Jack Catterall (30-1, 13 KOs) beat Regis Prograis (29-3, 24 KOs) by a 12-round unanimous choice in a combat that was largely a tactical contest on Saturday night time on the Co-op Stay Area in Manchester, England.
(Credit score: Matthew Pover/Matchroom Boxing)
Within the ninth, Catterall scored a pair of knockdowns from left palms to the top of the 35-year-old Prograis. That was by far probably the most attention-grabbing spherical of the combat, as there have been subsequent to no punches landed within the different rounds. Prograis scored a flash knockdown from a jab in spherical 5.
The scores
– 117-108
– 116-109
– 116-109
Prograis appeared gunshy after the ninth and didn’t comply with his coach’s directions to go on the assault within the remaining three rounds. He seemed like he was afraid of getting dropped once more by Catterall.
It’s not that Catterall was throwing with a whole lot of energy or something, however Prograis lacked the chin to assault him in the way in which he wanted to win. Catterall was retreated throughout the ring when pressured by Prograis, making it troublesome to get to him with out truly chasing him.
“I knew I needed to up my recreation. Regis come tonight and provides me a hell of a combat,” stated Catterall to Matchroom Boxing after the win.
The 28-year-old Catterall has a Shakur-esque retreating model, and Prograis didn’t appear to be he’d ready for that sort of motion. Catterall’s motion made the combat extremely boring to observe.
To defeat that model, Prograis would have needed to run after him, and take the pothots that Catterall would land. He wasn’t outfitted to deal with both of these duties. Therefore, Prograis misplaced a reasonably broad choice.
It was good matchmaking on Catterall’s behalf as a result of there are contenders within the 140-lb division that will have given him a whole lot of issues tonight, however not Progras. This was his second straight loss for Regis, and he’s going to wish to think about retirement as a result of he seemed gunshy, like a fighter who can not pull the set off.
Catterall will now combat the winner of the December seventh conflict between IBF gentle welterweight champion Liam Paro and Richardson Hitchins. The unbeaten Hitchins has a really related model to Catterall with the retreating technique he makes use of.
