In the Style

My mum wanted me to be a ballet dancer, but boxing called for me; Ben Whittaker describes the evolution of his fighting style, how new trainer SugarHill ...

"That's the type of fighter I think I am. They wouldn't fight me because there's nothing on the line," he said. "Whoever had the title, I would have called them out." "The domestic level's really good, you've got him, Buatsi, Yarde, there's so many names to tick off the list, it's a good time." I just called out Dan [Azeez] because he had the title." "Truthfully, it wasn't what he did in that [second Deontay Wilder] fight, it was the way he talked. So he wants to get that part of Tommy Hearns in me," Whittaker said. "He said when he'd seen Tyson Fury's style, it's a bit like mine, it's a bit weird, unorthodox, but then look what he did to it. "The part of Tommy Hearns where sometimes he goes 'alright', stands there, hurts them, that's what the fans want to see. That element, the Kronk way, Whittaker wants to add to his style. I was stomping out the room," he laughed. And he's been around people like Adonis Stevenson, the Furys, even back in the day at his old gym [the famous Kronk] he's been around Tommy Hearns," Whittaker said.