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IN A fight that will be sold on name value alone, the fifth-ranked super-lightweight, Jack Catterall, takes on the 38-year-old Jorge Linares in a bout that could be one-sided, despite the veteran’s illustrious track record.
The Venezuelan’s achievements have come in the increasingly distant past. One must go back to 2018 – five long years ago – for the last time Linares won a fight that was scheduled over the championship distance. We must go back further, to 2017, for evidence of Linares being capable of beating fighters at the level Catterall is deemed to be.
Yet this is Linares, after all –