Josh Taylor vs. Jack Catterall, Part 2 will take place on Saturday

FIGHT WEEK

Josh Taylor and Jack Catterall are scheduled to meet again on Saturday night after their controversial fight in February 2022.

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

• Day: Saturday, May 25
• Time: 2 p.m. ET / 11 a.m. PT (main event will be shown later)
• Where: First Direct Arena, Leeds, England
• Television/Streaming: DAZN pay-per-view
• Assignment: Youth welterweight (140 pounds)
• Under threat: No major titles
• Pound-for-pound boxing addict: Do not have
• The odds: Even (average of many stores)
• Meaning (maximum five stars): ****
• Also on the card: Paddy Donovan vs. Lewis Ritson, welterweight; Cheavon Clarke vs. Ellis Zorro, cruiserweight; Gary Cully vs. Francesco Patera, lightweight
• Background: Taylor and Catterall are finally about to meet again after their meeting. controversial match in February 2022, when Taylor won an unconvincing split decision. Taylor was a hot fighter at the time, having bested Jose Ramirez to become the undisputed 140-pound champion the previous May. A controversial win over Catterall followed, after which his championship status was unraveled. The 33-year-old Scot lost 3 of his 4 titles outside the ring and then had the worst night of his career, a wise decision loss to Teofimo Lopez in June last year. He begins the rebuilding process against his opponent on Saturday. Catterall, the 30-year-old Englishman, bounced back from his disappointment against Taylor with two straight wins. He knocked out Darragh Foley twice and easily eliminated him last May and thereafter defeated former three-division champion Jorge Linares by a unilateral decision in October. It was Linares’s fourth straight loss, meaning Catterall’s victory was of limited significance.
• Guess: Taylor UD

ALSO FIGHTING THIS WEEK

WEDNESDAY

• Batyrzhan Jukembayev vs. Ivan Redkach, junior welterweight, Plant City, Florida (ProBox TV)

THURSDAY

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

FRIDAY

• Lukasz Rozanki vs. Lawrence Okolie, welterweight (for Rozanski’s WBC title), Rzeszow, Poland (No TV in the US)

SATURDAY

• Christian Mbilli vs. Mark Heffron, super middleweight competitor, Shawinigan, Canada (ESPN+)

• Dina Thorslund vs. Seren Cetin, bantamweight (for Thorslund’s WBC and WBO titles), Copenhagen, Denmark
  (No TV in the US)

• Bader Al-Dherat vs. Orlando Mosque, lightweight, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (DAZN)