{"id":182410,"date":"2025-10-06T22:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T22:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/182410\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T22:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T22:39:08","slug":"ben-whittaker-british-olympic-silver-medallist-joins-matchroom-boxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/182410\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Whittaker: British Olympic silver medallist joins Matchroom Boxing"},"content":{"rendered":"

British Olympic silver medallist Ben Whittaker has signed a long-term deal with Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old won light-heavyweight silver<\/a> at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics before turning professional in 2022.<\/p>\n

He has an unbeaten 9-0-1 record in his professional career, with six of those wins within the distance.<\/p>\n

“I think things happen for a reason. I’m at the right stage in my career now to pick the right platform and go for the right fights. So this move just made sense,” said Whittaker.<\/p>\n

Hearn described Whittaker as a ” generational talent” who has “the world at his feet”.<\/p>\n

“This long-term deal will propel Ben to global superstardom, solidifying his reputation as a household name and steering him towards future world titles. He will be number one,” added Hearn.<\/p>\n

Whittaker’s last match was a second-round stoppage of Liam Cameron<\/a> in their light-heavyweight rematch in April.<\/p>\n

The first bout in October 2024 ended in a controversial draw<\/a>, when both men fell over the ropes and Whittaker was unable to continue because of an injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British Olympic silver medallist Ben Whittaker has signed a long-term deal with Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing. The 28-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-182410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}