Former two-time mild welterweight champion Regis Prograis (29-2, 24 KOs) says Jack Catterall (29-1, 13 KOs) has “made a mistake” deciding on him as his opponent for this Saturday, October twenty sixth, for his or her match on the Co-op Dwell Enviornment in Manchester, England.
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Prograis feels that he’s too highly effective, skilled, and hungry for Catterall to beat him on this combat. He needs to make him remorse selecting him for his or her 140-lb conflict stay on DAZN.
“I simply wish to be world champion once more. Three-time world champion sounds so good on my resume. That’ ‘ll be part of my story,” stated Regis Prograid to Matchroom Boxing in regards to the objective that he’s attempting to attain.
“If it was a battle for me to get up and go to the gymnasium on daily basis, ‘Can I nonetheless do it?’ It’s straightforward. I get up on daily basis. I like waking up. They’re positively making an enormous mistake as a result of he might have fought for a world title subsequent. However to combat somebody like me, as harmful as I’m proper now, it’s positively a mistake. Yeah, I misplaced my final combat, however I’m far more hungry to essentially get again to the highest,” stated Prograis.
Regis goes to extend his join price if he’s to win this combat as a result of he solely landed a small variety of punches in his final two contests. Prograis has seemed too gradual and hasn’t attacked his final two opponents the way in which he wanted to attach.
Regis Prograis’ Punches Landed
– Devin Haney: 36
– Danielito Zorrilla: 42
“A win over Regis places me in an ideal place to combat for a world title,” stated Catterall. “Exercise is vital. I’ve had 4 fights in 18 months, and that momentum has helped me within the gymnasium to push and progress to those large fights. Now, I’m combating Regis, a two-time world champion. I don’t suppose it’s going to be lengthy earlier than I get my world title shot.”
Eddie Hearn has already stated that the winner of the Catterall vs. Prograis combat will compete for the IBF title towards the Liam Paro vs. Richardson Hitchins winner of their December seventh combat. Hearn promotes all 4 of these fighters, so the one factor that might cease him from placing the winner of these two fights towards one another is that if the IBF orders a compulsory protection.
“Jack Catterall is on an incredible run. He’s banging on the door for a world title shot, and for Regis Prograis, a former world champion, he should win this combat,” stated Eddie Hearn.
The run that Catterall hasn’t been towards the kind of cutting-edge competitors at 140 would point out that he’s a sure-thing winner on Saturday night time.
Catterall’s Final Six Fights:
Josh Taylor
Jorge Linares
Darragh Foley
Josh Taylor
Abderrazak Houya
Timo Schwarzkopf
