Carl Frampton is encouraging fellow Brentford fans to check themselves for Prostate Cancer as he backs the Men United campaign.

The IBF Super Bantamweight World Champion is a close friend of Brentford winger Stuart Dallas and has followed both Stuart's and The Bees progress over recent times.

Carl, who beat American Chris Avalos to retain the IBF World title belt back in February, said he has been really impressed with the form of both Stuart and Brentford this season.

"Stuart and I known each other for a few years," said Carl.

"He played for a team back home called Crusaders, an Irish League semi-pro team, who just won the league this year for the first time in 18 years.

"He’s been loaned out to a few teams but he’s been playing unbelievably well for Brentford this year so I kept I touch a bit with him.

"I wouldn’t say Crusaders are my team, that’s the team I support, but I have a wee fondness for Brentford as Dallas plays for them."

Carl has been training in London in recent months and admitted it was hard to leave family and friends at home in Belfast to move across the Irish Sea.

The undefeated fighter said it has been good to have a familiar face like Stuart around in London even if he hasn't got the Brentford winger into the Boxing ring yet.

"We’d have said hello and stuff when I was back in Belfast and he was playing for Crusaders," said Carl.

"He’s come down to the gym a couple of times now because he’s living in London.

"He comes down to the gym every now and again and we maybe have a wee bit of lunch, watch a training session.

"Boxing is an individual sport so to start for me, coming over here, I felt out of place in London and I got very lonely.

"I was leaving my family at home all the time which is the hardest part.

"I have a young daughter, a new-born son and have a wife back home.

"It makes it a wee bit easier having good people around you and I’m very fortunate to have a good friendly team round me.

"Stuart's not done any sparring.

"If he fancies it we’ll see.

"You see a lot of these football teams, especially pre-season, doing a bit of boxing and boxercise to try and get fit so you never know."

Carl was speaking to Zoo Magazine as part of his work for Prostate Cancer UK and their Men United campaign.

Prostate Cancer affects one in eight men in the UK and is the most common Cancer in men in the UK.

The Prostate Cancer UK logo has appeared on Football League shirts this season.

Carl believes it is important that the disease gets the attention it merits and that football supporters get themselves checked out.

"I have a Brentford shirt next door and its got your logo on the numbers," said Carl, speaking to Prostate Cancer.

"Of course you want to get it out there as well as you can and what better way than football.

"Its huge, its on TV everywhere, people support it, everyone supports a football team really, so you need to get the message out as much as you can.

"Men tend to ignore anything and don’t want to tell anyone about it.

"Sometimes they will feel like they are a burden and a big Jimmy Ann sometimes.

"Its important to try and get things checked out.

"Men just ignore things.

"So how you are going about things and trying to promote things its great and hopefully you start to see a lot of people getting diagnosed a lot earlier."