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JAMEL HERRING has been watching Carl Frampton. The WBO super-featherweight champion expects to meet the Northern Irishman in November, if Herring gets through Saturday’s (September 5) defence against Jonathan Oquendo. It made him an interested observer of Frampton’s latest bout, against short-notice sub Darren Traynor.

“I love how Carl is honest. He doesn’t make any excuses. He knows it and we all know - it wasn’t the best Carl Frampton that we have seen. He looked a little bit sluggish going into the fifth, just a little bit winded. It could be he wasn’t that motivated for this fight, especially when you’ve got to deal with not knowing if you’re going to fight because his original opponent got pulled,” Herring told Boxing News. “He looked a little bit slower, that could have been the extra weight as well because it was contested at lightweight.”

“[It] wasn’t the same Frampton we saw three or four years ago,” he continued. “He had a rough start in that [Josh Warrington] fight but he actually got good as the fight went on. But now that there’s a potential megafight between him and I maybe he can find that extra motivation to bring out the

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