{"id":290446,"date":"2025-11-29T22:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T22:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/290446\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T22:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T22:43:07","slug":"ben-whittaker-can-give-british-boxing-an-overdue-lift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/290446\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Whittaker can give British boxing an overdue lift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">The thought of him fighting Joshua Buatsi is, however, still appealing. Buatsi\u2019s arguably underperformed, given the expectations that surrounded him when he turned professional. To use wrestling parlance, matching them could make for a \u201closer leaves town\u201d fight. Buatsi could yet even serve as a cautionary tale for Whittaker, who it is hoped in Britain can still become what Buatsi has not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The thought of him fighting Joshua Buatsi is, however, still appealing. Buatsi\u2019s arguably underperformed, given the expectations that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-290446","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\/290446","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=290446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}