Josh Taylor deserves place in Hall of Fame

Josh Taylor's accomplishment successful becoming undisputed satellite champion should beryllium recognised arsenic "one of the large British sporting feats ever" and the Scot is deserving a spot successful boxing's Hall of Fame, says Carl Frampton.

The 34-year-old is retiring connected aesculapian grounds aft a vocation during which helium won Commonwealth Games metallic and golden medals for Scotland, represented Team GB astatine the London 2012 Olympics and became the archetypal – and truthful acold lone – antheral combatant from the UK to seizure each 4 satellite titles successful a azygous division.

"Josh should beryllium arrogant of everything he's done successful his career, particularly becoming an undisputed champion," erstwhile satellite champion Frampton said.

"We spot however overmuch of a large woody it is that radical marque of the undisputed heavyweight champion erstwhile Oleksander Usyk bushed Daniel Dubois astatine the weekend. Josh Taylor was undisputed successful 18 fights - that's unbelievable. Hard to fathom, really.

"So I deliberation that's what radical should retrieve Josh for. It virtually doesn't hap unless you're idiosyncratic similar a Vasiliy Lomachenko oregon a Usyk oregon idiosyncratic similar that. That's the calibre of combatant that achieves this.

"Josh Taylor becoming undisputed champion successful 18 fights successful a marquee division, not down astatine light-flyweight wherever cipher fights oregon thing similar that, a marquee division, should beryllium recognised arsenic 1 of the large British sporting feats ever.

"Undisputed light-welterweight champion successful 18 fights is Hall of Fame behaviour, I think."

Taylor and Frampton, a erstwhile two-weight satellite champion, trained alongside each different erstwhile some were nether Shane McGuigan's wing, with the Scot making his nonrecreational debut connected a amusement headlined by Frampton successful Texas backmost successful 2015.

"I was determination the full way, beauteous much," Frampton told BBC Scotland.

"Josh is simply a large person of excavation and he's a bully idiosyncratic arsenic well. And helium does a batch of bully things down the scenes, which radical don't see. Josh is conscionable a bully fella.

"I'm very, precise arrogant that I was capable to witnesser immoderate of his greatness up adjacent and personal."