Carl Frampton got back to winning ways at Belfast’s SSE Arena on Saturday night, the former unified world champion racking up a hard-fought victory over Horacio Garcia.

Carl Frampton made a winning return to the ring with a far from convincing non-title fight victory over Mexican Horacio Garcia at the SSE Arena in Belfast.

Rare enough are athletes for whom defeat can be dismissed as an occasional evil; rarer still those who manage to evade it entirely.