Frampton vs Donaire Odds – The SSE Hydro in Belfast hosts favorite son Carl Frampton as he faces veteran top gun Nonito Donaire in a WBO World featherweight title fight.
Frampton is Ireland’s most popular and decorated fighter right now not including Conor McGregor, so right away you can give him the home field advantage. Donaire is a pro who has been everywhere, but there is nothing like fighting in Ireland.
Donaire (38-4) hass been a world champion at three weight classes. A win over Frampton would give him a world title in a fourth weight class. Though he has operated in the shadow of the great Manny Pacquiao, the concensus is that Donaire has been the second best Filipino fighter over the last ten years.
Frampton (24-1) and his team have selected Donaire for this fight for several reasons. As a name, Donaire still has value and a win is a feather in Frampton’s cap. But Donaire at 35 and moving up a weight class is definitely on the downside of his career. He recently lost a world title bid at super bantamweight to Jessie Magdaleno, a younger fighter who was a step ahead of Donaire the entire fight. Now he is up a weight class from that.
Frampton is still trying to navigate the waters after his loss to Leo Santa Cruz. A lucrative trilogy closer with Santa Cruz is on the horizon and a loss would put that in jeopardy. After fighting Santa Cruz twice in the United States, Frampton returned to Ireland this past November,when he won a UD over veteran Horatio Garcia. In that fight Frampton didn’t look scintillating. Frampton will be trying to lure Santa Cruz to Ireland for their third fight and his chances would be buoyed if he can stop Donaire in grand fashion.
Some think Frampton may be slipping a little and if that is the case, more reason to get to the Santa Cruz fight by the end of the year. Donaire is a game underdog, but at the end of the day Frampton’s handlers and the matchmaker found Donaire, a fighter who has been eroded by age and hard fights further than Frampton has.
The Frampton vs Donaire fight is the main event of a big thirteen fight boxing card promoted by Frank Warren and his Queensberry Promotions. A second world title fight is on the bill as WBO bantamweight champion Zolani Tete (26-3) makes a title defense against Argentina’s decorated Omar Narvaez (48-2-2).
Narvaez has two career losses, to Nonito Donaire and to Japan’s sensational Naoya Inoue. Narvaez held world titles at Flyweight and Super Flyweight for nearly 10 years before moving up in weight to challenge Donaire for a bantamweight world title back in 2011.All in all, Narvaez held world titles for more than a dozen years, but at he enters the fight Saturday at 42 years old. His most recent loss saw him knocked out by Inoue, who is nicknamed “The Monster.” Though Tete is no Inoue, he will be coming to take Narvaez’ head off.
Below are the current odds. Check your local listings for start times in the U.K. where the main events are airing on BT Sport.
Sat 4/21 – Frampton vs Donaire Odds – The SSE Arena – Belfast, Northern Ireland
Featherweight 12 rounds –
Nonito Donaire +475 o9½ -350
Carl Frampton -650 u9½ +290
Super Featherweight 12 rounds –
Jono Carroll -420
Marco McCullough +335
Middleweight 10 rounds –
Luke Keeler +195
Conrad Cummings -235
Bantamweight 12 rounds –
Omar Andres Narvaez +1950
Zolani Tete -3900
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