{"id":911865,"date":"2026-10-01T05:24:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T05:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/911865\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T05:24:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T05:24:21","slug":"ben-whittaker-eyeing-move-to-cruiserweight-to-take-on-david-benavidez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/911865\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Whittaker eyeing move to cruiserweight to take on David Benavidez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">David Benavidez may have left the light-heavyweight division, but he has not left Ben Whittaker&#8217;s sights.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Whittaker returns this Saturday at Birmingham, England\u2019s BP Pulse LIVE in a final eliminator for the IBF light-heavyweight title against Ireland\u2019s Conor Wallace. Victory would secure the 12-0-1 (9 KOs) Whittaker a shot at the IBF strap currently owned by unified champion Dmitry Bivol. Whittaker has swept through the overmatched Benjamin Gavazzi, Braian Suarez and Richard Rivera in a combined four rounds in his last three bouts, leading to calls for him to take on stiffer opposition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Benavidez may have left the light-heavyweight division, but he has not left Ben Whittaker&#8217;s sights. Whittaker returns&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,122410,802,1920,6653,13412,85],"class_list":["post-911865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ben-whittaker","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-david-benavidez","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911865","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=911865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}