{"id":312971,"date":"2025-11-27T21:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T21:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/312971\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T21:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T21:36:09","slug":"ben-whitaker-battles-benjamin-gavazi-for-the-wbc-silver-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/312971\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Whitaker battles Benjamin Gavazi for the WBC Silver Championship\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Whitaker battles Benjamin Gavazi for the WBC Silver Championship\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s Ben Whittaker will face Germany\u2019s Benjamin Gavazi on Saturday, November 29, 2025, in Birmingham, in what will be his first fight under the Matchroom Boxing banner after signing a long-term promotional deal.<\/p>\n<p>Whittaker, an Olympic silver medalist, enters as one of the most promising prospects at 175 pounds, boasting a record of 9-0-1 (6 KOs).<\/p>\n<p>Gavazi, at 19-1, is far from a tune-up opponent: his only defeat came in his professional debut, and he recently captured the WBC International light-heavyweight title.<\/p>\n<p>The belt at stake will be the WBC Silver light-heavyweight championship \u2014 adding an extra layer of significance to the clash.<\/p>\n<p>For Whittaker, this bout marks a key test in his rapid ascent, while Gavazi will aim to establish himself as a legitimate contender in the higher tiers of the division.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_170508\" class=\"pvc_stats all  pvc_load_by_ajax_update\" data-element-id=\"170508\" style=\"\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763584570_459_ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Whitaker battles Benjamin Gavazi for the WBC Silver Championship\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Britain\u2019s Ben Whittaker will face Germany\u2019s Benjamin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-312971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312971","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=312971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}