{"id":557543,"date":"2026-04-29T21:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T21:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/557543\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T21:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T21:03:11","slug":"next-fight-of-ben-whittaker-confirmed-for-june-27-against-richard-rivera-in-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/557543\/","title":{"rendered":"Next fight of Ben Whittaker confirmed for June 27 against Richard Rivera in Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rivera, 27-2 (20 KOs), is perhaps best known for losing a 10-round split decision to Badou Jack in the summer of 2022. The 35-year-old, known as &#8220;Popeye The Sailor Man&#8221;, hasn&#8217;t otherwise mixed in world class circles and will be a heavy underdog in a bout designed as a showcase for the promising Whittaker, 11-0-1 (8 KOs). Rivera last fought in January 2025, knocking out Roger Guerrero in two rounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rivera, 27-2 (20 KOs), is perhaps best known for losing a 10-round split decision to Badou Jack in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[191542,2560,6102,10078,191541,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-557543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-ben-whittaker-next-fight","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-next-fight-of-ben-whittaker","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557543","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=557543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}