Regis Prograis hasn't said too much in the build-up to his fight this weekend against Jack Catterall, but on Thursday he let someone else's words do the talking for him.
Prograis and Catterall met the media for a pre-fight press conference, when the former two-time super lightweight world champion dropped a verbal bomb on the proceedings with his mobile phone.
As the conference was coming to a close, Prograis mentioned that Catterall's manager, Sam Jones, was apparently very high on the American's chances of winning a potential fight between the two, pulling out his phone and playing an audio recording of Jones alledgedly saying Prograis would "flatten" Catterall.
"I like Jack, by the way, I know him very well, but I do think you'd flatten him," the voice on the recording said before noting that Prograis is a "different" type of fighter than previous Catterall foe Josh Taylor.
Jones didn't deny that the recording was of his voice, but argued that it was from "two or three years ago" and he's since changed his mind after working with Catterall. Jones later took to social media to further defend himself, writing that the recording was from 2021 when was working with Prograis and trying to convince the former WBC and WBA champion to face Catterall.
"Firstly I was working with Regis at the time and was trying to make the Prograis Catterall fight," Jones wrote on X (formerly Twitter). "We can all dig messages up Regis."
"I’ve got receipts of @RPrograis in s—t he wouldn’t like being brought up," he added in a later post. "It is what it is. Thats the type of man he is."
Both Prograis and Catterall are trying to get back into the world title picture at 140 lbs, with 35-year-old Prograis last in action in 2023 when he lost the WBC strap to Devin Haney. Meanwhile, Catterall has been more active recently, with the 31-year-old last seen defeating Taylor by unanimous decision in May.
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