Carl Frampton: Creating More Than Just A Legacy

An Irishman Abroad

Jarlath Regan

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4.8 • 834 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

At present only 7% of Northern Ireland’s schools are religiously integrated. Carl Frampton is not content with changing the history of Irish boxing. The next part of his life is focused on helping others and Northern Ireland become a better place to live in for future generations. This week he sat down with Jarlath to talk about how he soared to the highest heights in the ring, how he almost quit at 21 years old and why boxing continues to be dogged by corruption. Carl Frampton has always had one eye on the bigger picture and in this candid interview he opens up about what has changed in Northern Ireland in the last two years and he has completely changed his mind about ever leaving. To hear every episode in full and to gain access to the entire back-catalogue of over 600 Irishman Abroad episodes that are not available on iTunes for just the price of a pint every month visit www.patreon.com/irishmanabroad Supplementary research provided by John Meagher. Our charity partner is jigsawonline.ie. In these tricky times, Jigsaw provides a range of resources, advice and care for your people to help them strengthen their mental health and the skills needed to navigate life. Please visit their website and consider making a donation. For updates on future episodes and live shows follow @jarlath on Twitter, visit www.jigser.com or email the show directly on [email protected]. Disclaimer: All materials contained within this podcast are copyright protected. Third party reuse and/or quotation in whole or in part is prohibited unless direct credit and/or hyperlink to the Irishman Abroad podcast is clearly and accurately provided.

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0:00.0	What do you believe made you different though?
0:05.9	I was a shy, timid kid when I get into boxing, but I was always really competitive and
0:11.9	I always wanted to win at any cost, even when I was a youngster playing football and when I
0:16.6	was boxing or playing any sport in the street. I wanted to win and I suppose that competitiveness that
0:23.3	I had helped but I don't know it's there's a great sense of being in a fight and coming out
0:32.4	this sounds bizarre but coming out of a hard fight were your feet, your eyes are almost closed, your hands are
0:40.1	busted, your nose is broken, you're pissing blood because of the body shots you've taken
0:44.9	and you've come out the other side and you're okay. I don't know, there's a real sense of
0:49.4	pride in that. There's fighters just love to be involved in these wars.
0:53.9	Hello there and welcome to the Carl Frampton episode of an Irish man abroad.
0:58.7	What a pleasure it is to have this man finally on the podcast.
1:02.5	Carl Frampton is of course a former professional boxer from Northern Ireland
1:07.4	and he fought for many, many years from 2009 to April 2021. So he is really
1:14.6	just embracing his retirement as we sit down for this conversation. He was of course a two-weight
1:21.4	world champion and narrowly, narrowly fell short of becoming a three-weight world chaffling, but he did hold the WBA Unified and the IBF Super Bantamweight titles between 2014 and 2016 and the WBA Super Featherweight title from 2016-2017.
1:41.3	He also held the WBO interim Featherweight title in 2018 and he represented Northern Ireland at European and Commonwealth, Superbantamweight, winning the titles there between 2011 and 2014. This man knows work and knows resilience and toughness better than anyone maybe we've spoken to on the podcast in the eight years of making it.
2:07.6	2016, he was named Fighter of the Year by Ring magazine, the Boxing Writers Association and ESPN.
2:16.0	But here we are having this discussion as all of that is behind him.
2:21.0	But it seems to me that Carl Frampton's image of what a champion should be is more than just
2:27.7	somebody who had a career, won a title and then disappears into the wilderness. He's doing
2:33.3	so much for Northern Ireland and for
2:37.7	integrated education in Northern Ireland. He, friend of the show, Patrick Keelty and
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