As it turned out, Suarez did the complete opposite of what he promised. Instead of derailing Whittaker, or silencing the noise around him, all he did, by collapsing to the canvas following a right hand in round one, was crank up the volume and volunteer his image for Whittaker’s ever-growing highlight reel. Rather than end Whittaker’s hype, or his journey, he simply fanned the flames. He added to it. He went down so quickly that Whittaker’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, was on the brink of exploding in the ring after the fight. “What you are seeing is the evolution of the next true British great superstar of boxing in Ben Whittaker,” he said on DAZN. “Some might like it; some might not like it. Tough. You’ve got to get used to it. Because I watch him walk to the ring and I’m thinking, Superstar, superstar, superstar. He’s got the swag, and it’s almost annoying how slick and cool he is.”
Ben Whittaker and the ‘evolution of the next true British great superstar of boxing’
