{"id":56193,"date":"2025-10-20T21:47:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T01:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/ben-whittaker-could-debut-in-the-us-in-2026-according-to-eddie-hearn\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T21:47:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T01:47:51","slug":"ben-whittaker-could-debut-in-the-us-in-2026-according-to-eddie-hearn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/boxing\/ben-whittaker-could-debut-in-the-us-in-2026-according-to-eddie-hearn\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Whittaker could debut in the US in 2026, according to Eddie Hearn"},"content":{"rendered":"Promoter Eddie Hearn has hinted that Ben Whittaker could make his debut in the United States early next year.\n\nWhittaker will face for the first time under Hearn&#8217;s Matchroom banner on November 29 against German Benjamin Gavazi in Birmingham, after signing with Boxxer.\n\nThe 28-year-old light heavyweight is considered a rising star in the sport and Hearn joked about the possibility of crossing the Atlantic next year at a pre-fight press conference on Friday.\n\nThe global mission also [for Whittaker], perhaps a bit of contact with the water in the United States in early 2026.\n\nWhittaker stated that the prospect of fighting all over the world was a key reason for his move to Matchroom.\n\nThat&#8217;s what excites me. At DAZN I have the opportunity to fight all over the world. I have global fans. I&#8217;ve been screaming for that opportunity and here we are.\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1017%2Fr1561505_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben Whittaker (left) will fight Benjamin Gavazi (right) on November 29.<\/a><\/p>\n\nDespite having only 10 fights in his career, the Olympic silver medalist attracts a large audience and has a massive following on social media.\n\nIn a display of Whittaker&#8217;s creative personality, his signing video for Matchroom was a parody of the &#8220;Show me the Money&#8221; scene from the movie &#8220;Jerry Maguire&#8221;.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We are looking to the future&#8230; Guys like Naseem Hamed, Chris Eubank Sr., Amir Khan. Those names are synonymous with British boxing and the man to my right [Whittaker] I think is the man to do it. A great self-promoter, a man who understands the marketing side of the sport. But also, more importantly to me, an elite boxer.<\/p><cite>Eddie Hearn<\/cite><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Promoter Eddie Hearn has hinted that Ben Whittaker could make his debut in the United States early next year. Whittaker will face for the first time under Hearn&#8217;s Matchroom banner on November 29 against German Benjamin Gavazi in Birmingham, after signing with Boxxer. The 28-year-old light heavyweight is considered a rising star in the sport [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[9826,205,2244,4052],"class_list":{"0":"post-56193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-boxing","7":"tag-ben-whittaker","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-eddie-hearn","10":"tag-matchroom"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}