The Day of the Jackal: Frampton dethrones Santa Cruz to become two-weight world champion after toe-to-toe thriller in New York
IN NEW YORK: Carl Frampton, the ultimate fighting Irishman, mounted one of the most monumental performances in the history of the British ring to win a fight of extraordinary courage in the mecca of boxing. That the Belfast Jackal became the first Ulsterman to win world titles at two different weights became almost incidental to his feat in wresting the featherweight championship from a champion hewn from the legend of Mexican warriors. Leo Santa Cruz, a three-division world champion no less, had wondered whether Frampton, a fabled counter-puncher at super-bantamweight, would be willing to go to do ferocious battle at featherweight.
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