Josh Taylor backed for boxing Hall of Fame as Carl Frampton demands more recognition for 'unbelievable' era

Frampton ranks Taylor alongside Oleksandr Usyk and Vasily Lomachenko after the Tartan Tornado announced his retirement

Carl Frampton insists Josh Taylor deserves to be inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame for his "unbelievable" run as undisputed world champion.

The Tartan Tornado announced his retirement from boxing this week on medical grounds following a persistent eye injury.

Taylor won silver and gold medals for Scotland at the Commonwealth Games before going on to become the first and only British male fighter to win all four titles in the same weight division.

Now former Cyclone stablemate Frampton - himself a two-weight world champ - has called for Taylor to receive more recognition for what he achieved in the ring, ranking him alongside current undisputed world heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk and and former three-weight world champ and fellow Ukrainian Vasily Lomachenko.

"Josh should be proud of everything he's done in his career, especially becoming an undisputed champion," said The Jackal.

"We see how much of a big deal it is that people make of the undisputed heavyweight champion when Oleksandr 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

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"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."

Frampton says he still gets on well with Taylor, despite going their separate ways when Framptin left Cyclone amid a bitter legal battle with promoter and manager Barry McGuigan.

"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."