The McGuigan-Frampton feud lingers on
Barry McGuigan has fired shots at Carl Frampton by claiming that the former two division world champion could not have achieved anything without the help of him and his family.
In 2009, McGuigan’s Cyclone Promotions promoted Carl Frampton and it was a fruitful partnership that soon saw him win world titles under the tutelage of Barry’s trainer son, Shane, in super-bantamweight and featherweight in 2014 and 2016 by defeating Kiko Martinez and Leo Santa Cruz respectively.
Their partnership infamously soured in 2017, however, when a planned fight with Andres Gutierrez fell through and eventually lead to Frampton’s departure from McGuigan’s camp. Since then, their relationship has deteriorated into hostility, culminating in a legal dispute over payments.
Speaking in the Times, McGuigan went on the offensive and said he didn’t charge Frampton for his services to start with and that he would have got nowhere without his son Shane training him.
“I didn’t take a penny off him for over two years [until] he won the Commonwealth title. That is it. We’ve gone on. Shane has produced champion after champion.
“He [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.”
The multi-million-pound legal dispute between the two was settled back in 2020, but it is clear the animosity between the two very much remains all these years later.