{"id":656971,"date":"2026-06-25T05:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T05:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/656971\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T05:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T05:22:16","slug":"eddie-hearn-urges-johnny-fisher-to-accept-zuffa-boxing-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/656971\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn Urges Johnny Fisher To Accept Zuffa Boxing Offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=boxingnews24.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"display:flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center;&#010;            width:140px; height:40px; overflow:hidden;\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"208\" alt=\"Add EBoxing News 24as a preferred source on Google\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/google.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqLAgKIiZDQklTRmdnTWFoSUtFR0p2ZUdsdVoyNWxkM015TkM1amIyMG9BQVAB?ceid=US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"display:flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center;&#010;            width:140px; height:40px; overflow:hidden;\"><br \/>\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"128\" alt=\"Follow Boxing News 24 on Google News\" style=\"height:100%; width:auto; display:block;\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/follow-google-news.png\"\/><br \/>\n  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy offer was less than a sixth of what they offered,\u201d Hearn said to Pro Boxing Fans when asked about Fisher\u2019s future. \u201cWhen they announce the opponent, you\u2019ll see why I didn\u2019t match.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rather than attempting to keep Fisher, Hearn said he encouraged him to take the deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWalk, swim, or crawl to the Zuffa office as quickly as you can and sign that contract,\u201d said Hearn.<\/p>\n<p>Hearn suggested the level of opposition attached to the offer was one reason Matchroom could not justify matching it. He said the proposed bout simply did not have the commercial value needed to support that type of purse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the Zuffa offer was half of what it was, I wouldn\u2019t have matched,\u201d Hearn said.<\/p>\n<p>The Matchroom promoter insisted he holds no ill will toward Fisher for pursuing the opportunity and said the heavyweight should do what is best for his career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a brilliant opportunity for Johnny Fisher, and he\u2019s got to take that with both hands,\u201d Hearn said.<\/p>\n<p>Fisher fought last December, stopping Ivan Balaz in four rounds in Monte Carlo after suffering a fifth-round stoppage loss to Dave Allen in their rematch last May.<\/p>\n<p>Hearn indicated that Matchroom had different plans for the heavyweight\u2019s development, saying the fights Fisher wanted next were not events he could realistically headline under the company\u2019s business model.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the interview, Hearn briefly touched on the ongoing dispute involving Conor Benn and manager Keith Connolly, claiming a proposal included a $250,000 payment in exchange for no further criticism of Benn or his team. Hearn rejected the idea outright.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Youtube video\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" nopin=\"nopin\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782364936_689_hqdefault.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Olly Campbell is a boxing journalist who has covered the sport since 2014, providing ringside reporting and technical analysis of major bouts. His work focuses on fighter tendencies, tactical adjustments, and the details that shape high-level competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cMy offer was less than a sixth of what they offered,\u201d Hearn said to Pro Boxing Fans when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-656971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}