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Sergio Mora: Nature of Jack Catterall’s loss to Josh Taylor was ‘shameful’
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Sergio Mora believes that Jack Catterall was on the end of a ‘shameful’ decision when he lost on a split scorecard against Josh Taylor.
The undisputed super lightweight was dropped by his opponent and landed vastly fewer punches than the Englishman, and many believed the decision to award him victory was extremely generous.
Speaking on JABS as part of the DAZN Boxing Show, the former world champion was baffled.
“Josh Taylor, I maybe gave him one round in the first six - you’re telling me he won every round in the back half of the fight?” he asked. “Impossible. It was a blatant robbery. Catterall did everything you have to do to beat that kind of fighter, the body shots, the clean shots.
“Last time Josh Taylor struggled was with Regis Prograis, another southpaw. Catterall was clean with that left hand, but the strategy, the game plan, the knockdown, that was all Catterall's side.
“It’s shameful and it happens all the time. This is painful for the fighter, this was the chance in history to become one of the few to have done it. An unknown like Catterall could be known alongside like Bernard Hopkins, [Oleksandr] Usyk and Crawford. You don’t snatch that away, steal it away from him.
“It’s painful when you go back and you look at the fight, and you look at it objectively, the close rounds, everyone thinks the champion should get them but there were maybe three close rounds. You go to give it to Josh Taylor for grinding it out, but he didn’t do it round by round, tallying the scorecards. You don’t do it [just] by closing out strong.”
