{"id":67637,"date":"2022-02-25T10:12:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T16:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/josh-taylor-y-jack-catterall-superaron-pesaje\/"},"modified":"2022-02-25T10:14:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T16:14:13","slug":"weight-of-expectation-surrounds-josh-taylor-and-jack-catterall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/weight-of-expectation-surrounds-josh-taylor-and-jack-catterall\/","title":{"rendered":"Weight of expectation surrounds Josh Taylor and Jack Catterall"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Weight of expectation surrounds Josh Taylor and Jack Catterall<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Undefeated, undisputed super lightweight champion and Scotsman Josh Taylor, will be defending his title against also undefeated contender, Jack Catterall from England this Saturday at \u201cThe SSE Hydro\u201d, in Glasgow, Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>Great Scot! The 30-year-old champion unified all four titles when he defeated Jos\u00e9 Carlos Ram\u00edrez last May, sending him to the canvas twice, for a unanimous decision victory.<\/p>\n<p>With this win, Taylor (18-0, 13 KOs) established himself not only as the best super lightweight in the world, but also as one of the best pound-for-pound boxers working today.<\/p>\n<p>Catterall (26-0, 13 KOs) has waited a long time for his first title shot. He was scheduled to face Taylor earlier, but stepped aside to allow the Taylor vs. Ramirez to happen.<\/p>\n<p>At Friday&#8217;s official weigh-in, Taylor weighed smack bang on the 140-pound limit, while Catterall clocked in at 139 pounds, for the first world title challenge of his career.<\/p>\n<p>The transmission for the United Kingdom will be through SKY SPORTS, for the United States through ESPN + and for Latin America through ESPN KNOCKOUT.<\/p>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/suljosblog.com\/suljos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/caterall-weigh-in.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-93073\" src=\"https:\/\/suljosblog.com\/suljos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/caterall-weigh-in.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"443\" height=\"448\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/suljosblog.com\/suljos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2019\/taylor-weigh.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-93074\" src=\"https:\/\/suljosblog.com\/suljos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2019\/taylor-weigh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/suljosblog.com\/suljos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/yaylor-catterall-weigh-in.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-93076\" src=\"https:\/\/suljosblog.com\/suljos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/yaylor-catterall-weigh-in.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1347\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weight of expectation surrounds Josh Taylor and Jack Catterall Undefeated, undisputed super lightweight champion and Scotsman Josh Taylor, will be defending his title against also undefeated<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":67630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,121,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-main-news","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}