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Josh Taylor ready to knock out 'spoiled child' Jack Catterall
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Josh Taylor is ready to ‘punish’ Jack Catterall, who he believes is acting like a ‘spoiled child.’
Taylor defended his status as the super lightweight undisputed champion earlier in the year, in a fight that many believed the 29-year-old English mandatory challenger had done enough to win.
However the 31-year-old Scot was confident that he was the winner, and in the aftermath of his controversial victory he intimated that after struggling to make weight for the fight, he would move up to 147lbs in pursuit of bigger fights.
While the bad blood had continued between the pair, and perhaps with Terence Crawford and Errol Spence Jr. occupied with one another at welterweight, Taylor has instead remained at 140lbs.
He has also given up the WBA and WBC belts and recently has made it clear he wants to fight Catterall again and put any dispute over his superiority to bed.
"I'm motivated for Jack and that's all I am thinking about," Taylor told the Edinburgh Evening News. "The only reason I am staying at 140lbs is so I can face him again. I'm pretty sure this will be the last fight at the weight and then I'll move up, unless there is a really, really big fight that can tempt me to stay.
"Jack knows this is the right fight. I don't think he would beat any other of the top lads in the division. He had a good fight against me on a very bad night. Remember I don't have to give him this chance - I didn't even have to give him the first fight but I shook his hand and said if I come through against Ramirez I'll fight you next so I kept to my word. I made the man a promise and I stuck to it.
"And now more than a year after agreeing to the fight just before I beat Ramirez, I'm throwing him a bone again. I don't have to do it but I want to. I've done everything within my power to make it happen so it's over to him now. But if he can't work out things from his side, then I'm not going to wait around forever.
"So, sort your stuff out Jack and let's get it on. He's been crying for almost five months now like a little spoiled child. And I think that is now beginning to turn folk against him with the way he's going on. He sounds like a broken record. It's just tiring now.
"Many people felt that Jack won the fight and that's fine. If it had gone his way by a point or two, then I wouldn't have complained. But there have been far worse decisions in boxing. Take John Ryder v Danny Jacobs, that was a bad decision, or when Miguel Vazquez came over and absolutely battered Lewis Ritson but didn't get the win. Nothing gets said about those results, just mine.
"I'll sit tight on it just now and hopefully my team can agree a deal with his. I'll give him three or four weeks tops, but if I don't hear anything then I'll be moving on.
"I'm going to punish him this time. I'm going to knock him out and put him flat on his back. I'm going in there to outbox him, beat him up 100 per cent and knock him out."
