Frampton: Santa Cruz is overlooking me

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Carl Frampton believes his next opponent Leo Santa Cruz is overlooking him ahead of their fight on July 30.

Frampton (22-0, 14 KOs) believes Santa Cruz (32-0-1, 18 KOs) got a false impression of him when he witnessed from ringside the Northern Irishman being dropped twice by little-known Alejandro Gonzalez Jr. in the opening round in Texas last year.

But Frampton, 29, recovered to win a unanimous points decision and is back in America to challenge WBA world featherweight champion Santa Cruz at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

Belfast’s former WBA-IBF world super-bantamweight champion is taking encouragement from his belief that Mexican Santa Cruz, 27, is underestimating him.

“I think he’s overlooking me,” Frampton told ESPN. “The only time he’s seen me in the flesh was when I had my worst performance against Alejandro Gonzalez Jr. in Texas a year ago, and he thinks I’m chinny. I …

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