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

FIGHT WEEK

Josh Taylor and Jack Catterall are scheduled to satisfy 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, Might 25
Time: 2 p.m. ET / 11 a.m. PT (principal 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 retailers)
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 satisfy once more after their controversial bout in February 2022, when Taylor gained a not-so-convincing cut up resolution. Taylor was a sizzling fighter on the time, having outpointed Jose Ramirez to grow to be undisputed 140-pound champion the earlier Might. 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 resolution 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 Might of final yr after which defeated former three-division titleholder Jorge Linares by a one-sided resolution 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)