Commentator Spencer Oliver says mild heavyweight contender Ben Whittaker should present X-rays to show that he was injured throughout his fall outdoors of the ring within the fifth spherical of his struggle in opposition to Liam Cameron final Saturday evening on the Kingdom Area in Riyadh.
Oliver feels that Whittaker received uncovered, and lots of followers imagine he flat-out stop to keep away from getting knocked out by the 33-year-old Cameron.
Whittaker (8-0-1, 5 KOs) couldn’t proceed the struggle, which was going badly for him when he tumbled out of the ring. He needed to be taken out of the sector in a wheelchair. He reportedly suffered an ankle sprain within the fall.
The struggle had been going badly for the 2020 Olympic silver medalist Whittaker for the reason that third when he began getting hit rather a lot by the heavy-handed Cameron (23-6-1, 10 KOs), who wasn’t anticipated to be to be aggressive.
Within the fifth spherical, Whittaker appeared to carry onto Cameron and lean on him when the 2 have been in opposition to the ropes, which despatched each fighters tumbling outdoors of the ring. Whitaker stayed down and couldn’t proceed preventing. The match went to the scorecards with the judges scoring it:
– 58-57 – Cameron
– 58-57 – Whittaker
– 58-58
“I mentioned, ‘We have to see the X-rays,’” mentioned Spencer Oliver to talkSport Boxing about eager to see the X-rays of Ben Whittaker’s injured ankle. “On the floor of it, he may have swallowed. He was uncovered in some ways on that evening. It began going horribly unsuitable for him, and also you thought, ‘The place is that technical skill to show it again round?’
“Ben Whittaker wants to point out the proof, the X-rays, to point out that he truly has [an injury]. If he doesn’t do this, it’s going to be an enormous jury out. We have been speaking about him being a famous person. He had every little thing it took outdoors of the ring, contained in the ring.”
Whittaker ought to have already proven an X-ray or produced a health care provider’s be aware to verify his ankle harm in order that followers wouldn’t have doubts.
“Cameron was successful the struggle. I feel Ben received away actually calmly with the rating. Was he uncovered, and did he swallow it? He kind of unraveled actually rapidly. He received dragged right into a canine struggle. Within the fifth spherical, after they have been in opposition to the ropes, it was like a WWE. He pulled him out of the ring,” mentioned Oliver.
Clearly, there’s going to should be a rematch as a result of Whittaker can’t stroll away from this struggle with out displaying that he can beat this man.
