Josh Taylor vs. Jack Catterall, Part 2 set for Saturday

FIGHT WEEK

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

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

Date: Saturday, Could 25
Time: 2 p.m. ET / 11 a.m. PT (essential occasion later in present)
The place: First Direct Area, 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 scorching fighter on the time, having outpointed Jose Ramirez to grow 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 evening of his profession, a transparent choice loss in opposition to Teofimo Lopez in June of final 12 months. 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 12 months after which defeated former three-division titleholder Jorge Linares by a one-sided choice in October. That was Linares’ fourth consecutive loss, which 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)