Promoter Eddie Hearn was happy with Jack Catterall’s 12-round unanimous victory over Regis Prograis on Saturday night time, and he’s now able to put Catterall in a title combat towards the winner of the Liam Paro vs. Richardson Hitchins conflict for the IBF gentle welterweight belt.
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Catterall (30-1, 13 KOs) took care of an excellent fighter in former WBA and WBC gentle welterweight champion Prograis (29-3, 24 KO) tonight, beating him in a two-knockdown efficiency on the Co-op Stay Area in Manchester, England.
Prograis, 35, appeared like he mentally give up after struggling two knockdowns in spherical 9, courtesy of the southpaw Catterall’s left fingers.
Earlier within the contest, Prograis had dropped Catterall in spherical 5 and had gotten the higher of him in rounds within the first 4 rounds.
Going into spherical 9, it appeared like Prograis was on his solution to successful the combat, however it fell aside after he suffered the 2 knockdowns. Prograis didn’t comply with his nook’s directions after the ninth spherical. They needed him to go on the assault to ‘get again’ what he had misplaced in that spherical, however he didn’t do what they advised him to. He simply appeared afraid of being knocked down once more.
The judges scored the combat 117-108, 116-109 and 116-109.
The Two Knockdowns Made the Distinction
If any of these three have been all for preventing Catterall, Hearn would clearly conform to match him towards Ryan Garcia, Devin Haney, or Teofimo Lopez. Given Catterall’s lack of recognition within the U.S., they wouldn’t trouble preventing him, particularly after the way in which he fought tonight with the motion he used.
Catterall should change his preventing fashion for him to get the big-money fights towards the extra standard fighters at 140.
“The 2 knockdowns have been massive for Jack for the final momentum of making an attempt to get that Hearn Needs Catterall To Face Paro-Hitchins Winner Subsequent shot,” stated Eddie Hearn to the media on the post-fight press convention, speaking about his fighter Jack Catterall’s victory over Regis Prograis on Saturday night time in Manchester.
“Jack punches so much more durable than folks give him credit score for. When folks like Regis Prograis say, ‘He’s the very best fighter I’ve been in with. If I put him in with Teofimo Lopez, Devin Haney, and Ryan Garcia, I imagine he’s in 50-50 fights,” Hearn continued.
Ryan Garcia has an excessive amount of energy for Catterall, and he’ll catch him with considered one of his left hooks in the end. Teofimo Lopez has an excessive amount of energy for Catterall, as effectively. Hearn must supply Teo, Ryan, and Haney some huge cash to combat a man with a defensive fashion like Catterall as a result of he’s not standard and won’t be until he turns into extra of a stationary fighter.
It’s unlikely that Hearn would wish to pay huge quantities of cash to these fighters simply to assist Catterall’s profession. It might require His Excellency Turki Alalsikh to finance a combat involving a type of guys towards Catterall, however it’s uncertain that he would. Turki has extra thrilling fights to placed on his Riyadh Season playing cards.
Catterall’s preventing fashion is simply too much like Shakur Stevenson’s, and American followers will not be all for watching that form of fighter. Shakur has a following as a result of he tweets so much, and he was seen so much on ESPN when he was with Prime Rank. Catterall doesn’t have any of that going for him. He’s with Hearn, however he can’t persuade U.S. followers to wish to watch him combat light fighters or ones they’re not accustomed to.
“Paro towards Catterall is an excellent combat. I believe it will be unwise to rule him in any combat towards any 140-pounder. If he does combat Liam Paro, he’s had 12 rounds towards a top-five southpaw [Prograis] tonight,” stated Hearn.
