{"id":172370,"date":"2025-06-10T07:29:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T07:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/172370\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T07:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T07:29:12","slug":"frampton-admits-satisfaction-in-knowing-many-people-dont-really-like-his-former-manager-mcguigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/172370\/","title":{"rendered":"Frampton admits \u2018satisfaction\u2019 in knowing \u2018many people don\u2019t really like\u2019 his former manager McGuigan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaking to talkSPORT, the 38-year-old admitted his previous friendship with fellow boxer McGuigan was \u201ccompletely gone\u201d.<\/p>\n

Frampton was quizzed by hosts \u2014 former footballer Leon McKenzie and cricket player Steve Harmison \u2014 about the souring of his relationship with McGuigan, his regrets and his risk of dementia.<\/p>\n

After the partnership between Frampton and his former trainers and promoters in Cyclone Promotions broke down after eight years in 2017, the two sued each other in Belfast\u2019s High Court.<\/p>\n

\"Barry<\/p>\n

Barry McGuigan in action against WBA champion Eusebio Pedroza during their world title bout at Loftus Road<\/p>\n

Frampton walked after his fight with Andres Gutierrez in Belfast that July was called off.<\/p>\n

McGuigan claimed the protege he had treated like a son was in breach of contract by quitting Cyclone.<\/p>\n

The \u00a36m legal battle was settled in November 2020 after former two-weight champion Frampton alleged McGuigan had withheld earnings from major bouts staged in Northern Ireland, England and the US during his career.<\/p>\n

He also claimed McGuigan used some of the earnings for personal expenses, with alleged holidays.<\/p>\n

His lawyers had alleged he had been signed up to a \u201cslave contract\u201d.<\/p>\n

Speaking to talkSPORT, Frampton claimed he was yet to be sued \u201cfor saying anything incorrect\u201d about McGuigan in his autobiography.<\/p>\n

\u201cOften a critique that gets fired back to me is, \u2018Well, this is one side of the story. This is Frampton\u2019s side of the story\u2019,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd my answer to that is why has Barry not told his side? And I think I know the answer. He hasn\u2019t really come out and told his side to the story. I go into a lot of detail in the book and I\u2019ve yet to receive a legal letter off someone trying to sue me for saying anything incorrect.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo although I did have a real friendship [and] fondness of these guys and respect as well, all that\u2019s completely gone.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had this real resentment for them and it\u2019s dwindled now. I mean, we\u2019re never going to have a relationship but within the boxing game, I get enough satisfaction in knowing that there\u2019s a lot of people in this game who don\u2019t really like them and they know what they\u2019re like. So that\u2019ll do for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Carl<\/p>\n

Carl Frampton<\/p>\n

Recent statements by McGuigan also suggest that any reconciliation is unlikely. Asked how he felt about Frampton by the Sunday Times last year, McGuigan said: \u201cJust a disappointment. Pretty deep disappointment.<\/p>\n

\u201cI took him into my home; made him part of my family.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t take a penny off him for over two years [until] he won the Commonwealth title.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe [Frampton] can say what he wants but he knows he could not have achieved anything without me or my family and the work that we put into him.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to the feud with McGuigan, Frampton also spoke about some regrets in his career, mainly when two members of his wife\u2019s, Christine\u2019s, family died.<\/p>\n

\"Carl<\/p>\n

Carl Frampton and Barry McGuigan at a reception outside Belfast City Hall after Frampton became IBF super-bantamweight world champion in 2014 (Pacemaker)<\/p>\n

News Catch Up – Tuesday 10th June<\/p>\n

\u201cI do have some regrets. There were members of my wife\u2019s family who passed away while I was in the middle of camp,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow these were kind of at the start of camp and I was training in London at the time and I was persuaded not to go home because I need to be in camp, I can\u2019t go home, you pick up bugs on the flights and stuff. And I was just thinking like, you know, one day off to go back, I\u2019ll be back in that evening, back in the camp.<\/p>\n

\u201cI need to be there for my wife who\u2019s lost two close family members and I allowed other people to persuade me not to do that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt like, I mean, I was a man at that stage. I was a grown up, I had children and stuff, but I felt like I didn\u2019t stand up for myself enough.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just did what I was told. There were just times where I feel like I should have been a bit more vocal and had my own say.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been [directly affected] by issues with it and I know other people who have been directly affected.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know friends of mine, family members of my wife who\u2019ve taken their own lives and stuff. It\u2019s horrible, talking about the funerals that I missed, one of them was that.\u201d<\/p>\n

With boxers at increased risk of dementia, Frampton revealed he was \u201cnot scared\u201d by the prospect.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t give me fear. I feel like I\u2019ll get it at some point because of what I\u2019ve done.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking to talkSPORT, the 38-year-old admitted his previous friendship with fellow boxer McGuigan was \u201ccompletely gone\u201d. Frampton was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[2378,1935,21104,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-172370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-belfast","9":"tag-boxing","10":"tag-carl-frampton-mbe","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114657897005621522","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}