Redis Prograis suffered a dislocated ankle when he slipped on the canvas within the eleventh spherical of his loss to Jack Catterall on Saturday night time on the Co-op Stay Enviornment in Manchester, England.
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Promoter Eddie Hearn revealed the harm, and Prograis (29-3, 24 KOs) confirmed that he was injured when he fell within the eleventh spherical after throwing and lacking a wild proper hand that was meant to be a Hail Mary fight-saving Punch.
What Stored Prograis From Profitable
– No means to stress
– Mixture punching
– Physique assault
– Not geared up to chop off the ring
– Sturdy chin
Contemplating that Prograis was preventing with just one leg from the eleventh spherical, he did an admirable job in a 12-round unanimous resolution loss to Catterall, 31, in his house nation. The judges scored 117-108, 116-109 and 116-109.
Prograis was down twice in spherical 9 after getting clipped with left fingers. Catterall was on the canvas in spherical 5 from a jab that brought about him to journey.
Prograis would have received the battle if he had the correct instruments however lacked the technical expertise. It was a match that he ought to have been in a position to win.
For a fighter who has been within the recreation for 12 years and received two world titles, it’s stunning that Prograis by no means discovered to use stress, assault the physique, or minimize off the ring.
A fighter like William Zepeda from the light-weight division would have been a nightmare for Catterall tonight due to all of the above areas that Prograis lacked in his recreation, which he’s sturdy at.
Catterall would have been compelled to battle, would have been pressured nonstop, and attacked to the physique. If you happen to had been to design a fighter in a laboratory to defeat Catterall, Zepeda could be the creation and promoter Eddie Hearn could be depressing afterward.
“Perhaps 12 rounds is an excessive amount of for me now,” mentioned Regus Prograis to DAZN Boxing when interviewed after his loss to Catterall on Saturday night time. “I began fading within the later rounds. I harm my knee. I harm my ankle. It’s as a result of it will get too lengthy, I believe. For now, I’m going to do one thing else and let the younger guys take over.”
“The primary three rounds or 4 rounds,” mentioned Eddie Hearn to the Stomping Grounds about how Catterall began gradual. “You’re not making two southpaws in opposition to one another. You’re making two top-five fighters in opposition to one another, and typically, when there’s a lot on the road, the primary three rounds are going to be a bit cagey.
“It was the fifth spherical was the knockdown and it modified the battle. Abruptly, I believed Jack was most likely behind after the fifth or sixth spherical. So, I needed to go from there and be extra aggressive. When he was extra aggressive, he harm Regis,” mentioned Hearn.
The punch that originally harm Prograis in spherical 9 got here when he was being attacked, and he landed it out of self-defense. It wasn’t a case of Catterall being aggressive. He was by no means aggressive within the battle within the conventional sense. Even after Catterall dropped Prograis twice in spherical 9, he threw virtually no punches in rounds 10, 11, and 12. Catterall was enjoying it protected, afraid to let his fingers go for concern of being clipped.
“By the best way, Regis Prograis is a correct fighter. It was an incredible speech. He turned his ankle over fully within the eleventh spherical. He went via the twelfth spherical. Yeah, as a result of he dislocated his ankle. It was hanging off. He couldn’t even rise up on it, however he by no means stopped attempting to win the battle. Large respect to him,” mentioned Hearn.
Let’s get this straight: The injured ankle wasn’t the rationale Prograis misplaced tonight to Catterall. He misplaced as a result of he didn’t know learn how to stress, minimize off the ring, throw physique punches, or deal with the only potshots Catterall was hitting him with. Prograis was doomed to lose and not using a good chin as a result of he couldn’t have received along with his poor punch resistance.
