Benjamin Whittaker

stadium this is a guy who's going to be the future face of British boxing and he has a lot of fanfare around him and I just don't think from what we've seen in 14 fights from him he's going to live up to those lofty expectations and it's sometimes not fair but that's what promoters do and when you go from one promoter to the next and you sign with Eddie Hearn and Eddie Hearn just uses his megaphone and doubles down on those lofty expectations you're looking for a guy that could potentially fill a stadium like Wembley and like an Anthony Joshua, but we have to actually have it inside of the ring.

And what I saw in the Liam Cameron fight, where he flipped him over the ropes, and we can't prove it for sure, but it just seems like when the going gets tough with Ben Whittaker, he kind of looks for a way out, or he panics, or he...

He just cannot face adversity without something wacky going down.

And this fight here this past weekend with Conor Wallace, you're right, he did win fair and square, but I cannot unsee that 10th, 11th, and 12th round.

You've been watching Ben for a long time, covering him as well.

What did you make of his performance? And do you agree with Dan when he calls him a hype job?

So I've seen Ben Whittaker's whole career and I was there at the fight and the performance didn't surprise me too much.

I think Matt Schumann has done a great job of giving Whittaker three guys that he could knock out, he could look good against.

So lots to get into.

Let's start off with Ben Whittaker against Connor Wallace.

They fought in a world title eliminator at the weekend and Ben Whittaker got the job done.

He won on points, quite a wide margin to be honest.

12 rounds, points decision, but that doesn't tell half the story.

When they finally do step up, they get found out.

They get outclassed.

I'm not saying that will happen to Ben Whittaker, but would you put him in with Demetri Bivol next? Probably not, but we'll get into that in a minute.

We're gonna recap, uh, UFC 332.

Ben Whittaker-

Yeah

... barely gets it done.

But, um, honestly s- some good talent in week nine.

Yeah.

And then, uh, also on Saturday we had Ben Whittaker-

Yeah

He could, he could, he could have, he- that could have fight could have gone a lot of different ways if it was made equal in efforts.

Or like, like for Ben Whittaker, like I'm just using a way different comparison.

Like he, he faltered down the, down the, down the line.

Haney got up every single time, right? He kept going.

Outspoken with White and Jordan.

The other night, co-feature to Ben Whittaker, Conor Wallace on Saturday.

Bilal Fawaz mounted a second straight defense of his British super weig- uh, super welterweight title in style against this man, Ethan James.

I saw the build-up to it.

My name is Matt Christie and we have got a special guest again this week.

We will be talking about Ben Whittaker.

We will be talking about Derek Chisora coming back.

We'll be talking about Floyd Mayweather potentially returning to fight Ryan Garcia.

I think it is definitely over the distance.

It's if you're tough, you've got a good engine on you, you can punch a bit, you can take a shot.

So I think, because you see some of the most talented lads, again, I know we'll get onto Ben Whittaker, but once you get into those deep rounds, it doesn't kind of, those amateur skills don't pay much.

So let's talk about the next steps for you, which was into journalism.