferguson was dismissed for an off the ball incident. Glens surge top as winning run continues It may only be three games into the season, but Glentoran look like they could mount a title charge this Devine's side have won their first three games, scored four goals and conceded none, showing a ruthless Stewart has been playing like he has a point to prove upon his return to the a standing ovation on Saturday for his display against Bangor, he scored his first goal since arriving back in east Belfast against Glenavon, reacting instinctively to head home the rebound from his shot that was Jenkins then slotted home a second and he will be an important player for the Glens again, especially with the injuries that are piling up which will be the only cause for concern so far for losing Patrick Hoban before the season started and David Fisher on the opening day, Ryan Cooney and Liam Burt limped off against the Lurgan Blues on are also without Dylan Connolly and Christie Pattisson through suspension so may dip into the transfer market again before the window shuts if any of those injuries turn out to be serious. Pulsating Solitude encounter ends all square Former Linfield striker Andy Waterworth described it as "the most enjoyable" Irish Premiership game he had seen for a "long time" when on co-commentary at Solitude in a rare moment in which he could catch his breath as Cliftonville and Larne fought tooth and nail to find a was end-to-end from the off in north Belfast and while Cliftonville were fast out of the traps, it was actually Larne who dominated the first half, and they certainly were not playing like a side whose manager had departed the day before the the interim charge of the reliable Gary Haveron again, the Invermen deservedly went in front through a fabulous strike from Tiernan O'Connor before goal seemed to rally Cliftonville, and they looked transformed after the break, producing their best half of football so far this Gormley equalised and then it was helter skelter stuff with chances at both ends before the contentious moment of the game Glynn was adjudged to have clipped Benji Magee as he raced into the box, with the referee awarding a penalty and sending off the defender, which incensed Reds boss Jim Magilton, who said it was a "really poor decision".Some sort of justice will have been served by PJ Morrison saving Magee's tame effort and then Dan Bent was dismissed for two yellow cards as both sides had to settle for a was probably a fair result in a classic game of two halves, although both are still searching for a first win of the season and Larne too are now on the hunt for a permanent successor to Nathan if he wants the job, will have done his chances no harm with how he set the team up and how they played at Solitude. Swifts' struggles continue Three games, three defeats, one goal scored, nine conceded and bottom of the is not the start to the season even the most pessimistic of Dungannon Swifts fans would have expected following last year's fantastic league campaign and Irish Cup influential suspended trio Gael Bigirimana, Leo Alves and Declan Dunne, the Swifts struggled again against a ruthless Coleraine side, who did the damage in the first poor defending allowed Declan McManus to open the scoring with a close-range header and Jamie Glackin to add a second with an acrobatic Rodney McAree's side improved in the second half, Coleraine held firm, recording a third consecutive clean sheet which for all their attacking flair, could be the base upon which they build their title Swifts' next three fixtures have suddenly become must not lose as they look to get their first points of the are at home against Carrick Rangers but face tricky away games against Bangor and fellow strugglers has work to do to get Swifts out of this predicament.
