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Carl Frampton is being lined up to return to the ring in August in the United States.<\/p>\nCarl Frampton is being lined up to return to the ring in August in the United States.<\/p>\n
After considering retirement following December\u2019s shock defeat by Josh Warrington, the Northern Irishman was preparing to fight earlier this summer but the adjournment of his court case with former manager Barry McGuigan means that date will be delayed.<\/p>\n
The 32-year-old signed with influential US promoters Top Rank in March and was set to be rewarded by challenging Oscar Valdez. The WBO featherweight champion is instead fighting on June 8, but Frampton\u2019s legal matters mean that he cannot be ready.<\/p>\n
He will therefore not fight for a world title until the winter, by which time one compatriot in Ryan Burnett is expected to have fought dangerous WBO champion Zolani Tete, and another in Michael Conlan will hope to have avenged his controversial defeat by Vladimir Nikitin at Rio 2016.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrampton is fighting in August in the US, and then he\u2019ll fight for a championship in probably November, December,\u201d revealed Top Rank promoter Bob Arum.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was going to fight on August 3 but then that date went to Michael Conlan. I\u2019m going to Belfast, where Conlan will fight. Later on in August, maybe the 10th or the 23rd, he\u2019ll be fighting. He\u2019ll be top of the bill.<\/p>\n
\u201cRyan Burnett, Frank (Warren, Tete\u2019s promoter) mentioned, we were going to put him on in Belfast but now it\u2019s going to be in the United States.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has Tete he\u2019d like to put Burnett in with. I\u2019d love to do that fight.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have absolutely no compunction to show fights in the afternoon in the United States, so that they can be in the evening in the UK.\u201d<\/p>\n
Warren, who has developed a close relationship with Arum through their co-promotional agreements with Tyson Fury and Frampton, added: \u201cI\u2019d love to do that fight. Zolani would love to do that fight.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s why he went into that tournament (the WBSS, which Burnett withdrew from through injury). That\u2019s a great fight for Tete; I fancy my man.\u201d<\/p>\n
Frampton is suing McGuigan, his wife Sandra McGuigan and Cyclone Promotions (UK) Ltd, claiming purse money and other earnings due to him were withheld.<\/p>\n
He is also facing an action from his former promoters, who he split with in 2017, for alleged breach of contract.<\/p>\n
Lawyers representing the McGuigans have insisted that all of the allegations are categorically denied.<\/p>\n