Ben Whittaker can decide his future when fighting Liam Cameron in their title match Heavenly.
When they first met in October last year Whittaker, the Silver Olympic Medal and the rapid professional star never intended to find himself overturned while he and Cameron both fell on the high rope.
The fall was ugly and the strong landing.
Whittaker had previously generated so many positive prints with his wonderful professional shows, liberally sprinkled with cavalier showboating. But with that fall, he collapsed in a completely new territory. The questions asked by him would injure the pride of every boxer. Should he have continued? Was he lucky to end with a draw?
Sunday’s remains in BP Pulse Live Arena in Birmingham is an opportunity for Whittaker to resolve those unexpected doubts.
“I think we’re starting from an empty canvas. It’s starting from again. When the round goes, it’s a whole new war, a completely different war. That’s what I’m excited to show,” he said Heavenly.
“Many people can speak this and this, but we will remain silent when we win.
“As he said, he hit the lottery, he has the second opportunity. We look at it like: You must have taken your moment then, because that moment will not come again.”
But Whittaker, in front of the supporters of his home, will be under strong control.
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Ben Whittaker and Liam Cameron went head -to -head after their public training and shared a cold face before the War on Easter Sunday.
“Those who change the rooms will be terrible for it,” Cameron said Heavenly. “It’s not good as it is. Never forget all this pressure on it.
“He has to beat me, he is decent to beat me. “
Whittaker was intended to blaze the British level on a quick route to the world class. But the loss to Cameron under these circumstances will divert that career into a completely different trajectory.
Andy Lee, too, The new Whittaker coach, had to admit: “A loss is catastrophic.
“A loss would be difficult to overcome, mentally as physically,” he continued. “He didn’t have to get this match. That shows the character he wanted this match.
“Cameron must be respected and if you do not respect it or do not appreciate the way he fights or considers it a threat, a war will go on that path against him. He is strong. He is aggressive and he is harsh and if you are not prepared for it, you will come unclear.”
Whittaker himself is refusing to think about loss.
“My mindset is not” my career in line, “he said. “I’m not sitting at home going,” I need to win this. “I know if the right I appear, I will win.”
For Whittaker, this war is to do more than break.
“No one wants to happen to happen, but I’m happy to happen in a sense where he turned me to the ground. He turned me into a position where I know me true,” he said.
“Now I’m just back to me, again in my boxing and that’s when the best will tell.
“That’s why I just got calm. I thought I didn’t need to say anything. They can talk if they want to talk. At the end of the day, the day of judgment will come soon.
“I just grow up. I think it’s doing me.”
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Whittaker added: “I’m not humbled. Simply based on a sense where there are many more things bigger than boxing. There are many more things bigger than my situation.
“With my life there were so many landing -the darkening and dark times, so something like that, I have had a worse if I am honest.
“I really believe that nothing can phase me again.”
Cameron has had a difficult road. He suffered a four -year -old boxing detention after testing positive for a recreational medicine. When he returned, only in 2023, he had weight to shed and personal issues to rest. He needed the opportunity when he came out against Whittaker and he used it.
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But Cameron still sees weakness in his opponent.
“He wants to blame everyone else, to stop himself. The day he blames himself is the day he will get better,” said Sheffield’s husband. “I think he should take responsibility that they tried to rush with me and he wasn’t that good night.
“Ben is a very deceived person, so he will blame everything else when, indeed, he’s just his boxing.”
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Ben Whittaker says he will pass the microphone in Liam Cameron after winning their war. The gloves are turned off are available to look completely now.
He does not believe Whittaker is as safe as it appears.
“I saw the last time. All this show is just to rest. That’s everything,” Cameron said.
“You rest because your opponent either pulls out of you and it enhances your trust. He needs to increase trust and his appearance.
“I was pushing the rhythm, but nothing about what I could have. War was early. That’s the sad thing about it.
“It will be difficult, is it not? He is not human if he does not torture it,” Cameron added. “I’m looking for him to explode in four rounds and simply attract it absolutely.”
But Whittaker can still include shows in his attempts on Sunday if he wants to display the full set of his talents.
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Ben Whittaker jokingly threatened Liam Cameron with an egg during ‘gloves are turned off’ – but you will need to tune to see if the two shake hands!
“It opens up a lot of doors, it opens up many opportunities,” he said about Cameron’s expected attack in the war.
“It depends on how he comes. If he comes a hundred miles per hour, beautiful and light. If he comes in the box, beautiful and light because you can’t even boxing me. So it depends on how he tries to play it, but we have answers to everything.
“I have a plan A, a plan B and a plan C, it just depends on how I feel at the moment.
“I think you’ll get the full repertoire.”
However, Cameron promises to be unyielding in this war. “He is lying if he said he was easily taking me. Definitely lied,” he told Whittaker. “The case came to him. He was not going on his way.
“I know this is bad to say, but I am one of those warriors who will fight to death. I can say this to myself. We will soon discover (for him) in the match. I always have that advantage because I know I will not rest and he will seek a way out, it has been proven in his record.
“If I can just win another boxing fight and lose everyone else, it will be this.
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Ben Whittaker says he is ‘counting weeks’ in his second war against Liam Cameron, ready to tell him what he can do.
Whittaker knows that the irrefutable answer to Cameron would be simply to win yourself.
“He is going and saying these things, he has sat down a great war, he has sat down with another fight for money and keeps his career alive,” Whittaker said.
“Just win and go on. That’s the mentality I have received,” he continued. “Ten years down in my career, when I did what I have to do, we will not see this war.
“I have raised the way I am presented, I have done the right things, he got the lucky draw from it and he has received the biggest title (war) now. So play right for him. These things happen. But we will have to stop him on Sunday.”
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