Having lit up Brooklyn in June, former Olympic silver medalist Ben Whittaker boxes in Birmingham on Saturday, October 3.<\/p>\n
Whittaker, who defeated Richard Rivera in two rounds at the Barclays Center on the Xander Zayas-Jaron Ennis bill, is now 12-0-1 (9 KOs) and the Midlands star, who is trained by Irishman Andy Lee, has been matched with Conor Wallace, an Englishman who fights out of Australia.<\/p>\n
Wallace is a 30-year-old southpaw and, at 6ft 3 1\/2ins, is half-an-inch taller than Whittaker.<\/p>\n
His only outing of the year came when he faced Walter Gabriel Sequeira in an eight-rounder.<\/p>\n
He is rated No. 2 by the IBF (the top spot is vacant), and No. 5 by the WBO.<\/p>\n
Whittaker is No. 3 with the IBF, sits at two with the WBC and eight with the WBO.<\/p>\n
The match is headed to the Utilita Arena in Birmingham, a homecoming for Whittaker, the 29-year-old \u201cSurgeon\u201d who promoter Eddie Hearn has said is a couple of fights away from being ready for a world title. Whittaker-Wallace, however, is a final eliminator for the IBF belt held by Dmitry Bivol, who is also promoted by Matchroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having lit up Brooklyn in June, former Olympic silver medalist Ben Whittaker boxes in Birmingham on Saturday, October…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1101886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4108],"tags":[12924,1935,4496,4495,70036,79,16,15],"class_list":["post-1101885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-ben-whittaker","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-conor-wallace","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116956020399885060","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1101885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1101886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1101885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1101885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1101885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}