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Ben Whittaker changed before his rematch with Liam Cameron.

After an extraordinary fall, in which both fighters dropped out of the ring, their first fight ended in the disputed drawing of a technical decision.

They will live in Birmingham on Sunday Sky SportsAnd Whittaker will have a new coach in his corner.

Former WBO World Champion and well-respected professional coach Andy Lee is now working with an Olympic silver medal.

“I just saw a fighter who was immensely talented, who needed guidelines, structure,” Lee said Sky Sports. “Behind all persons is a very humble, honest, determined young man.

“Talent like Ben needs mentoring. He needs to direct, it is necessary to run, and so I thought it would be a travesty to see such a fighter like this loss or not reaching its potential because of the lack of real training.”

It will be an intense opportunity under pressure, a cover at BP Pulse Live Arena in Rungeo with high roles, especially for the first fight in a new partnership with boxes.

“Trust and relates are being built over time. We don’t have that luxury of time,” Lee said. “But a lot of conversations are done during the training camp.

“You have to communicate, know what makes them ticks and how they think.”

Whittaker added: “I don’t see any ceiling about how good he is. I think he’s a potentially world champion. I don’t want to cross the top, but according to what I see in the gym, so exciting to watch, watch such pleasure and can do almost everything he wants in sports.

“But you have to go through the steps and earn them. It is not only given because you are talented. You have to work for it and make money.”

Whittaker, at the beginning of his professional career, is previously inclined to make titles with his frequent spectacular showboits.

Although he was strongly criticized after drawing with Cameron. “It’s the nature of the world we live in today,” Lee said, “but it’s a good lesson for him, because he had those incredible peak viruses with all showboard clips, and now he had the opposite with criticism from every corner of the world.

“It is probably a great lesson for him as a fighter, but also as a human being to take everything with a pinch of salt, high and lowest places, praise and criticism.

“One day you are a hero, and you are the next day.”

It is a mandatory fight for Whittaker. But entering Cameron’s rematch, Lee believes his own reputation is in danger.

“We are together anyway. My reputation and his reputation are in line. We both work hard to win,” he said.

“I’ll put it all for Ben. I brought him back to the end.”

Why Lee?

Andy Lee initially reached for Whittaker after watching the first fight with Cameron.

“I always wanted a change. I knew it would come,” Whittaker said Sky Sports. “I always wanted to change, but it was only when.”

Lee’s appeal as his coach was clear Whittaker. “He’s a person I always looked at in boxing. He did what I want to achieve, he’s a world champion,” he said.

“He himself produced the champions, he is the champion himself.”

Whittaker moved his training camp to Dublin to work with Lee.

“You cut distractions and it’s just about fun and work while doing it,” he said.

“I love every minute of that, I am learning and we are a good combination.”

View the rematch Ben Whittaker vs Liam Cameron on Sunday live Sky Sports.