{"id":799464,"date":"2026-07-14T09:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T09:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/799464\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T09:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T09:59:13","slug":"dana-white-poaches-johnny-fisher-from-rival-eddie-hearn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/799464\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White poaches Johnny Fisher from rival Eddie Hearn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/search\/gallery-fighter?q=dana+white\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Dana White;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Dana White&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Dana White<\/a>\u2019s Zuffa Boxing has signed British heavyweight Johnny Fisher, who is set to headline Zuffa Boxing 11 at Copper Box Arena in London on Sept. 26.<\/p>\n<p>Fisher\u2019s former promoter, Eddie Hearn, has now explained how the boxer\u2019s decision to join Zuffa Boxing came down to more than just a better payday.<\/p>\n<p>Eddie Hearn explains Johnny Fisher\u2019s decision to join Zuffa Boxing<\/p>\n<p>Fisher (14-1, 12 KOs) has left Matchroom Boxing after five years to join White\u2019s Zuffa Boxing, marking a monumental change in his career. Hearn dissected Fisher\u2019s move in an interview with talkSPORT Boxing.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the move was influenced by Fisher\u2019s desire for more manageable opponents following his first professional defeat. Hearn claimed that those types of matchups did not fit the Matchroom Boxing or DAZN product.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I headlined a show for Johnny Fisher against the guys he\u2019s going to be fighting, I would be ridiculed,\u201d Hearn said. \u201cBut you would be prepared to pay for a fight that he will be in because the fight that he is in is not good enough for my product, for DAZN\u2019s product, to put bums on seats, to make people engage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zuffa Boxing 11 marks the promotion\u2019s return to the United Kingdom after it previously put on an event in Bournemouth in June. Fisher\u2019s opponent has not been announced yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dana White\u2019s Zuffa Boxing has signed British heavyweight Johnny Fisher, who is set to headline Zuffa Boxing 11&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,9915,65798,51802,9916,85,114155],"class_list":["post-799464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-eddie-hearn","tag-fisher","tag-johnny-fisher","tag-matchroom-boxing","tag-sports","tag-zuffa-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799464","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=799464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}