{"id":803491,"date":"2026-07-16T07:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T07:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/803491\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T07:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T07:48:12","slug":"ben-whittaker-vs-conor-wallace-ibf-eliminator-planned-for-october-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/803491\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Whittaker vs Conor Wallace IBF eliminator planned for October 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\"><a href=\"https:\/\/talksport.com\/boxing\/4415999\/ben-whittaker-advanced-negotiations-world-title-eliminator-conor-wallace\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TalkSPORT<\/a> reports that light heavyweights Ben Whittaker and Conor Wallace are in \u201cadvanced negotiations\u201d to meet in an October 3rd IBF eliminator at Birmingham\u2019s Utilita Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Australia\u2019s Wallace (17-1, 12 KO), 30, has never fought outside his home country and his biggest win to date saw him edge out Jerome Pampellone in what was, if BoxRec is to be believed, Pampellone\u2019s second consecutive IBF eliminator despite losing the first one to Malik Zinad. This means he\u2019s actually the higher-ranked of the two, sitting behind the empty slot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/boxing-results\/115973\/dmitry-bivol-shuts-out-michael-eifert-in-return-what-comes-next-boxing-news-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">formerly occupied by Michael Eifert<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Tokyo silver medalist Whittaker (12-0-1, 9 KO) has ended his last four fights in under two rounds apiece, starting with a quick finish of Liam Cameron in their rematch and most recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/live-boxing-updates\/116905\/xander-zayas-vs-boots-ennis-live-streaming-results-reactions-updates-boxing-news-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">smashing Richard Rivera last month<\/a>. He seems to have really found his stride as a professional, but we\u2019re still waiting on the top-tier test that Wallace, on paper, doesn\u2019t seem apt to provide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">At least he\u2019s staying busy; this would be his third fight in six months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TalkSPORT reports that light heavyweights Ben Whittaker and Conor Wallace are in \u201cadvanced negotiations\u201d to meet in an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,85],"class_list":["post-803491","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\/803491","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=803491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}