![]() ![]() "Where as a professional you kind of get praised if you do it now. There's been no one there other than my corner team and those judges didn't like it and those referees used to tell me not to do it," Whittaker said. Going to these amateur tournaments, I've been doing that for years now. "A lot of people really bought into the entertainment part of it and that's what I love. His early showboating certainly had the crowd in Bournemouth engaged. When someone comes to fight, they can walk onto shots and that's why I liked it." So he was there to try and cause an upset. "He tried to hit me on the break and stuff like that. Image: Whittaker celebrates his debut victory (Photo: Lawrence Lustig/BOXXER) It's not like he just wanted to tuck up and just get through it. "Of course he was a journeyman but he had a 50-50 record and he actually came to win. O'Neill had tried to rattle Whittaker, stepping into him in their face-off after weighing in the day before and looking to roughhouse the Olympic silver medallist in the fight. So after 12 months, 18 months, it'll be good to see where we actually are at." We've only had six, seven weeks together and I'm doing that already. "The shot that we worked on in the changing room was the actual shot that knocked him out so was buzzing," Whittaker said. The punch itself was exactly what he and Steward had practised in the warm-up for the fight. I thought it was the perfect way to start and hopefully I can carry that on through my career." "With people watching and all the hype and stuff, 'Can he punch, can he this and that?'.
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