Josh Taylor vs Jack Catterall rematch: I created British boxing history, then complacency crept in, says Taylor | Boxing News

Josh Taylor is relishing the chance to fight Jack Catterall again.

Taylor admitted to growing “satisfied” ahead of his controversial first fight. But he warned them not to make the “same mistake twice”.

In February Taylor won a much-debated split decision over Catterall to defend his undisputed super-lightweight crown.

The two will fight again this year to settle the score.

“I’ve been waiting for this long, I have to drop the belt, I have to drop all the belts that are close enough, I have the WBO, just to make this fight and prove that I’m the real champion,” said Taylor Sky Sports News.

From the first fight he joined a new trainer in Joe McNally and promised a different mentality going into the second Catterall fight.

“I just needed a new change in my approach,” Taylor said.

“I just felt that in the previous camp I had been thrown out of my nature and changed my style a little bit. I had to get back to myself.

“I think what he has achieved in 18 fights and only four or five years as a professional, to be the undisputed champion, nobody has ever done it before in England in the era of four belts, to make a big part of history, I’m just a little bit satisfied ,” he said.

“I try to learn from other athletes and boxers to be satisfied, but I’m only human in the end and maybe a little bit, but I won’t make the same mistake twice.”

Catterall maintained that the decision had to be made and vowed to do so at the second meeting.

“For me it’s about cementing my name together with the top fighters in my weight division and hopefully this time I get a fair shake,” he said. Sky Sports News.

“There was a lot of talk from Josh before the first fight about how he was going to beat me, outpunch, outbox me and I had an answer for him that night.

“I still believe I have the answers and the ability to beat him.”