By Ronnie Nathanielsz

The owner of Matchroom Sport, Barry Hearn says WBA 'regular' super bantamweight champion Scott Quigg wants to fight IBF champion Carl Frampton, also of Britain, before he faces five division world champion Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire.

 

Top Rank promoter Bob Arum had announced plans for a Donaire-Quigg fight on November 21 in Manchester and Donaire himself said he had told Arum he wasn’t too concerned about the purse “just get me the fight.”

 

But Arum revealed in a conversation with the New Standard/BoxingScene.com that the fight was apparently fallen through. He was trying to get it staged in Dubai in partnership with the giant broadcast network ABS-CBN  and TFC, The Filipino Channel which has a huge following in the Middle East and that he has been in discussions with the network’s consultant for sports, Peter Musgni.

 

Barry Hearn, in an exchange of messages on Twitter told us that the Donaire fight “is out there but Scott (Quigg) really wants to fight (Carl) Frampton” and that a Donaire fight could happen “next year, hopefully” - which was confirmed by Arum.

 

Barry's son, Eddie Hearn, has been trying to make Quigg-Frampton a reality but blames the Frampton side for being arrogant.

Carl Frampton has been blasted as “arrogant” by Scott Quigg’s promoter Eddie Hearn.

“It hasn’t happened because of pure arrogance, really, from their side. After the Kiko Martinez fight in July, I went to Quigg and said, ‘Look, we’ve got to give them a better deal’.  I was hoping they would be sensible enough and I needed them to move just a couple of percent – we are talking £100,000, £150,000 in the big pot of things, and they won’t do it," Eddie told The Mirror.

“They will probably fight Shingo Wake in a mandatory defence which means nothing, and Frampton might lose a bit more value. Timing is so important for a pay-per-view fight. There are only certain windows.  Say if Anthony Joshua fights against Dillian Whyte and it is unbelievable and Joshua gets a world-title eliminator on pay-per-view in March. Then Frampton-Quigg cannot do it — and the only way that fight can happen is on pay-per-view. There’s not enough money in America or outside of pay-per-view.

"If you miss the slot you are talking the end of 2016, and in that time he could have lost and there’s no fight.”