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Carl Frampton fractured both hands in fight with Tyler McCreary

Carl Frampton revealed on his Twitter that he had suffered fractures in both of his hands during his fight against Tyler McCreary.

It turns out there was a good reason Carl Frampton decided to go almost exclusively to the body in his fight against Tyler McCreary this past Saturday in Las Vegas: He had suffered fractures in both hands during the fight.

The junior lightweight from Northern Ireland revealed the news on his Twitter account.

Frampton has had hand issues in the past, most recently in August, when a freak accident scuttled his fight with Emmanuel Dominguez in Philadelphia days before the event. Frampton was sitting in a hotel lobby when a concrete pillar fell over and landed on his left hand, breaking the fifth metacarpal bone. That’s the same bone he broke in the fight.

Frampton also said immediately after the fight that he had suffered two fractures in his hands – including that same bone – during training camp before the McCreary fight.

“I refractured it twice in the camp but I knew a lot of people were coming here to support me,” he said in the ring. “There was absolutely no way I wasn’t fighting. I did 26 or 28 rounds of sparring because of the hand but I had to fight.”

Frampton is expected to face 130-pound titleholder Jamel Herring, who is coming off a recent points win over Lamont Roach. Herring entered the ring after Frampton’s win over McCreary, as both fighters expressed their interest in facing one another. The fight is expected to land on St. Patrick’s Day, either in Belfast or in New York City.

“I’d love for it to be in Belfast, but would also be game to fight him in New York if I have to,” Frampton said afterward.