{"id":487468,"date":"2025-10-10T04:56:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T04:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/487468\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T04:56:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T04:56:15","slug":"super-talented-ben-whittaker-has-added-substance-to-style-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/487468\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Super talented\u2019 Ben Whittaker has added substance to style this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;\">\u201cIt was me who actually reached out to him after the [first] Cameron fight [last October],\u201d revealed Lee, who also trains Joseph Parker, Hamzah Sheeraz, and Paddy Donovan in Dublin. \u201cI just saw the talent he had and said to myself, this guy is too good to let this happen \u2013 not let it go to waste, but not be guided right. A fighter like Ben just needs guidance. With me and him, it\u2019s more like Emanuel [Steward] with Wladimir [Klitschko]. It\u2019s more about what you do outside the ring. It\u2019s more about building a philosophy of approaching a fight. He\u2019s a pleasure to be around and we have spent a lot of time together, away from the gym as well as in the gym. I\u2019ll tell you the kind of person he is. He\u2019s the kind of person who flew to New York to support Hamzah [Sheeraz, in his fight against Edgar Berlanga] and flew to Belfast to support Paddy Donovan [in his rematch with Lewis Crocker].\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt was me who actually reached out to him after the [first] Cameron fight [last October],\u201d revealed Lee,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[13526,12924,1935,4496,4495,12434,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-487468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-andy-lee","9":"tag-ben-whittaker","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-boxing-news","12":"tag-boxingscene","13":"tag-eddie-hearn","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115348097216216880","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487468","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=487468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}