Ben Whittaker is currently slated for his next fight against Popeye Rivera on June 27, and looking ahead to the fight Whittaker talks about fighting Stateside, training in Ireland, and shares some thoughts on upcoming fights and opponents he\u2019d like, including Anthony Yarde. Check out some excerpts below.<\/p>\n
Whittaker on training with Andy Lee in Dublin<\/p>\n
\u201cCamp is camp. Dublin is nice, it\u2019s not distractions. The gym\u2019s like 10 minutes away and the only other thing around here is a Tesco and the beach, so it is nice. It\u2019s what you need. I\u2019m around good fighters, Andy\u2019s a good coach, he\u2019s been there and done it himself so this part of my career I\u2019m learning a lot and I\u2019m enjoying it.\u201d<\/p>\n
On wanting to fight Anthony Yarde<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that that\u2019s a very good name. I got a lot of respect for him, he\u2019s done good things, but I think I\u2019d beat him. And it would be a good fight, young pup vs. the older pup \u2014 it would be good.\u201d<\/p>\n
On a potential fight between Bivol and Benavidez<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a good fight for the division. I don\u2019t know if it will happen because Benavidez looks big, man. Their talking about him fighting for the WBC at cruiserweight so if he\u2019s sitting around that weight for a while it will be hard to come down, but it\u2019s a fight that a lot of people want to see.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Whittaker is currently slated for his next fight against Popeye Rivera on June 27, and looking ahead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,85],"class_list":["post-713100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713100","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=713100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}