IBF, WBO, WBC junior welterweight champion Josh Taylor is not looking to move up in weight until he settles some scores at 140-pounds.

One of those scores is a rematch with Jack Catterall.

Back in February, Taylor won a controversial twelve round split decision over Catterall in a WBO mandatory defense.

Before a rematch can be entertained, the WBC ordered Taylor to make a mandatory defense against Jose Zepeda. 

“I want to shut everyone up,” said Taylor to The National. “The only reason I’m staying at the weight is I want to fight Catterall again. 

“I don’t think it was the wrong decision [in February] but I want to shut everyone up. I want to prove that was an off night for me and that I’m one of the best fighters on the planet. Because of all the stick and abuse I’ve been getting, and the way Jack’s been too, mouthing off and moaning, I just want to shut his mouth. The single reason I’m staying at the weight is to shut him and everyone else up.”

Taylor expects his fight with Zepeda to take place in September or October.

After that fight, he will go after Catterall.

“It’s frustrating because anyone who knows me knows I’d fight with my shadow in an empty house. I’m not scared to fight anybody. But boxing fans are so fickle, they change like the weather. Often, they don’t understand the business and then it starts getting personal. And if they didn’t have that keyboard in front of them, there’s no way they’d say it," Taylor said.

“Everything I’ve done, being the first guy from the UK to become undisputed world champion, in only 18 fights – has that been forgotten?  My run up to the Catterall fight had been defeating undefeated champion after undefeated champion, I beat them all. And I beat Jack too, on a really bad performance so it’s quite funny how quickly people forget.

“It would have been Jack before Zepeda if it could have been worked out, without the boxing politics and mandatories getting in the way. I’d rather be fighting Jack next but Zepeda is a big fight and people who are talking it down are people who don’t know the business. He’s a top-level fighter. After I fight Zepeda, then Catterall, I’ll move up to 147 and get some big fights."