Shocking moment Ben Whittaker attacked with headbutt and elbow as he outclasses furious opponent

BEN WHITTAKER was attacked with a headbutt and elbow but still managed to win a boring one-sided fight.

The talented 27-year-old Olympic silver medalist was repeatedly assaulted by light heavyweight underdog Ezra Arenyeka, who was rightly deducted a point for his foul.

Ben Whittaker clashed with Ezra Arenyeka for the IBF International Light-Heavyweight titleCredit: REUTERS

Olympian Whittaker was too skillful and cunning for the NigerianCredit: REUTERS

Arenyeka lost her composure after the sixth round and headbutted Whittaker in the jaw.Credit: SKY SPORTS

But the fight at Selhurst Park got a bit stinky as it was one-way traffic, with the British ace unable or unwilling to push for a stoppage before the judges called it: 100- 89, 99-90 and 99-90. .

Arenyeka, 28, looked the part with nice muscles and sparkly shorts, but he was vastly outmatched and little more than a human punching bag.

by Whittaker pink the gloves peppered him from all sorts of angles and nothing the Nigerian returned came close to landing.

The last 30 seconds turned into a grinding dance, with the two pretty boys doing their best strictly auditioning.

The Baggies showboater spent more time looking at the freezing crowd than his opponent in the second but the action dried up with the rain.

Arenyeka imagined his chances more in the third, throw haymakers in the vague direction of Whittaker and grabbing him in an attempt to keep the sleeper upright struggle manual.

Whittaker grazed his designer goatee in the fifth when Arenyeka lost fear of his punches and threw everything at him.

On the sixth lap, as the tricks and flicks became tedious, Arenyeka accidentally kicked him in the back, but it was a kick he needed as he spun around the low gears.

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Ezra Arenyeka then had a point deducted for elbowing Ben Whittaker.Credit: GETTY

And Whittaker got the shock of his life when he tried to taunt his opponent by taking him back to his stand at the bell and received a headbutt for his trouble.

Arenyeka lost a point in the seventh when he added an elbow to his headbutt routine, but by then the crowd had long lost interest.

Post-fight interview between Chris Billam-Smith and Richard Riakporhe

Arenyeka threw a hook so wild in the ninth round that it did a full 360-degree spin and fans must have imagined the same move at the turnstiles when the one-sided spar went sour.