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The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxCarl Frampton will get the homecoming he deserves if he beats Jamel Herring.The Belfast fighter will bid to become just the fourth UK fighter to win world titles in three weight divisions this weekend.Only Bob Fitzsimmons, Duke McKenzie and Ricky Burns have done it before from these shores.And he can be the first boxer from the island of Ireland to achieve the feat should he claim the WBO super-featherweight title.It is a night for history but I don't think it will be Frampton's final fight.This is no easy fight against a proper world champion who will have a huge height and reach advantage over him.But I believe Frampton can create

The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxWhen Carl Frampton teamed up with Queensberry Promotions, I knew we could create history.Now on February 27 he gets the chance to do just that when he takes on WBO super-featherweight champion Jamel Herring.Frampton will bid to become the first boxer from the island of Ireland to win world titles in three weight divisions.Not many even from Britain can say they've done that, also.Bob Fitzsimmons, Duke McKenzie and Ricky Burns are the only others to manage the feat.Belfast-born Frampton will go down in history if he pulls off a win against Herring next month.It has been a fight in the works for some time now but due to the Covid-19