Johnny Fisher has announced he is a promotional free agent.<\/p>\n
Fisher had been signed to Eddie Hearn\u2019s Matchroom Boxing, where he enjoyed a fruitful spell topping bills at London\u2019s Copperbox Arena and became one of the biggest ticket sellers in the UK. <\/p>\n
But his career took a hit when he was topped by Dave Allen last May. <\/p>\n
Since then, Fisher has fought once, a fourth-round stoppage of Ivan Balaz in December where he failed to impress. The 27-year-old was offered a British heavyweight title shot on the undercard of Tyson Fury\u2019s return to the ring against Arslanbek Makhmudov in May, but rejected the fight.<\/p>\n
In an interview with International Boxing News\u2019 Regan Slaymaker, Fisher revealed that his negotiation period with Matchroom has come to an end and he is open to talking to other promoters. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m now at a really important part of my career, I\u2019m negotiating my deal with Eddie Hearn as we speak, but I\u2019m also in a position when I can hear people at the same time. I can see what’s out there and get the best value for me in terms of promotional stuff and who is going to push me the furthest.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fisher also remains in talks with Matchroom over a new deal.<\/p>\n
\u201cI met with Eddie last week and told him everything about this, I\u2019m in a position now where we are at the end of our negotiation period and it opens it up to a broader sphere and all the different promotional companies out there. <\/p>\n
“Obviously I\u2019ve had some great nights under the Matchroom banner and we\u2019re still working towards getting a deal done, but I am in a position where I can hear from other people as well. I\u2019d be a fool not to see what my market value is. I\u2019ve got to see how what Eddie is offering stacks up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Johnny Fisher has announced he is a promotional free agent. Fisher had been signed to Eddie Hearn\u2019s Matchroom…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,6653,51802,9916,85],"class_list":["post-741693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-johnny-fisher","tag-matchroom-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}