Josh Taylor is feeling a bit of schadenfreude these days.

The WBO 140-pound titlist from Scotland teed off on England’s Jack Catterall in a recent interview in response to Catterall’s new promotional deal with Eddie Hearn of Matchroom.

Embittered rivals Taylor and Catterall were locked into a rematch of their controversial first fight for nearly a year. But after multiple postponements, the rematch finally fell apart earlier this year after Taylor reportedly suffered a foot injury. Shortly thereafter, Taylor entered into a contract to defend his WBO titlist against former unified lightweight champion Teofimo Lopez, thus leaving Catterall in the lurch. Both Lopez and Taylor are promoted by Top Rank, which announced their fight earlier this month for June 10 at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Formerly promoted by Boxxer, Catterall was seemingly in talks to try and fight WBC junior welterweight titlist Regis Prograis but that fight never materialized. In March, Catterall announced that he signed with Matchroom. The southpaw from Chorley is scheduled to take on Darragh Foley in Manchester on May 27. However, it is not clear how Catterall will attempt to fight for a title at 140, given that none of the current beltholders are aligned with Matchroom.

Taylor, whose points win over Catterall in February of last year is regarded as one of the worst decisions in recent British boxing memory, thinks Catterall’s latest career development has severely disadvantaged him now.

“He’s in a worse position now,” Taylor told Boxing Social. “Stupid f------ … whatever. He’s in a worse position now. It is what it is. The fight is always there. I’ll fight him whenever. But the fight will happen.”

“Depends, just depends,” Taylor said of whether or not he would shake Catterall’s hand after their fight. “Nah, I’ll shake his hand after the fight. If he wants to shake my hand—once I’ve brawled him and knocked him out. I’ll shake his hand and then say, ‘Now, piss off, back under your rock.’ One trick pony. One hit wonder.

“He’s not really got anybody else to go,” Taylor continued. “What happened to the Prograis fight? What happened to the other world title fights? He can’t sell out a phone box, never mind headline a show, so it’s what it is. I couldn’t think a f--- about Jack Catterall.”

Sean Nam is the author of the forthcoming book Murder on Federal Street: Tyrone Everett, the Black Mafia, and the Last Golden Age of Philadelphia Boxing.