{"id":903794,"date":"2026-09-24T14:02:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T14:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/903794\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T14:02:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T14:02:18","slug":"michael-pirotton-aware-of-low-expectations-for-his-performance-against-johnny-fisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/903794\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Pirotton aware of low expectations for his performance against Johnny Fisher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Michael Pirotton heads into this weekend\u2019s heavyweight main event against Johnny Fisher largely as an unknown to fans, but insists his lack of notoriety doesn\u2019t make him incapable. And while Fisher will be the one getting the backing from the ringside fans and observers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/boxing\/news\/13591054\/michael-pirotton-vows-to-be-the-matador-when-he-fights-money-cow-johnny-fisher-at-the-copper-box-this-saturday\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pirotton tells Sky Sports<\/a> that he hopes to use the ambiguity to his advantage while also being at peace knowing all the pressure will be on his opponent to perform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cNobody knows about me. That\u2019s my only advantage,\u201d he continued. \u201cI know I\u2019m supposed to lose. In the scenario I\u2019m supposed to lose that fight. He\u2019s going to come full of confidence with his people and I know he\u2019s training hard. I have to be ready for whatever he brings. I\u2019m going to be ready. I\u2019m ready.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Pirotton goes on to say his journey to this point has been tough, and while he isn\u2019t going into this fight bragging and boasting about his ability, he\u2019s looking forward to celebrating his vindication immediately afterwards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Firmly believing Fisher doesn\u2019t have what it takes to knock him out, he\u2019ll be the one brimming with confidence inside the ring, and being that confident is going to allow Pirotton to feel free enough to unleash all of his own power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Pirotton heads into this weekend\u2019s heavyweight main event against Johnny Fisher largely as an unknown to fans,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,85],"class_list":["post-903794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903794","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=903794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}