Josh Taylor deserves place in Hall of Fame – Carl Frampton

“We see how much of a big deal it is that people make of the undisputed heavyweight champion when Oleksander Usyk beat Daniel Dubois at the weekend. Josh Taylor was undisputed in 18 fights – that’s unbelievable. Hard to fathom, really.

“So I think that’s what people should remember Josh for. It literally doesn’t happen unless you’re someone like a Vasiliy Lomachenko or a Usyk or someone like that. That’s the calibre of fighter that achieves this.

“Josh Taylor becoming undisputed champion in 18 fights in a marquee division, not down at light-flyweight where nobody fights or anything like that, a marquee division, should be recognised as one of the great British sporting feats ever.

“Undisputed light-welterweight champion in 18 fights is Hall of Fame behaviour, I think.”

Taylor and Frampton, a former two-weight world champion, trained alongside each other when both were under Shane McGuigan’s wing, with the Scot making his professional debut on a show headlined by Frampton in Texas back in 2015.

“I was there the whole way, pretty much,” Frampton told BBC Scotland.

“Josh is a great friend of mine and he’s a good person as well. And he does a lot of good things behind the scenes, which people don’t see. Josh is just a good fella.

“I’m very, very proud that I was able to witness some of his greatness up close and personal.”