Carl Frampton (born 21 February 1987 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is an Irish professional boxer who fights in the super bantamweight division, is managed by Barry McGuigan, and has been continuously linked to a possible domestic clash with unbeaten English rival Scott Quigg.

As an amateur, Frampton fought out of the Midlands Boxing Club in Tigers Bay and won the Irish senior flyweight title in 2005 and added the 2009 Irish featherweight title beating David Oliver Joyce in the final, dropping Joyce in the 2nd and giving him a standing count in the 3rd.

He also claimed a silver medal at the 2007 European Union Amateur Boxing Championships in Dublin losing to France's Khedafi Djelkhir in the final. Carl is one of Ireland's most successful amateur boxers of recent years, winning over 100 hundred of his fights and losing only 8 times.

Frampton turned professional after his victory in the 2009 Irish featherweight finals. He moved to the Holy Family Golden Gloves Gym in North Belfast where he is trained by world renowned and award winning coach Gerry Storey and in June 2009, fought his first professional fight at the Olympia, Liverpool in England and beat Sandor Szinavel with a second round knockout on a card that included Grzegorz Proksa and Ajose Olusegan. In January 2010 he was named Ireland's Prospect of the Year at the Irish National Boxing Awards. In November 2010 he won his first professional title, the Celtic title, with a second round TKO win over Scottish boxer Gavin Reid in the Ulster Hall. He then went on to get a 4th round TKO win over Venezuelan Oscar Chacin, and fought his first defense of his BBBofC Celtic super bantamweight title against Welshman Robbie Turley on June 4 winning by 10 round UD.

Scott Quigg (born 9 October 1988) is an English professional boxer fighting in the super bantamweight division. He is undefeated, fights for Ricky Hatton's Hatton Promotions and has been continuously linked to a possible fight with undefeated Irish Super Bantamweight prospect Carl Frampton.

Quigg's professional debut came on 21 April 2007 with a victory over Gary Shiel at the Jarvis Hotel in Manchester. Throughout the rest of the year he won on four more occasions giving him a record of 5-0 at the end of 2007. Quigg fought six more times in 2008, winning on each occasion, a run that included a victory over Ghana's tough journeyman Sumaila Badu in just the first round of a four round contest. Watching the contest Boxing News reporter Danny Flexen claimed that after watching over 50 live shows he had "never seen a more complete prospect" with less than 10 fights under his belt.

Quigg fought another five times in 2009 again winning each time. In his last fight of the year on 27 November Quigg met and stopped the former Ukrainian national champion and former European title challenger Yuriy Voronin in the sixth round of an 8 round fight at the Robin Park Centre in Wigan.

Steve Bunce (nicknamed Buncey; English pronunciation: /ˈbənts/; born 3 December 1962 in Camden Town, London) is a freelance television and radio sport pundit and newspaper columnist. He has regularly appeared as a pundit on the BBC sports programme Inside Sport and on BBC Radio Five Live's Fighting Talk. Bunce was the face of boxing on Setanta Sports and headlined his own show Steve Bunce's Boxing Hour until June 2009 when the organisation ceased broadcasting in Great Britain. Despite calls for the popular boxing show to reappear it failed to materialise until the introduction of Britains first dedicated boxing channel BoxNation. Once again Bunce became the face of boxing on BoxNation and the long awaited return of Bunce’s Boxing Hour started broadcasting 17 October 2011.

He has a regular column in magazine Boxing Monthly.

In 2010, he published his debut work of fiction The Fixer.

He currently presents the ESPN UK version of the American sports talk show Pardon the Interruption

Steve Bunce appears on BBC radio's Fighting Talk and the Steve Bunce Boxing Show on BBC London 94.9.

Steve Molitor (born April 4, 1980 in Sarnia, Ontario) is a Canadian professional boxer. He is the former International Boxing Federation (IBF) Junior featherweight champion. He has a record of 33–2 (with 12 wins by KO).

Molitor began boxing at the age of nine, following in the footsteps of his brother, former commonwealth champion Jeremy Molitor. He won five national titles at 112 pounds. He participated in the Olympic trials but lost a decision to the late great Mike Messel. His final amateur record was 93 wins and eleven losses.

Molitor became a professional boxer on May 18, 2000, with an eight-round decision over Julio Luna. In 2002 he scored his most notable win to date when he beat former Olympian Scotty Olson for the Canadian super bantamweight title. Later that year he beat Englishman Nicky Booth for the Commonwealth bantamweight championship. On April 21, 2004, Molitor defeated Hugo Dianzo for the vacated NABA North American title, by a unanimous decision.

On November 10, 2006, he knocked out Michael Hunter in the fifth round for the vacant IBF super bantamweight championship title. On July 14, 2007, Molitor dismantled South Africa's Takalani Ndlovu in his first title defense, by scoring a 9th round TKO at Casino Rama in Rama, Ontario. He also defeated Thailand's Fahsan 3K Battery by unanimous decision on October 27 in his second defense, also at Casino Rama. On January 19, 2008 Molitor defended his title against Ricardo Castillo, with a unanimous decision victory.

Leodegario "Leo" Santa Cruz (born August 10, 1988 in Huetamo, Michoacán, Mexico) is an undefeated Mexican professional boxer in the Bantamweight division and is the current WBC Youth World Bantamweight Champion.

Leodegario had an amateur record of 148-7 and at only fifteen years old he won a gold medal at the World Amateur Championships.

On October 21, 2010 Santa Cruz beat the veteran James Owens at the Martin's Valley Mansion in Cockeysville, Maryland.

In March 2011, Leodegario knocked out the veteran Stephane Jamoye to win the vacant WBC Youth World Bantamweight Championship.