Josh Taylor calls out Jack Catterall for rematch as Tartan Tornado vows to restore 'selfish' mentality

Josh Taylor has called for a rematch with Jack Catterall – but insists he’s going to call the shots from now on.

The Tartan Tornado lost the last of his world titles when he was beaten by Teofimo Lopez in New York last month. Taylor, 32, reckons he went into that contest too soon after a foot injury and should have delayed it. But the Prestonpans ace says he’s got his hunger back now that he’s hunting for titles rather than defending them.

And he’s already eyeing up his next outing in the autumn – but only if the terms suit him. He said: “I’ll be out before the end of the year again, hopefully October or November time. I’ll do what’s best for me. In the last two years after the Jose Ramirez fight I’ve made deals to please other people. So, it’s time to get back to being selfish again and doing what’s best for me.

“I’ll go down this week to Liverpool, get all my tests done, and go over what went well and what went wrong in the Lopez fight. There were a lot of factors in that camp, things that didn’t go my way. I went into the fight when I maybe shouldn’t have. I should have delayed it four or five weeks.

“But I just wanted to fight. I’d been out of the ring long enough. Now I just have to get straight back on the horse. I’m still the best in the business, believe it or not! If anything, it’s taking all the pressure off me. I can now relax and enjoy boxing again. I can get back to being the hunter and not the hunted.

“That’s where I’m better, when I’m the hunter and back being hungry again. I can be the underdog again and that’s where I’ll thrive.”

Taylor still expects to move up a weight division to fight at welterweight at some point But he reveals he definitely WILL take on Catterall at some point to finally settle all