Jackal wounded but Carl Frampton has plenty fight left

It ended with Carl Frampton enjoying that most familiar vantage point, the elevated view of his surroundings as trainer Shane McGuigan raised him aloft in victory.

But there was a different look on the Jackal’s face on Saturday in El Paso, the wild jubilation of previous lifts was absent. He seemed to be getting little or no satisfaction from the celebrations.

That was primarily because a half-hour earlier at the Don Haskins Centre, in his first round on US soil, Frampton was forced to take in a very different view, the most unfamiliar one of his career.