Josh Taylor scores Jack Catterall fight and claims surprise result

Josh Taylor beat Jack Catterall by a split decision victory at the OVO Hydro last month, maintaining his unbeaten record as well as his world champion status. However, there has been much controversy surrounding the result, with many believing that Chorley fighter Catterall had been the more impressive fighter on the night.

Taylor has been ordered to now fight Alberto Puello to defend his WBA (Super), WBC, IBF, WBO and The Ring light-welterweight titles. Meanwhile, Catterall will have to work his way back towards a world title shot - this is the reason for such controversy, given the stakes and the case was even referred to the police by the Speaker of the House of Commons, Chorley MP Sir Lindsay Hoyle.

And now, Scotsman Taylor has addressed the result, even revealing that he scored the fight himself. While he admitted that Catterall could have claimed victory, the result was correct in his view.

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The 31-year-old explained: ""I am still of the opinion that I did just enough to the win the fight," he told Sky Sports News, "I have watched it back a few times now and my first impressions when I watched the fight back is that it was a very close fight and it could have gone either way.

"I personally scored the fight 113-112 to myself, but I can see why a lot of people thought Jack won because there were a lot of rounds in there that could have gone either way, you could have scored it for Jack or for myself, a lot of swing rounds.

"So if it had been a draw it would have been a fair result, if it had gone to Jack by a point or two I wouldn't have grumbled, either."