{"id":288428,"date":"2025-11-28T19:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T19:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/288428\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T19:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T19:40:09","slug":"ben-whittaker-expected-to-fight-for-world-title-in-2027-the-progress-and-the-route-have-got-to-be-perfect-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/288428\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Whittaker expected to fight for world title in 2027: ‘The progress and the route have got to be perfect’ | Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ben Whittaker has long been earmarked as a future world champion.<\/p>\n

The light-heavyweight dazzled at the Tokyo Olympic Games when he won a silver medal. He is unbeaten as a professional fighter.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year he avenged his contentious 2024 draw with Liam Cameron and looks to continue his advance when he boxes Benjamin Gavazi in Birmingham on Saturday.<\/p>\n

“The showmanship, the profile, the noise is brilliant but my motivation is to see him become world champion,” promoter Eddie Hearn told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n

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Watch a ringside angle of Whittaker’s controversial celebrations after beating Liam Cameron<\/p>\n

The route however to a world championship at light-heavyweight is demanding. The outstanding Dmitry Bivol, who went undisputed when he won his rematch with Artur Beterbiev, holds the WBA, WBO and IBF championships.<\/p>\n

WBC titlist David Benavidez recently handed another British light-heavyweight, Anthony Yarde a punishing stoppage loss.<\/p>\n

At the start of this year Callum Smith overcame Joshua Buatsi in a thrilling 12-round battle to win the WBO Interim title. That has positioned the Liverpudlian for his own eventual world title shot.<\/p>\n

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Whittaker stopped Cameron in the second round of their highly-anticipated rematch<\/p>\n

“The progress and the route has got to be perfect,” Hearn said. “There’s the domestic guys, I’m talking Craig Richards, Dan Azeez, Willie Hutchinson.<\/p>\n

“Then you’ve got the level above which is Callum Smith, Anthony Yarde, Buatsi or Zach Parker. Then you’ve got Bivol, Beterbiev and Benavidez, which is a whole other ball game.”<\/p>\n

It means that Whittaker must keep winning and even then could have a wait on his hands.<\/p>\n

“He needs another four or five fights [before a world title]. Can he compete against those guys now? Yeah. Can he beat them? That’s a tough challenge,” the promoter said.<\/p>\n

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A look back at the first fight between Whittaker and Cameron which was brought to a premature end as the pair dramatically fell through the ring ropes<\/p>\n

That would make a world title fight more likely for 2027 than next year.<\/p>\n

“When you have someone like Ben Whittaker we don’t want to throw in an opportunity to challenge Benavidez or Bivol ill-equipped, ill-equipped in terms of experience. We’ve got to be ready,” Hearn said.<\/p>\n

“It’s a brilliant division but one I think he can win a world title in.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Whittaker has long been earmarked as a future world champion. The light-heavyweight dazzled at the Tokyo Olympic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-288428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288428","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=288428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}