“We see how much of a big deal it is that people make of the undisputed heavyweight champion when Oleksander Usyk beat Daniel Dubois at the weekend. Josh Taylor was undisputed in 18 fights – that’s unbelievable. Hard to fathom, really.<\/p>\n
“So I think that’s what people should remember Josh for. It literally doesn’t happen unless you’re someone like a Vasiliy Lomachenko or a Usyk or someone like that. That’s the calibre of fighter that achieves this.<\/p>\n
“Josh Taylor becoming undisputed champion in 18 fights in a marquee division, not down at light-flyweight where nobody fights or anything like that, a marquee division, should be recognised as one of the great British sporting feats ever.<\/p>\n
“Undisputed light-welterweight champion in 18 fights is Hall of Fame behaviour, I think.”<\/p>\n
Taylor and Frampton, a former two-weight world champion, trained alongside each other when both were under Shane McGuigan’s wing, with the Scot making his professional debut on a show headlined by Frampton in Texas back in 2015.<\/p>\n
“I was there the whole way, pretty much,” Frampton told BBC Scotland.<\/p>\n
“Josh is a great friend of mine and he’s a good person as well. And he does a lot of good things behind the scenes, which people don’t see. Josh is just a good fella.<\/p>\n
“I’m very, very proud that I was able to witness some of his greatness up close and personal.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“We see how much of a big deal it is that people make of the undisputed heavyweight champion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-14849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}