FIGHT WEEK

Josh Taylor and Jack Catterall are scheduled to fulfill once more on Saturday night time following their controversial battle in February 2022.

JOSH TAYLOR (19-1, 13 KOs)
VS. JACK CATTERALL (28-1, 13 KOs)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFnGXQdtnS4

  • Date: Saturday, Could 25
  • Time: 2 p.m. ET / 11 a.m. PT (foremost occasion later in present)
  • The place: First Direct Enviornment, Leeds, England
  • TV/Stream: DAZN Pay-Per-View
  • Division: Junior welterweight (140 kilos)
  • At stake: No main titles
  • Boxing Junkie Pound-for-pound: None
  • Odds: Even (common of a number of shops)
  • Significance (as much as 5 stars): ****
  • Additionally on the cardboard: Paddy Donovan vs. Lewis Ritson, welterweights; Cheavon Clarke vs. Ellis Zorro, cruiserweights; Gary Cully vs. Francesco Patera, lightweights
  • Background: Taylor and Catterall are lastly set to fulfill once more after their controversial bout in February 2022, when Taylor gained a not-so-convincing break up choice. Taylor was a sizzling fighter on the time, having outpointed Jose Ramirez to turn out to be undisputed 140-pound champion the earlier Could. Then got here the disputed victory over Catterall, after which his championship run unraveled. The 33-year-old Scotsman misplaced three of his 4 titles outdoors the ring after which had the worst night time of his profession, a transparent choice loss in opposition to Teofimo Lopez in June of final yr. He begins the rebuilding course of in opposition to his rival on Saturday. Catterall, a 30-year-old Englishman, bounced again from the frustration in opposition to Taylor with two consecutive victories. He put Darragh Foley down twice and simply outpointed him in Could of final yr after which defeated former three-division titleholder Jorge Linares by a one-sided choice in October. That was Linares’ fourth consecutive loss, that means Catterall’s victory has restricted significance.
  • Prediction: Taylor UD

 

ALSO FIGHTING THIS WEEK

WEDNESDAY

  • Batyrzhan Jukembayev vs. Ivan Redkach, junior welterweights, Plant Metropolis, Florida (ProBox TV)

THURSDAY

  • Jermaine Franklin vs. Devin Vargas, heavyweights, Detroit (DAZN)

FRIDAY

  • Lukasz Rozanki vs. Lawrence Okolie, bridgerweights (for Rozanski’s WBC title), Rzeszow, Poland (No TV in U.S.)

SATURDAY

  • Christian Mbilli vs. Mark Heffron, tremendous middleweights, Shawinigan, Canada (ESPN+)
  • Dina Thorslund vs. Seren Cetin, bantamweights (for Thorslund’s WBC and WBO titles), Copenhagen, Denmark
    (No TV in U.S.)
  • Bader Al-Dherat vs. Orlando Mosquera, lightweights, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (DAZN)