Jack Catterall has limited time but undisputed remains the aim

Jack Catterall’s trainer Jamie Moore has admitted his man’s days at junior welterweight are numbered heading into the fight against Regis Prograis, but he is still capable of becoming undisputed champion.

Catterall comes into the contest against Prograis without a single belt on the line, but is unlucky not to have all four. He may have got his revenge over Josh Taylor in May, but that win did not provide him with any of the titles he should have taken home in 2022.

However, with the current 140-pound landscape changing due to Ryan Garcia’s drugs ban, Devin Haney’s year away, and Teofimo Lopez potentially moving up to welterweight. Catterall’s trainer Moore believes the stars may align for his man to pick up the belts he was wrongfully denied.

“Eddie [Hearn] has promised Jack [Catterall] a world title shot after this,” Moore told BoxingScene. “I have no doubt he will deliver that, whether it’s a vacant title because Haney and Lopez are maybe going to be vacating. Paro is with Eddie, so it seems like an easy enough fight to make. 

“To become undisputed champion is so difficult and two and a half years ago that was taken away from Jack. No one ever expects to get a second chance again, the way it’s opening up now, you never know. Over the next 12 months, it could actually align that he gets the options, if he can go in there and win a world title, to start getting involved in unifications. It could be the case that it comes full circle, and he gets the chance to become undisputed champion.”

Catterall has spent the majority of his career battling to make the 140-pound limit. Moore hinted at a possible move up to welterweight and an aim of becoming a two-weight world champion. That’s all in the future, however.

“The main focus has got to be on Jack winning a world title,” Moore continued. “If and when he does that, he can try for unifications, to try and become undisputed again. If that’s not an option, I think we should look at moving up to 147 and pastures new.

“He’s thick-set and it’s not easy for him to make the weight by any stretch of the imagination. I’d say the maximum he’s got is three more fights left at 140. I’d imagine then it would be the time to move up before it gets too late. [We’d want] anyone, whoever has got the belts at 147, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves, the focus is firmly on 140 pounds.”