Comments Thread For: Talented Ben Whittaker well-prepared in his bid to put on a show in Saudi Arabia

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Ben Whittaker has always managed to make himself the center of attention. On October 12, the unbeaten 27-year-old light heavyweight will get to display his wares in front of the world when he fights Liam Cameron on the undercard of the undisputed 175lbs title fight between Artur Beterbiev and Dmitrii Bivol in Saudi Arabia.
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[Oldskoolg]

Best of luck to Ben, what an entertainer

[PNUT901]

I like watching this guy , he's fun and always trying to put hurt on his opponents. If only he had a little more power. He should get pretty far with the overall package of skills that he possesses , he's going to be having a title before too long.

[1Eriugenus]

I dislike watching Whittaker intensely. If he is going to showboat he should step up the quality of his opposition now. He loves to humiliate & denigrate his opponents but the man won't fight Lyndon Arthur, Dan Azeez, Craig Richards or even Shakan Pitters. Humiliating journeymen is an unedifying spectacle. Right now, he is no 'Prince Naseem', he is more like Prince Andrew who is also a cowardly bully.

[DClefthook]

I dislike watching Whittaker intensely. If he is going to showboat he should step up the quality of his opposition now. He loves to humiliate & denigrate his opponents but the man won't fight Lyndon Arthur, Dan Azeez, Craig Richards or even Shakan Pitters. Humiliating journeymen is an unedifying spectacle. Right now, he is no 'Prince Naseem', he is more like Prince Andrew who is also a cowardly bully.

I'm asking this as an American who watched the whole "Prince Naseem to America' situation play out. I remember watching Prince on Tv embarrass guys over in the UK. We were anticipating this guy crossing the pond to fight one of ours. The build up to Prince vs Kelly was epic and so was the fight. But that leads me to ask why is Whittaker hated so much over there wneh Prince did the same exact thing to inferior fighters? Just asking.

[DClefthook]

I would love to see this guy fight here in the States. Sign with PBC and have Benevidez, Morrell and Whittaker in a tournament for LHW supremacy. PBC....hahaha that ought to piss you Brits off hhahahha

[Jack_sh*t]

he is more like Prince Andrew who is also a cowardly bully.

You misspelled 'Nonce.'

[PNUT901]

I dislike watching Whittaker intensely. If he is going to showboat he should step up the quality of his opposition now. He loves to humiliate & denigrate his opponents but the man won't fight Lyndon Arthur, Dan Azeez, Craig Richards or even Shakan Pitters. Humiliating journeymen is an unedifying spectacle. Right now, he is no 'Prince Naseem', he is more like Prince Andrew who is also a cowardly bully.

He's only got 8 pro fights , give him a minute.

[1Eriugenus]

DCLeftHook. I think I said this before but I'm happy to repeat it. I remember in 1994 Naz fought Vincenzo Belcastro. Naz was 18 or 19 & Belcastro was European champion, an enormously respected fighter & I believe he had fought for a world title. Everyone, I mean without exception everyone in British boxing said it was far too soon for Naz & a lot of people said Brendan Ingle should be ashamed for feeding a young kid to a wolf. I remember watching Naz completely outclass Belcastro. At the time I thought, 'this is by far & away the most talented Brtish boxer I've ever seen, he will be the British SRR'. Towards the end of the bout Naz really started showboating & the commentator, Reg Gutteridge, was disgusted & kept saying 'there is no need for that. He's a wonderful talent but I wish he wouldn't disrespect his opponent'. I don't remember the odds but I'm sure Belcastro would've been at least 6:4 on favourite. From then on in Naz fought world class opponents. I don't think he necessarily gets enough credit: Polo-Perez, Robinson, Medina, Johnson, Hardy, Cabrera, Kelley, McCullough, Vazquez... he literally cleaned out the 126 division & was completely dominant until he ran into Barrera.

In other words, no-one expected Naseem's opponents to be inferior until Naz turned out to be so good. By contrast, I can tell you that Whittaker's opponents are inferior because they are so bad. It is a ludicrous comparison.

[1Eriugenus]

Jack_**** 'I'm not going there, Bro, do you think I wanna get sued by some MoFo?'