When Saturday comes, Carl Frampton, the precise, pugnacious fighter from Northern Ireland, aims to add his name to that list of revered prizefighters.

The unbeaten 28-year-old challenges for the International Boxing Federation super-bantamweight world crown against Kiko Martinez in the Titanic Dockyards, in Belfast, less than a mile from where he grew up, in front of a sell-out 16,000 audience. There could be no greater setting for his coronation, and he can ill afford to be sunk by the Spaniard.

The wall is a centrepiece of the gym, in an old loading bay in swanky Battersea, a long way from home. “It’s a small gym, so you can pretty much see it from everywhere. I intend to be the next one on it. It’ll make me realise that I’m a world champion every time I see my name up there. I’m sharing a piece of the wall with some great fighters.”

It is an intriguing location, a stone’s throw from The Royal College of Art: not exactly the spit and sawdust gyms of boxing folklore. “We’ve got Vivienne Westwood’s studio directly opposite, and we share a complex with Sam De Fleur and Victoria Beckham and stuff,” explained Frampton, who is more about hit than hip.

He has already been crowned British, Commonwealth and European super-bantamweight champion after 18 contests, and, peculiarly, has already beaten Martinez, in a scintillating display in Feb 2013. He stopped the Spaniard by crunching ninth round TKO defeat, the only stoppage in his 35-fight career. Now they meet again, with Martinez having claimed a world crown in between times.

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