{"id":195857,"date":"2025-10-07T18:23:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T18:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/195857\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T18:23:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T18:23:01","slug":"matchroom-announce-game-changer-signing-of-ben-whittaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/195857\/","title":{"rendered":"Matchroom announce &#8216;game changer&#8217; signing of Ben Whittaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LiondwTue Oct 7, 2025, 10:56 AM UTC<\/p>\n<p>A talented boxer, can work on a few things for sure.<\/p>\n<p>No need to rush him in to a title fight now when youd think it&#8217;s be tough for him to be that competitive, or even upset Benavidez, Bivol or Beterbiev.<\/p>\n<p>Nash outMon Oct 6, 2025, 11:15 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>He looks very flashy when allowed to, but has very limited power, and also, when dragged into a fight, he struggles. Any top guy deals with him handily. He could be a world champion for a limited period if they match him with a short time weak champion\/weak contender for an open belt, but that&#8217;s his ceiling. He won&#8217;t be beating<\/p>\n<p>RJJ-94-02=GOATMon Oct 6, 2025, 11:06 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>Yeah I expect he gets found out sooner rather than later. Will be interesting to see how they match him. <\/p>\n<p>Reminds me of DeGale in the sense that he\u2019s massively bought into his own hype despite glaring flaws. DeGale was a better fighter than Whittaker too.<\/p>\n<p>M312Mon Oct 6, 2025, 11:03 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>What makes you think Andy Lee is that guy though? He&#8217;s been hyped up for his work with Tyson and Parker, but Tyson Fury was actually under Sugar Hill and Parker has arguably lost 3 times under Lee, including one absolute battering v Joe Joyce.<\/p>\n<p>When we delve deeper in Parker and Lee, Parker is still very gunshy, he won&#8217;t commit<\/p>\n<p>IronDanHamzaMon Oct 6, 2025, 10:40 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>Going no where fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LiondwTue Oct 7, 2025, 10:56 AM UTC A talented boxer, can work on a few things for sure.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,122410,802,1920,6653,9915,49934,85],"class_list":["post-195857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ben-whittaker","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-eddie-hearn","tag-matchroom","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}