The increase from 122 pounds to 126 pounds to take Santa Cruz’s belt only helped him, Frampton said. “I feel like a fully-fledged featherweight,” Frampton, the first fighter from Northern Ireland to win belts in two different weight classes, said on a recent teleconference. And I feel like at the end I'm going to get the win.”2) Santa Cruz doesn’t have to worry about his father: The last time he was training to fight Frampton, Santa Cruz’s father, Jose, was battling cancer. But it also affected him in his preparation since Santa Cruz’s camp didn’t come up with a solidified gameplan to fight Frampton. “We had trained one thing with my brother, and then when my dad got there, he wanted us to train a different way,” Santa Cruz said.

Source: Forbes January 28, 2017 13:31 UTC