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Frampton accuses Leo Santa Cruz of having sour grapes after loss

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Carl Frampton says Daddy’s Boy Leo Santa Cruz is suffering from a bout of sour grapes. 

‘The Jackal’, who expects an immediate rematch with champion he dethroned on July 30th, hasn’t been overly impressed with the Mexican-American’s reaction to the New York defeat. 

The two-weight World champion admits it’s not strange for a big name undefeated boxer to claim he won after a reverse, but is adamant he won the clash by at least three rounds and laughed off Santa Cruz, and his father’s, claims.   

“We’ve seen what he’s said and Santa Cruz seems to say what his dad [Jose] tells him to do,” the Belfast man told Sky Sports. 

“My dad said ‘I won this fight’, my dad says ‘I will win the next one’, my dad says ‘I will knock him out’ and so on.”

“It was a wee bit of sour grapes but I suppose that happens. He is a big name, he was expected to win and he thought he was going to win but he lost so you have to expect it a wee bit.”

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