Johnny Fisher has turn out to be the most recent fighter to hitch Zuffa Boxing, splitting from Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom to signal with the rival promotion.
Fisher has a cult following in London and Essex, and he had turn out to be one in every of Hearn’s largest stars over the past three years, helped partially by the attain of his father “Huge John”, a social-media sensation.
Fisher’s recognition has are available in spit of his patchy current kind, nevertheless. The 27-year-old received a controversial choice over Dave Allen in late 2024, earlier than struggling a fifth-round stoppage of their rematch final Could, and even his comeback win – a fourth-round TKO of Ivan Balaz in December – noticed Fisher damage within the first spherical.
Maybe Zuffa is attempting to capitalise on Fisher’s recognition, in any case, or possibly this signing is one other try and get one up on Matchroom.
After Zuffa launched in January, it signed Matchroom’s longtime fighter Conor Benn in February, with the British welterweight leaving Hearn regardless of the promoter’s help over a two-year saga that stemmed from Benn failing two drug exams.
The change got here days after Zuffa boss Dana White, who additionally serves on the president and CEO of mixed-martial-arts behemoth the UFC, had launched his newest verbal assault on Hearn.
Dangerous blood between American White, 54, and Hearn, 47, has continued to movement since then. The pair, who had been previously pleasant, have even publicly mentioned boxing one another.
Of Fisher’s Zuffa transfer, Hearn stated: “It’s wonderful, and I’m so joyful for him, as a result of it’s a [one-]battle [deal] that may go and pay a mortgage.”
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However he additionally informed TalkSport: “Johnny Fisher – rightfully so, by the way in which, as a result of he’s had a defeat – needs to have opposition that he can be aggressive with. He needs low-level fights to get in a little bit of a swing – two, three fights like that. For me, I can’t ship that product for [broadcaster] DAZN, since you’d snigger it out of city.”
