Jack Catterall (29-1, 13 KOs) and Regis Prograis (29-2, 24 KOs) each weighed in efficiently at Friday’s weigh-in and are set to fulfill for his or her 12-round headliner this Saturday, October twenty sixth. The 2 Matchroom Boxing-promoted mild welterweights can be competing with the winner to problem for the IBF 140-lb title in 2025. Saturday’s occasion can be proven reside on DAZN from the Co-op Stay in Manchester.
Weights:
– Jack Catterall – 140lbs
– Regis Prograis – 139.7lbs
Catterall has the house nation benefit on this struggle, however that won’t assist him as a result of the previous WBA and WBC mild welterweight champion Prograis is amped up about preventing on the highway. He likes this so much higher than competing in his dwelling nation, the U.S., which isn’t stunning as a result of he’s not carried out effectively these days there.
Prograis misplaced to Devin Haney on December ninth final yr, and earlier than that, he edged Danielito Zorrilla by a 12-round break up choice on June seventeenth, 2023, in New Orleans. Many boxing followers now consider that Prograis is over the hill at 35 and never the fighter he was throughout his greatest years.
Prograis could not have to be at his greatest to defeat Catterall as a result of this man isn’t thought of an elite-level fighter. Certainly, he could also be extra domestic-level than true world-class. We all know that Catterall has been toiling away for 12 years as an expert, and his solely win over a top-tier fighter was Josh Taylor.
“Sure, I do agree with it. I simply don’t assume he’s on my degree. He fought Josh Taylor twice. I solely fought him as soon as. There’s nothing on his resume. In case you take a look at his and take a look at mine, it’s nothing,” mentioned Regis Prograis to Ariel Helwani’s channel about Jack Catterall not being a world-class fighter.
The one names on Catterall’s resume that stand out are Josh Taylor and Jorge Linares. Each fighters had a variety of ring put on by the point Catterall fought them and had been nowhere close to their high kind. Catterall can be flying blind on this struggle towards Prograis, hoping that he can keep away from getting clipped by considered one of his greatest photographs.
In Catterall’s current win over Taylor, he struggled with the strain and the heavy photographs he was getting hit with, and received a questionable 12-round unanimous choice earlier this yr on Could twenty fifth.
“I don’t really feel he’s a world-class fighter, and he’s not on my degree. That’s what I’m going to go on the market and show. I took it instantly as a result of Jack is extremely rated,” mentioned Prograis, agreeing instantly when the struggle towards Prograis was provided to him.
It’s going to be fascinating to see how effectively Catterall does towards Prograis as a result of he’s not thought of to be on the extent of Devin Haney, who beat Regis by a large choice. Haney is clearly not an awesome fighter, as we found in his struggle towards Ryan Garcia final April.
“He didn’t wish to struggle me. He needed to struggle Teofimo Lopez over me. An excessive amount of hazard,” mentioned Prograis, explaining why Catterall didn’t wish to struggle him. “I’m nonetheless a two-time world champion. In case you take Josh Taylor off his resume, it’s nothing.
“No, I didn’t assume he was damage. He didn’t wish to struggle, and he didn’t wish to struggle from the start. Matchroom pressured his hand. They made him take the struggle. They didn’t make me take the struggle. I mentioned, ‘Sure’ twice already. After the Josh Taylor struggle, he needed to go straight right into a world title struggle, however they made him struggle me.
“At first, I believed, ‘Man, they’re making an attempt to mess over me, making an attempt to make me go to Manchester. They’re making an attempt to make me struggle him in his hometown,’ however I truly like this higher,” mentioned Prograis.
