FOR the second time in his career a freak accident has forced Belfast’s Carl Frampton to call off a bout during fight week. In July 2017, Andres Gutierrez slipped in the shower and suffered cuts that forced him out of a contest against “The Jackal”. On Monday night (August 5), it emerged that a large marble ornament in his hotel lobby was knocked over and landed on the 32-year-old’s left hand while he was sitting around enjoying a coffee, fracturing his fifth metacarpal.
‘IT WAS THE BEST I’VE SEEN CARL IN THE GYM. NOW THAT’S GONE’
The injury to his little finger means that his outing against Emmanuel Dominguez at Philadelphia’s Liacouras Center on Saturday (August 10) had to be spiked. It was to be the first fight of a multi-bout deal with Top Rank, and an exercise in re-establishing him in America. Although it is a cliché that every fighter trots out, the former two-weight world titlist had also stated that this was the best training camp of his career, one in which he corrected the things he was not happy with after reviewing his loss to IBF featherweight titleholder Josh Warrington in December.