Watch Tommy Fury’s awkward exchange with Carl Frampton after retired boxing champ picked Jake Paul to beat Love Islander
TOMMY FURY awkwardly boasted of leaving egg on Carl Frampton’s face after beating Jake Paul.
Frampton was one of many ex-world champions who predicted Paul would win the celebrity grudge match in Saudi Arabia.
But Fury returned home with his unbeaten record and a chip on his shoulder after edging out a split-decision win.
Frampton was left to face the music as he interviewed Fury for BT Sport’s latest episode of Chatterbox.
He said: “Yeah, what can I say? Tommy proved me and a lot of other people wrong.
“I thought he looked good in the fight, he won it comfortably. Yeah, it was a good performance.”
Fury’s dad John famously confronted Frampton over his controversial prediction and was left fuming.
The Northern Irishman joked he later edged towards Fury but did not publicly change his mind in fear of looking scared of John.
He said: “As the fight got closer, I actually started to change my mind a bit and a lot of it was down to the confidence of Tommy and it seemed a lack of it from Jake Paul.
“But I didn’t want to openly say, ‘Actually, I might be changing my mind here towards Tommy’ because then everyone goes, ‘Oh, you’re just afraid of John Fury.’ Which I am, by the way!
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“But I thought it was a great performance, well done mate.”
Tommy replied: “I appreciate it. But I tell you what’s funny, it’s like all these former world champions they clearly don’t know f*** all about boxing because they can’t even call it between two novices.
“They can’t even pick between two novices. I told everybody, you know Tony Bellews as well, all the people that told me I couldn’t beat this man, well they’ve just got egg all over their faces.
“Because at the end of the day, me and my dad said it throughout all the build up and it was.
“It was an easy fight, I clearly out-won him, it shouldn’t have been a split-decision, it should have been unanimous.
“But like I said listen, egg on everybody’s faces that said I couldn’t do it. So yeah, it feels very, very nice to sit here and prove everybody wrong.
“Because I was the guy who was going to crack under pressure, I was the guy who had never been in a main-event before, I was the guy that was going to get knocked out off a YouTuber
“But no, they’ve all got egg on their faces, so I can say that confidently.”
Fury, 23, was twice forced to pull out of the fight before, amid injury and US visa issues.
But he made up for lost time in the Middle East by handing Paul, 26, the first defeat of his seven-bout professional career.
The pair are now eyeing a rematch in the summer and Fury vowed to leave it out of the judges’ hands.
He said: “Honestly, in the build up to this it was funny because me and my dad and my whole team were sat there laughing thinking, ‘What are these guys seeing that we ain’t seeing?’
“And I went in there and it was a complete shutout. Jake couldn’t even deal with a jab, let it be what it was.
“That there was more high-profile than any world title fight. So it just showed at 23 years old, I’ve gone in there and I can handle the pressure, don’t crack under pressure and in the rematch he’ll be getting done, knocked out.”