{"id":57118,"date":"2025-10-21T22:46:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T02:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/whittaker-eyes-us-debut-in-2026-hearn-plans-global-incursion-3\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T22:46:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T02:46:01","slug":"whittaker-eyes-us-debut-in-2026-hearn-plans-global-incursion-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/boxing\/whittaker-eyes-us-debut-in-2026-hearn-plans-global-incursion-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Whittaker eyes US debut in 2026: Hearn plans global incursion"},"content":{"rendered":"Promoter Eddie Hearn has hinted that Ben Whittaker could debut in the United States early next year. The young boxer, considered a rising star, signed with Matchroom and will fight for the first time under this promoter on November 29 against German Benjamin Gavazi in Birmingham.\n\nHearn has revealed that there is a possibility that Whittaker will cross the Atlantic to fight on US soil in early 2026, although the UK will remain his main base.\n\nThe global mission also [for Whittaker], perhaps a little in the United States in early 2026.\n\nWhittaker, for his part, has expressed that the opportunity to fight around the world was a key factor in joining Matchroom, highlighting his enthusiasm for having fans globally.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>That&#8217;s what excites me. With DAZN I have the opportunity to fight all over the world.<\/p><cite>Ben Whittaker<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1017%2Fr1561505_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Ben Whittaker (izquierda) pelear\u00e1 contra Benjamin Gavazi (derecha) el 29 de noviembre.\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Ben Whittaker (izquierda) pelear\u00e1 contra Benjamin Gavazi (derecha) el 29 de noviembre.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nDespite having only ten fights in his career, the Olympic silver medalist has a large number of followers on social media.\n\nWhittaker&#8217;s presentation with Matchroom was a parody of the &#8220;Show me the Money&#8221; scene from the movie &#8220;Jerry Maguire&#8221;, demonstrating his creative personality.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We are looking to the future&#8230; Those guys like Naseem Hamed, Chris Eubank Sr., Amir Khan. Those names that are synonymous with British boxing and the man on my right [Whittaker] I think is the one to do it.<\/p><cite>Eddie Hearn<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nHearn describes Whittaker as a great self-promoter and an elite boxer who understands the marketing side of the sport.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Promoter Eddie Hearn has hinted that Ben Whittaker could debut in the United States early next year. The young boxer, considered a rising star, signed with Matchroom and will fight for the first time under this promoter on November 29 against German Benjamin Gavazi in Birmingham. Hearn has revealed that there is a possibility that [&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-57118","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\/57118","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=57118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}