channel<\/a>, giving his thoughts on light heavyweight contender Ben Whittaker.<\/p>\nWhittaker\u2019s Mental Fragility Exposed<\/p>\n
Bradley is obviously basing much of his opinion on how Whittaker mentally crumbled when being relentlessly attacked by Cameron in their first bout. I can understand why Tim would see Whittsaker as \u201cfool\u2019s gold\u201d after watching that fight. That wasn\u2019t even against a top-tier contender.<\/p>\n
Although Ben knocked out Cameron in the second round of their rematch on April 20 this year, you still have to question whether we would have seen a similar breakdown if the contest had gone into the later rounds.<\/p>\n
As the saying goes, \u2018coming events cast their shadows before.\u2019 Whittaker has already shown that he can\u2019t handle pressure from fighters walking him down. Predictably, he\u2019ll rapidly disintegrate when he faces a pressure fighter that ignores his junk style and keeps attacking him.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re [Matchroom] trying to move him quickly because he\u2019s 28 years old. It\u2019s not old. He\u2019s facing a guy [Benjamin Gavazi] with double the amount of fights that he has, a guy that is gritty,\u201d said Bradley about Whittaker.<\/p>\n
Matchroom\u2019s Risky Investment<\/p>\n
Matchroom has no choice but to move Whittaker quickly. He turns 29 next year, and they\u2019ve got to push him much faster than they would a younger fighter if they want to take advantage of his youth. If Whittaker can\u2019t handle being moved quickly, he\u2019ll fail. It would be interesting to know if Matchroom has an early release escape clause in its contract with Whittaker if he doesn\u2019t pan out.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe reason I think he\u2019s fool\u2019s gold\u2026He has all these moves, but he\u2019s never going to make it to the big leagues. If Ben can\u2019t knock this guy out early, it could get difficult for him. I don\u2019t see him beating nobody at 175 lbs, nobody in the top 10,\u201d said Bradley about Whittaker.<\/p>\n
Based on Whittaker\u2019s performance in his first fight with Cameron, I don\u2019t see him beating any of these light heavyweight contenders:<\/p>\n
David Morrell
\nArlen Lopez
\nAnthony Yarde
\nImam Khataev
\nArtur Beterbiev
\nOleksandr Gvozdyk<\/p>\n
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Boxing News 24<\/a> \u00bb Tim Bradley Slams Ben Whittaker as \u2018Fool\u2019s Gold,\u2019 Predicts He\u2019ll Never Crack the Top 10 at Light Heavyweight<\/p>\nLast Updated on 10\/17\/2025 \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim Bradley says he views Ben Whittaker as \u201cfool\u2019s gold\u201d ahead of his Matchroom debut against Benjamin Gavazi…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-207137","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\/207137","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=207137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}