Andy Lee
Irish former professional boxerWikipedia
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Oct 10, 2026
Petesy CarrollPANELIST
I think he has a lot going for him.
Petesy CarrollPANELIST
He has Andy Lee.
Petesy CarrollPANELIST
He has a very flashy style.
Petesy CarrollPANELIST
But it's very bad optics, as Dan was saying, towards the end of the fight there.
Carl FrochHOST
So to say it was too easy was stupid.
Carl FrochHOST
And then his trainer, Andy Lee, it's one I've thought it couldn't get any worse.
Carl FrochHOST
He got in the ring and said, oh, by the way, he's just had COVID.
Andy LeeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Andy, how on earth would you sum that up? I thought it was a great performance.
Tom IversGUEST
Eddie Hearn said it worked perfectly after the fight.
Tom IversGUEST
That is a guy he expected Whittaker to be dealing with pretty easily, so... look, Whitaker, not himself said this, but Andy Lee said he's been suffering with COVID, etc.
Tom IversGUEST
Go out and prove that next time that it was a blip.
Tom IversGUEST
Because I've always been really high on him, but that did leave me with a few question marks.
Terry ChapendamaHOST
But why doesn't he? Talent's there, pedigree's there, the experience is there.
Terry ChapendamaHOST
Why doesn't he? What's going on with Andy Lee that we're not seeing the progression and we're not seeing the evolution? And I know I'm gonna get a hard time from Ben's old man for this episode, but this is what I stand on because I was early on Ben Whittaker when I told people, "I think this kid's special." I believe Ben Whittaker should've gone to the 2016 Olympics.
Terry ChapendamaHOST
I believe it's a different Ben Whittaker if we select him for the Olympics in 2016.
Terry ChapendamaHOST
One, I believe he medals in 2016.
Terry ChapendamaHOST
Two, more importantly, he turns pro in 2017, and so he'd have been nine years a pro now, seasoned, hardened, like Willie Hutchinson, but far more talented, far more gifted.
Terry ChapendamaHOST
So I come back to the question, what is Andy Lee doing or not doing? 'Cause the number of times you hear in the commentary, "Ah, Andy Lee and that famed Kronk style." Ben Whittaker doesn't box like a Kronk fighter.
Terry ChapendamaHOST
He hasn't got the double jab backhand like McClellan had, like Tommy Hearns had, like Hal McKenty had, like almost every Kronk fighter has.
Terry ChapendamaHOST
James Tony has it.
Eddie HearnGUEST
And I don't know whether that was because he had, he was ill leading up or whatever.
Eddie HearnGUEST
And look, Andy Lee's not gonna make that up, by the way, and Ben Whittaker's not-
Colin McGuiganHOST
Did you know about that at all before?
Eddie HearnGUEST
Not, didn't know about it at all.
Colin McGuiganHOST
Okay.
Eddie HearnGUEST
He was a little bit... [sighs] In the build-up to the fight, he was a little bit, he didn't want to do too much.
Eddie HearnGUEST
Do you know what I mean? Which kind of led me to think, what, what, what's up? But got in the ring after, Andy Lee came over to me, went, "He's had COVID.
Eddie HearnGUEST
We had a bloody nightmare, blah, blah, blah." He said, "Don't say nothing because he won't want you to use it as excuse, but I'm gonna say something." I'm like, "Thank God for that, because if I said it, I'd just get ruined." [laughs] So Andy Lee went on and said, "Listen, he had CO-" Now listen, tough shit really.
Kugan CassiusHOST
Now Eddie Hearn's saying he needs another fight.
Kugan CassiusHOST
I just, the whole final eliminator thing, to me, if you're, if you're going for that or you're okay with that, then in some way, in Andy Lee's brain, or Ben Whittaker's brain, or the team's brain, if you're in a final eliminator and you look good in that final eliminator, then you're going to be fighting Bivol or Callum Smith next, or after.
Kugan CassiusHOST
Your thoughts, Gareth?
Gareth A. DaviesGUEST
Well, I think you just described it all.
Sean TyndallHOST
Maybe that comes from the fact that.
Sean TyndallHOST
One of our own and one of the greatest of our Irish boxers and one of my favourite fighters of all time of course was Andy Lee was training Ben Whittaker but I'm sure Andy Lee would understand as much better than most that people support Conor Wallace against an Englishman.
Sean TyndallHOST
It seemed to me at times, and how am I going to put this, there was a lot of public comments were very different to what was being said in the background.
Sean TyndallHOST
Very different to what was being messaged and calls that were being made.
Gareth A. DaviesHOST
The return four stoppages after that looked extraordinary.
Gareth A. DaviesHOST
We spoke about it last week, how much he's come on under Andy Lee.
Gareth A. DaviesHOST
He tried to put Conor Wallace away.
Gareth A. DaviesHOST
Let's take nothing away from Conor Wallace.
Ade OladipoHOST
I mean, look, this win put him as an IBF mandatory.
Ade OladipoHOST
He clearly isn't that.
Ade OladipoHOST
So I think, um, everyone needs to pull back on the reins, whether that's Matchroom, Andy Lee, Ben himself.
Ade OladipoHOST
I just think there needs to be a few honest conversations.
Paul SmithPANELIST
I think he was hurt.
Paul SmithPANELIST
When Andy Lee come on at the end and said, um, he'd had COVID, that would explain a lot.
Paul SmithPANELIST
I, I'm not gonna question Andy's integrity because he's a, he's a, he's a lovely fella and he speaks the truth, but you can't really use that as an excuse as well-
Spencer OliverHOST
No, I thought that was-
Eddie HearnGUEST
And...
Eddie HearnGUEST
You know, what was it? Was it he took the eye off the ball? Was it that he's never done 12 championship rounds before? Was it that he was ill, as Andy Lee said? I don't know, but obviously he was hanging on.
Eddie HearnGUEST
And, you know, I think he showed a lot of steel in that fight towards the end because the criticism in the past of, oh, he's got...
Eddie HearnGUEST
I mean, the reality is, is he looked to me like his tank just emptied.
Eddie HearnGUEST
I weren't hurt, but I was exhausted because that's what he looked like to me.
Eddie HearnGUEST
He looked like he was exhausted.
Eddie HearnGUEST
Now, was that because Andy Lee said he had COVID? Was that because it's his first time doing the championship rounds? Was it the shots that Connor was landing? Was it that? I don't know.
Eddie HearnGUEST
But the reality is, got to be better.
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