{"id":860081,"date":"2026-08-18T22:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T22:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/860081\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T22:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T22:04:09","slug":"anthony-yarde-could-be-in-line-for-ben-whittaker-in-early-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/860081\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Yarde could be in line for Ben Whittaker in early 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anthony Yarde could come next for Ben Whittaker presuming the up-and-coming contender gets past Conor Wallace in an IBF light heavyweight eliminator on October 3.<\/p>\n

Yarde, 27-4 (24 KOs), is looking for a route back to the title picture at 175lbs after losing to David Benavidez in seven rounds last November<\/a>. That represented the 35-year-old Londoner\u2019s third attempt at light heavyweight honors after brave but losing efforts against Sergey Kovalev (2019) and Artur Beterbiev (2023).<\/p>\n

Yarde\u2019s trainer, Tunde Ajayi, has confirmed to TalkSport<\/a> that the Briton will return in the final part of this year with Nigeria, and Balmoral Promotions, under consideration to host.<\/p>\n

After that, the oft-mentioned showdown with the Matchroom-promoted Whittaker might occur in early 2027, presuming the Olympic silver medallist is ‘ready’ by then.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe spoke to [Matchroom CEO] Frank Smith [about a fight with Whittaker], and they told us he wasn’t going to be ready until early next year,” Ajayi said.<\/p>\n

A bout with long-time rival Joshua Buatsi is not quite off the table but it seems a bout with Whittaker, surely a more lucrative affair at this juncture, carries greater appeal.<\/p>\n

“Ben is on his trajectory now, and people have always tried to build their name on Anthony Yarde,\u201d Ajayi continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want Ben Whittaker to be another Joshua Buatsi where your whole career is built of us and you still don\u2019t fight. We want to see that fight: Anthony Yarde vs Joshua Buatsi, but we also want to see him against the new up-and-coming man [Ben Whittaker]. And Anthony would relish a fight against him.<\/p>\n

“If you want a fight, you know Anthony Yarde is your man. He’s a man who has proved himself over and over again.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Yarde could come next for Ben Whittaker presuming the up-and-coming contender gets past Conor Wallace in an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[33557,64,63,122410,802,1920,6653,85],"class_list":["post-860081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-anthony-yarde","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\/860081","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=860081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}