After winning the world title in front of his home support, Crocker had said he would be willing to fight Conor Benn “anywhere”.<\/p>\n
However, Benn has stepped up to middleweight to fight Chris Eubank Jr and Frampton says dropping back to welterweight “would be very difficult”.<\/p>\n
Frampton says a compromise in weight could be made and the fight would “put Lewis’ profile into a different realm completely”.<\/p>\n
“It would make a lot of money, but I don’t think Conor Benn is going to box at welterweight again,” Frampton said.<\/p>\n
“But if a fight like that can be made I would say to take it with both hands. It would be a very winnable fight for Lewis and there would be plenty of dough on the line.<\/p>\n
“You have to remember that Lewis isn’t a small welterweight, so maybe a fight could be made at light middleweight.”<\/p>\n
Frampton says that being world champion makes arranging big fights “a little bit easier” and he hopes to see Crocker take on a unification bout in the future.<\/p>\n
“Whatever happens in Lewis’ career, he can call himself a world champion.<\/p>\n
“I would like to see a few defences and maybe a unification. He’s very capable of all that.<\/p>\n
“I hope he keeps continuing to win and coming back to Belfast, that’s important.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After winning the world title in front of his home support, Crocker had said he would be willing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-173834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}