Ben Whittaker gave Ezra Arenyeka a sharp warning before the match: “Be careful what you wish for!” | “He’s so slow, I can make tea while I wait”
In the tense election atmosphere before the war, Ben Whittaker did not refrain from sending a clear message to his opponent Ezra Arenyeka. Meanwhile, the fight between Chris Billam-Smith and Richard Riakporhe will take place at Selhurst Park, live on Sky Sports on Saturday, where Whittaker will also be in the ring.
The final confrontation between Whittaker and Arenyeka during fight week proved
to be straight-up exchanges, reflecting the heat with which both fighters displayed throughout the press conference. Whittaker, an Olympic silver medalist and known for his excellent boxing skills, decided to give Arenyeka, a little-known boxer with a 12-0 (10 KO) record, a chance to prove himself. show yourself on June 15.
“He walked in this door by himself screaming,” Whittaker said. “This is probably the only time I’ve agreed to a match like this, because you can’t keep looking for an opportunity without working for it.”
Whittaker plans to teach Arenyeka a lesson in the ring: “Be careful what yo
u ask for. If I go out there and do what I can, it will be a big statement.”
At the sixth weigh-in, when Arenyeka rushed toward him, Whittaker wa
s not ready to react strongly. “I can stand there and fight if I need to, move and punch if I need to, or do a combination of both,” he said. “He can only do one job, and if he tries to fight to defeat me, that’s even worse. His plan is to Jade at me and hope for the best.” “
Whittaker also emphasized his confident power and ability to juggle defense and powerful punches, using his skill and punching intelligence to guide opponents into punching they wouldn’t otherwise. could have seen. “Once you have that, you can direct them to create hits that they can’t even find,” Whittaker asserts.