{"id":199915,"date":"2025-10-14T17:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T17:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/199915\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T17:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T17:46:08","slug":"boxing-ben-whittaker-to-fight-benjamin-gavazi-in-birmingham-in-november-molly-mccann-also-in-action-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/199915\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing: Ben Whittaker to fight Benjamin Gavazi in Birmingham in November, Molly McCann also in action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ben Whittaker will headline against Benjamin Gavazi in Birmingham on his promotional debut for Matchroom on 29 November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The British Olympic silver medallist left Boxxer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cm28q0qer59o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to join Eddie Hearn&#8217;s stable<\/a> at the beginning of October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Whittaker, 28, will place his undefeated record against German Gavazi in a light-heavyweight bout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Ben Whittaker is the greatest signing any promoter in the world could have made and he levels up from the get-go in front of his home fans in Birmingham,&#8221; Hearn said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gavazi will fight outside Germany for just the second time in his career and is on a 19-fight unbeaten streak since losing his professional debut in 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The rivals will contest the vacant World Boxing Council (WBC) &#8216;silver&#8217; light-heavyweight title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Whittaker currently sits at number nine in the WBC&#8217;s rankings for the world title held by David Benavidez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Benavidez is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cdjx20023xvo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scheduled to defend the belt<\/a> against Londoner Anthony Yarde on 22 November in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former UFC fighter Molly McCann is also in action at the National Exhibition Centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McCann <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c62lx5j6y1jo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">started her boxing career with a win<\/a> in Belfast in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The co-main event will be a rematch between lightweights Cameron Vuong and Gavin Gwynne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Whittaker will headline against Benjamin Gavazi in Birmingham on his promotional debut for Matchroom on 29 November.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-199915","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\/199915","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=199915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}