Regis Prograis: Jack Catterall’s resume can’t compare with mine

Jack Catterall has a victory over one of the only two men to beat Regis Prograis in professional prizefighting. But when it comes to what they’ve done in the junior welterweight division, Prograis says there’s no comparison between him and his upcoming opponent.

“I really don’t see that he’s a better fighter than me,” Prograis said in a recent interview with Louis Hart of Boxing Social. “Look at my resume. I fought better boxers. I fought bigger punchers. I fought people with more experience. I’m not trying to down nobody or nothing like that, but you have to compare resumes. What is his knockout rate? Like a few knockouts or something like that.

“Compare our resumes. The only thing was, he got famous from a Josh Taylor thing, and really that was it. But as far as anything else, look at my resume, look at the champions I fought, look at the ex-champions I fought. How many people did I fight that never been stopped, that never been dropped? We can go down the line of the people that I fought and what I did. It’s really no comparison.”

Prograis and Catterall are scheduled to fight on Oct. 26 at the Co-op Live in Manchester, England, on a show being broadcast on DAZN.

Prograis (29-2, 24 KOs) is a two-time former titleholder. The 35-year-old, who is originally from New Orleans and now lives in Houston, picked up the WBA belt in April 2019 with a victory over Kiryl Relikh as part of the World Boxing Super Series, then lost the title to Josh Taylor via majority decision in the tournament’s finale.

Prograis then picked up the vacant WBC belt in November 2022 with an 11th-round technical knockout of Jose Zepeda. He lost it in his second defense, dropped, dominated and shut out by Devin Haney in December 2023. That was Prograis’ last appearance in the ring.

Catterall (29-1, 13 KOs) perhaps should’ve been the undisputed champ. He faced Taylor in February 2022 and received the sour end of a split decision. Catterall, a 31-year-old from Chorley, England, has won three fights in a row since then, including a rematch victory over Taylor in May. But by then Taylor had vacated most of his titles and lost his remaining belt, and the lineal championship, to Teofimo Lopez.

“I’m not going to say he’s not a decent fighter, but I feel like my level is not the same level. He’s not on the same level as me,” Prograis said. “I feel like I’m definitely more superior. Even with the two bad performances I had, I still feel like I’m more superior, and that was all mental stuff going on with me. Physically, if you put the same Regis in there physically that was a champion and then a two-time champion, you put that Regis in with Jack Catterall, there’s no comparison.”

Follow David Greisman on Twitter @FightingWords2. His book, “Fighting Words: The Heart and Heartbreak of Boxing,” is available on Amazon.