{"id":14894,"date":"2024-03-15T07:09:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T07:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/josh-taylor-v-jack-catterall-scot-apologises-as-rematch-postponed\/"},"modified":"2024-03-15T07:09:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T07:09:46","slug":"josh-taylor-v-jack-catterall-scot-apologises-as-rematch-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/josh-taylor-v-jack-catterall-scot-apologises-as-rematch-postponed\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Taylor v Jack Catterall: Scot apologises as rematch postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Josh Taylor apologised to fans after his <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/68298845\" class=\"ssrcss-co0e25-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">long-awaited rematch<\/a><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\"> with Jack Catterall in Leeds was postponed for a second time.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fight was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/64080901\" class=\"ssrcss-co0e25-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">initially called off last year<\/a> after a foot injury for Taylor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now the Scot has revealed he had a &#8220;minor eye procedure&#8221; in early February and at a final check-up on Wednesday was told his &#8220;recovery had slowed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The non-title bout has now been pushed back from 27 April to 25 May and will still take place at First Direct Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Sorry for all inconvenience caused,&#8221; said Taylor. &#8220;To my fans and everyone who bought a ticket and booked travel, I sincerely apologise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Taylor added that the fight, when it happens, &#8220;will be worth the wait&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He earned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/60542055\" class=\"ssrcss-co0e25-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">a contentious split-decision win<\/a> over Catterall in Glasgow when his WBC, WBA, IBF and WBO light-welterweight belts were on the line in February 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/68571086\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Taylor apologised to fans after his long-awaited rematch with Jack Catterall in Leeds was postponed for a second time. The fight was initially called off last year after a foot injury for Taylor. Now the Scot has revealed he had a &#8220;minor eye procedure&#8221; in early February and at a final check-up on Wednesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14896,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14894\/revisions\/14896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}