Via Allan Fox: Carl Frampton said he was “annoyed” to watch undisputed lightweight champion Josh Taylor (19-0, 13 KOs) beat his WBO must-competitor Jack Catterall (26- 1.13 KOs) by an unpopular 12th split last Saturday night.
The judges won for hometown boy Taylor with the scores 114-111, 113-112 for Josh, and 113-112 for Catterall.
Recently retired former two-division world champion Frampton believes Catterall, 28, deserves the win. He said boxing fans at the SSE Hydro Arena in Glasgow, Scotland agreed with him. They felt that Catterall deserved the last raise of hand.
Taylor got out with a lot of punches to the head during the challenge without being punished by referee Marcus McDonnell.
Although 31-year-old Taylor eventually scored a point for hitting Catterall after the 11th-round closing bell, he escaped multiple rabbit punches without penalty.
Frampton won the Catterall
“I think Jack Catterall won the fight, and I’m asking everyone around the ring, and they all think Jack won the fight,” Carl Frampton told Professional boxing fan on Saturday last week Taylor vs Catterall clash in Glasgow.
“I want to make it clear that I am good friends with Jack and Joshua, but I always want to be honest,” Frampton said. “I try to score a game from a neutral perspective, and I don’t see how a judge would give that to Jack if I’m being honest.
“I don’t think the referee controlled the fight. There are two points deductions, and I don’t think either of them is guaranteed, if I’m being honest. It’s kind of like, ‘I’ll deduct him, and I’ll deduct you.’
“It’s just this f*** game. You are fed up with it, you know what I mean? I love Josh. By the way, I’m going to his wedding. Hopefully I still have, but you have to be fair, and the wrong man raised his hand,” Frampton said.
It’s pretty clear now that the boxing world had Catterall win last Saturday night, and Taylor got a win in a home fight that he didn’t deserve.
The real downside of all this is Catterall May Have Made a Life-Changing Money if he has won. We’re talking millions of potential future earnings that Catterall will miss out on, thanks to his questionable defeat to Taylor.
For a fighter like Catterall, it’s been years without get the taste of millions; that is Must be a disappointment.
Unfortunately, it’s unlikely that Catterall will ever get an opportunity like this again. Once Taylor vacates her four titles, they will be fragmented and Catterall will need to battle one of these killers for ONE of the vacated titles:
- Jose Zepeda
- Regis Prograis
- Jose Ramirez
- Subriel Matias
- Shohjahon Ergashev
- Montana love
- Teofimo Lopez Jr
- Arnold Barboza Jr
As good as Catterall went up against Taylor last Saturday night, it remains to be seen whether he can beat any of the boxers above to claim Josh’s vacated title when he relinquishes them. are not.
Carl predicts a competitive war
“I knew it was going to be a competitive fight, and when I started, I told everyone it was ‘going to be a competition. Josh is the favorite and deserves it, and Josh should win the fight. ‘ But Jack won the war for me‘ Frampton continued.
“Jack is really cute and has a good touch, and distance control is also good with Josh. I feel like Josh got frustrated at times and tried to get too close.
“Some of his best work has actually been done up close. But Jack is really cute with his shoulders and inside, doing Roberto Duran stuff, cleaning up the dirty stuff you shouldn’t be throwing away.
“I’m just annoyed, I’m annoyed. Going into this war, I said that I would be happy with whoever wins the war, and I will be disappointed with whoever loses.
“I’m standing here saying, ‘What the hell!’ I haven’t seen anyone in the ring think Jack didn’t win that fight,” Frampton said of his view that Catterall did enough to gauge victory. This game sucks sometimes,” Frampton said.
It came as no surprise to Frampton that Taylor won against Catterall as he was fighting at home in Scotland in front of his boxing fans.
Whenever you catch a famous boxer competing in front of a large crowd of supporters, the umpires will subconsciously award him the ring based on the noise of the crowd.
Ideally, judges should be in a soundproof booth so they can’t hear the crowd and their view should be limited to the circle.
If they could see fans in the ring jumping around every time their hometown boxer landed, they might be influenced by their reaction.
Finally, there should be accountability to the judges for being judged on their performance. Just like in the military, you are given the pros and cons when being evaluated for promotion.
If you don’t show leadership and if you’re messed up, your career won’t go anywhere.
Judges should be evaluated and removed if they are judged poorly and are not performing their job at an optimal level.
Taylor will rise to 147
“I think Josh might get a promotion [to 140],” said Carl. “You can see that he struggled a bit with the light welder. He’s a light welder, and he’ll probably move up to heavyweight.
“There are a lot of matches in the heavyweight divisionbut hopefully, people see the good things that Jack Catterall has done.
“If Josh vacated the titles, Jack would try to fight for one of those vacated titles because he deserved it, he totally deserves it,” Frampton said of the hope that Catterall got the chance to fight for one of the 140-lb titles when Taylor vacated them.
It’s best for 31-year-old Taylor to try and get the biggest-money bout available at 147, be it WBO heavyweight champion Terence Crawford, Keith Thurman, or winner Errol Spence Jr. with. Yordenis Ugas.
If Crawford (38-0, 29 KOs) is the best Taylor can hit with 147 points, so be it. What Taylor couldn’t have was hanging around the welterweight division and finding herself needing to beat one of the talented young contenders like Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis, Vergil Ortiz Jr., or Conor Benn and lose to them. .
After watching Taylor wrestle in three of his last four fights against Catterall, Jose Ramirez and Regis Prograis, it’s unlikely he’ll beat Ennis, Vergil Jr, Thurman, Benn or David Avanesyan.
