{"id":615792,"date":"2026-04-18T21:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/615792\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T21:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:03:12","slug":"under-andy-lee-ben-whittaker-could-yet-answer-all-of-the-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/615792\/","title":{"rendered":"Under Andy Lee, Ben Whittaker could yet answer all of the questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">Whittaker training under Andy Lee is very promising. Lee has the makings of an excellent coach; he has a great boxing mind, especially having been a high-level fighter, and I believe that not only is that under-appreciated, but that it goes a long way. We\u2019ve seen some great fighters struggle to make great coaches, especially recently, but there\u2019s something encouraging about former fighters becoming successful trainers. He seems to be particularly good at communicating, which looks likely to go a long way with someone like Whittaker, who\u2019s so physically gifted and, if anything, needs nurturing psychologically. When Jason Quigley fought Edgar Berlanga, Lee coached him through all 12 rounds brilliantly and got the absolute most out of him. Lee\u2019s also well schooled in the traditions of the Kronk, where tall, rangy fighters \u2013 like Whittaker \u2013 often develop into punchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whittaker training under Andy Lee is very promising. Lee has the makings of an excellent coach; he has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[33002,64,63,122410,802,1920,6653,85],"class_list":["post-615792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-andy-lee","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ben-whittaker","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615792","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=615792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}