{"id":333042,"date":"2025-12-24T09:21:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T09:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/333042\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T09:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T09:21:13","slug":"ben-whittaker-contacted-by-david-benavidezs-team-about-future-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/333042\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Whittaker contacted by David Benavidez\u2019s team about future fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u201cAt the end of the day, skill-wise, I believe I&#8217;m better than the whole division,\u201d the Andy Lee-trained Whittaker said. \u201cBut at the end of the day, I&#8217;ve not been in fights where I might be cut, I might be hurt, I might be this and that. At the end of the day, I&#8217;ve had 11 fights. You look at Benavidez, he&#8217;s had 32 fights. So at the end of the day, I&#8217;ve had an amateur experience, not a pro experience. He\u2019s been pro since he was a teenager. So for me, people can say what they want to say, but when I get my experience, and I start beating everybody, they can\u2019t say much\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAt the end of the day, skill-wise, I believe I&#8217;m better than the whole division,\u201d the Andy Lee-trained&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[83265,2560,6102,10078,9556,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-333042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-ben-whittaker","9":"tag-boxing","10":"tag-boxing-news","11":"tag-boxingscene","12":"tag-david-benavidez","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333042","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=333042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}