{"id":315074,"date":"2025-11-29T21:17:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T21:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/315074\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T21:17:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T21:17:16","slug":"ben-whittaker-vs-benjamin-gavazi-live-latest-updates-from-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/315074\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Whittaker vs. Benjamin Gavazi LIVE: Latest updates from Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nov 29, 2025, 03:56 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>Ben Whittaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/47084980\/ben-whittaker-boxing-global-stardom-eddie-hearn-matchroom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">makes his Matchroom Boxing debut on Saturday,<\/a> taking on German Benjamin Gavazi.<\/p>\n<p>Whittaker (9-0-1, 6 KOs) is one of the hottest prospects in British boxing, with a huge 12 months ahead as he looks to rise through the ranks. his first challenge is a dangerous prospect in Gavazi (19-1, 13 KOs), who has said he is ready to upset the Brit&#8217;s plans.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/47084980\/ben-whittaker-boxing-global-stardom-eddie-hearn-matchroom\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/r1580095_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/47096104\/boxxer-bbc-ben-shalom-boxing-new-broadcast-deal\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/r1581408_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>Promoter Eddie Hearn has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/46624487\/ben-whittaker-eddie-hearn-hints-us-fight-benjamin-gavazi-bout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">already teased a fight in the U.S. <\/a>for Whittaker early in 2026, but the 28-year-old must get through Gavazi first.<\/p>\n<p>The fight is Whittaker&#8217;s first since April, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/44770671\/ben-whittaker-dominates-liam-cameron-win-rematch-via-stoppage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Round 2 knockout over Liam Cameron<\/a>. In his second fight with trainer Andy Lee, Whittaker has said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/47118625\/ben-whittaker-boxing-wants-look-perfect-benjamin-gavazi-eddie-hearn-matchroom-debut\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">he wants to do &#8220;the perfect job&#8221;<\/a> in his home city of Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>Former UFC star Molly McCann featured on the undercard,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/47138847\/molly-mccann-vs-ebonie-cotton-ex-ufc-star-wins-second-pro-boxing-bout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> beating Ebonie Cotton<\/a> in her second professional boxing bout to go 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ESPN&#8217;s live updates for all the action and reaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov 29, 2025, 03:56 PM ET Ben Whittaker makes his Matchroom Boxing debut on Saturday, taking on German&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-315074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}