The breathtaking Brit is backmost successful Saudi Arabia for the archetypal clip since 2022
- Tom Sheen, Head of Sport SEO
- Published: 12:04, 3 Oct 2024
- Updated: 12:04, 3 Oct 2024
BEN WHITTAKER returns to the ringing for 4th clip this twelvemonth with The Surgeon facing the toughest trial of his career.
The Olympic metallic medallist, 27, is facing Liam Cameron - erstwhile a imaginable himself earlier a drugs prohibition took 5 years disconnected his career.
Cameron, 33, pushed erstwhile satellite rubric contender Lyndon Arthur to a adjacent determination successful June, with galore believing helium won that fight.
Now helium faces Whittaker, the fans' favourite and societal media prima who is looking to proceed his march up the light-heavyweight rankings.
When is Ben Whittaker vs Liam Cameron?
- Whittaker vs Cameron takes spot connected Saturday, October 12.
- The fight is connected the undercard of the Dimitry Bivol vs Artur Beterbiev mega-fight.
- It volition instrumentality spot successful Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, successful beforehand of an expected 30,000 fans astatine the Kingdom Arena.
- The combat volition beryllium 10 rounds with the ringing locomotion expected astatine astir 7.30pm (10.30pm local).
What TV transmission is Ben Whittaker vs Liam Cameron connected and tin it beryllium unrecorded streamed?
- The gathering is the 2nd combat connected the Riyadh Season card, which volition beryllium a pay-per-view event.
- DAZN and TNT Sports person confirmed they volition connection the PPV astatine £19.99.
- Sky Sports besides person the rights but are yet to denote a price.
- UK viewers tin besides unrecorded watercourse it connected the DAZN and Sky Sports apps and Discovery+.
- In the US, the undercard is disposable connected ESPN+ for $14.99 - the main lawsuit volition beryllium free.
- Alternatively, SunSport volition bring you each the enactment arsenic it happens with our LIVE BLOG.
What is the afloat card?
- Artur Beterbiev vs Dmitry Bivol (for IBF, WBC, WBO and WBA airy heavyweight titles)
- Chris Eubank Jr vs Kamil Szeremeta
- Fabio Wardley vs Frazer Clarke (for British heavyweight title)
- Jai Opetaia vs Jack Massey (for IBF cruiserweight title)
- Ben Whittaker vs Liam Cameron
- Skye Nicolson vs Raven Chapman (for WBC women's featherweight title)
- Mohammaed Alakel vs Jesus Gonzalez
What's been said?
Whittaker said: "If I'm the existent woody I'll marque it look easy, if I'm not, I'll marque it look hard.
"If you're a existent combatant you volition woody with it good nether unit and erstwhile the unit is connected I emotion it the most."
Cameron said: "I cognize however bully I am. I'm not a mug, bash you cognize what I mean?
"Do you cognize erstwhile you spar casual radical and you cognize it's casual and you tin bash what you want?
"When you spar hard kids, you person to beryllium connected your ball, and this is 1 of them [for Whittaker].
"You tin bash each this s***. I'm not saying he's not going to bash it with maine - I don't cognize - but you’ve got to person a spot much astir you, too. It's not that easy.
"That feline helium fought who’s connected his item reel [Khalid Graidia], he’s a 42-year-old fella.
"Lost astir each combat and been stopped astir 3 times, and he's tiny for the weight.
“When I watched [Whittaker], it really made maine laugh. But I don't truly privation to disrespect him."