Is it enough for Ben Whittaker to just win?

Even if that is true, there is still an expectation. There is an expectation for Whittaker to not only win, but win convincingly, and Suarez, for all his power, has lost four times in 25 pro fights, three times by stoppage. Last year he was outpointed over eight rounds by Vasily Voytsekhovsky in Russia, while the year before that he was stopped in two by Sharabutdin Ataev. He is known to British fans, however, for his thrilling fight with Lyndon Arthur in 2023, during which Suarez dropped Arthur only to fall apart himself in round 10. If anything encapsulates Suarez – the good, the bad, and the ugly – it’s probably that fight, which he lost.