It is always good to win, always useful to be noticed, but if Jack Catterall hoped that victory over Timo Schwarzkopf was going to boost his world-title hopes, he may be disappointed. It was in December 2018 that Catterall, who hails from the Lancashire town of Chorley, was installed as the No 1 in the WBO's super-lightweight rankings and subsequently confirmed at that organisation's mandatory challenger. But any hope that Catterall's wait for a title shot was going to be a short one ended the day Maurice Hooker agreed to a unification fight with Jose Ramirez, the WBC champion. As anyone who like to follow boxing politics knows unifications take priority and unified champions take their mandatories in rotation.
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