Retiring Taylor deserves place in Hall of Fame – Frampton

Carl Frampton believes Josh Taylor deserves to be inducted into boxing’s Hall of Fame because of his undisputed world record-winning performance.

After a career that included winning Commonwealth Games silver and gold medals for Scotland, representing Team GB at the 2012 Olympics, and becoming the first – and the only – male fighter from the UK to win all four world titles in a single division, the 34-year-old is retiring on medical grounds.

When Oleksander Usyk defeated Daniel Dubois over the weekend, “we see how much of a big deal” people make of the undisputed heavyweight champion. That is unbelievable considering Josh Taylor won every fight he entered. Really difficult to comprehend.

So I believe people should remember Josh for doing that. Without being someone like a Vasiliy Lomachenko, Usyk, or someone else like that, it literally doesn’t happen. That fighter’s skill sets the stage for this.

One of the greatest British sporting accomplishments ever should be Josh Taylor’s becoming undisputed champion in 18 fights in a marquee division, not down at light-flyweight where no one fights or anything like that.

Undisputed light-welterweight champion in 18 fights is, in my opinion, Hall of Fame behavior.

Former two-weight world champions Taylor and Frampton trained alongside one another when both were under Shane McGuigan’s wing, with the Scot making his professional debut on a Texas show with Frampton in 2015 .

I was present the entire time, essentially, as Foxborough told BBC Scotland.

Josh is both a good person and a great friend of mine. And he performs many admirable things in secret that no one notices. Josh is a genuine good guy.