After having a good first round Kiko got too confident and got caught cold against Quigg. Everyone can be put on their arse early but to put someone down in the later rounds is more impressive to me.expe wrote:He said it was a great punch, but Frampton hit him harder. They both walked Martinez onto a big shot as he came forward, Frampton's put him down and when he got up he staggered backwards and had to be held up by the ropes, Quigg hurt him, then had to follow up with a load more to put him down, he got up, another flurry put him down again before he was stopped on his feet by Terry O'Connor. It isn't unreasonable to say that Frampton's the bigger puncher.Boxerbeetle wrote:I never ever believe former opponents. That's probably just Kiko's way of making himself feel better about getting ko'd in 2 by Quigg - he can put it down to a lucky punch.
Looking back it was a poor stoppage from O'Connor too, Martinez gets up and he just waves it off without looking at him, didn't ask him to walk forward or anything, don't know why he bothered with the count, clearly had already decided to stop it. Kiko may well have been done, but he should have at least taken a proper look at him before calling it off.
This is going to be a great fight. Quigg was getting outboxed by Salinas and I thought he was lucky to get a draw, he has improved since then but Frampton is better boxer then Salinas he is a very smooth and natural operator. Quigg has a really big size advantage though and throws to the body well so I don't think Carl with have an easy night.
