(August 19th) Zuffa Boxing 11 will bring a major night of professional boxing to London’s Copper Box Arena on Saturday, September 26, with British heavyweight favorite Johnny “The Romford Bull” Fisher making his promotional debut against Belgium’s Michael “Bomaye” Pirotton in a scheduled 10-round heavyweight main event. The event will be broadcast live on Sky Sports in the United Kingdom and Ireland, with Zuffa Boxing’s U.S. and Canadian distribution carried by Paramount+. Sky Sports officially confirmed Pirotton as Fisher’s opponent on August 19, completing the headline matchup for Zuffa Boxing’s return to London.

Fisher enters the contest with a 14–1 professional record and 12 knockouts and will make his first appearance under the Zuffa Boxing banner. The 27-year-old Essex heavyweight has already established a formidable following in London and will make his third appearance at the Copper Box Arena, the site of his explosive 2024 stoppage of Alen Babić. Fisher’s only professional defeat came in his May 2025 rematch with Dave Allen, when he was stopped in the fifth round after being dropped twice. He answered that setback in emphatic fashion on December 6, 2025, overcoming an early scare before dropping Ivan Baláž three times in the fourth round and forcing the stoppage.

Fisher’s return to the Copper Box therefore represents both a homecoming and the beginning of a new promotional chapter. Following the Allen defeat, he moved into a new training relationship with Tony Sims and subsequently returned to winning form against Baláž. Fisher has made no secret of his ambition to move toward major championship opportunities, and the Pirotton fight gives him an opportunity to build momentum on a prominent Sky Sports platform while attempting to establish himself as one of the leading British heavyweights of the next generation. Fisher has also made clear that he wants more than simply another victory, saying he believes his power and finishing instincts can produce the first stoppage loss of Pirotton’s career.

Pirotton, a Belgian heavyweight from Liège, brings a 12–2 record with six knockouts into the main event. He turned professional in 2019 and won his first 10 contests before suffering consecutive unanimous-decision defeats in 2025, first to Poland’s Piotr Łącz in the WBC Heavyweight Boxing Grand Prix in Riyadh and later to South Africa’s Juan Alberts over eight rounds. Both setbacks came on the scorecards rather than by stoppage. The WBC had previously selected Pirotton as Belgium’s representative in the heavyweight field of its inaugural Boxing Grand Prix, underlining the international experience he has accumulated despite remaining a relatively low-profile name to British audiences.

The Belgian rebounded in 2026 and has restored his winning momentum with two stoppage victories. The first came on May 30 against Venezuela’s Fernando Brito, whom Pirotton stopped in the fifth round. Contemporary records list Pirotton at 11–2 with five knockouts following that victory; his subsequent stoppage win moved him to the officially announced 12–2, six-knockout mark that he carries into the Fisher fight.

Pirotton’s durability is another notable element of the matchup. Sky Sports reports that he has never previously been knocked down, a distinction Fisher will be attempting to change when the two heavyweights meet. Pirotton’s professional career has included victories over Rashad Coulter and Walter Burns, with his stoppage of Burns in 2023 standing among his more notable early wins. His 2025 defeats to Łącz and Alberts were both by decision, meaning that none of his 14 professional contests has ended with Pirotton being stopped.

The chief support will feature another significant light-heavyweight matchup as London’s Craig “Spider” Richards faces Radivoje “Hot Rod” Kalajdzic in a scheduled 10-round contest at 175 pounds. Richards enters with a 20–4–1 record and 13 knockouts, while American-based Serbian-born veteran Kalajdzic is 30–3 with 22 knockouts. The matchup pits Richards’ technical boxing and experience against the proven power and resilience of Kalajdzic, making the fight one of the card’s most intriguing crossroads contests. Sky Sports has confirmed the bout as the 10-round co-main event.

Richards arrives in London on the back of one of the biggest wins of his recent career. On December 20, 2025, he stopped fellow British light heavyweight Dan Azeez with a left hook at 23 seconds of the 12th round in Accra, Ghana, capturing the vacant IBF International light-heavyweight title. The victory extended Richards’ winning streak and provided an important rebound after his 2024 unanimous-decision defeat to Willy Hutchinson. Richards is a former British champion and a 2021 world-title challenger who went the distance with Dmitry Bivol during his bid for the WBA light-heavyweight championship.

Kalajdzic, meanwhile, brings significant knockout power and perhaps the most dramatic recent victory on the entire card. At Zuffa Boxing 2 on February 1, 2026, he recovered from being knocked down twice by former world champion Oleksandr Gvozdyk and was trailing on all three scorecards before detonating a seventh-round straight right that stopped the Ukrainian. The comeback victory improved Kalajdzic to 30–3 with 22 knockouts and established him as one of the most dangerous punchers in the Zuffa Boxing light-heavyweight picture.

The undercard also features a 10-round middleweight clash between Lee Cutler and Louis Greene. Cutler enters at 16–2 with eight knockouts, while Greene brings a 19–4 record with 12 knockouts. The contest adds another matchup between established British professionals to a card increasingly built around competitive domestic and international pairings. Sky Sports has confirmed the fight as part of the September 26 lineup.

Full Card

Heavyweights: Johnny Fisher vs. Michael Pirotton -10rds

Light heavyweights: Craig Richards vs. Radivoje “Hot Rod” Kalajdzic -10rds

Middleweights: Lee Cutler vs. Louis Greene - 10rds

Welterweights: Alex MacMillan vs. TBA —6rds

Light heavyweights: Leon Hughes vs. TBA - 6rds

Lightweights: Kayla Allen pro debut vs. TBA

Lightweights: Fred Pullen pro debut vs. TBA

(opponents expected to be announced soon)

Zuffa Boxing 11

Venue: Copper Box Arena, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Hackney Wick, Middlesex, UK

Promoter: Dana Whie, David Lewis - Zuffa Boxing

Matchmaker: Charles Bosecker - Zuffa

Media: Paramount+

The September 26 event represents an important step in Zuffa Boxing’s expansion into the United Kingdom. Zuffa Boxing and Sky Sports agreed to a multi-year UK and Ireland broadcast partnership in March 2026, with Sky Sports designated as the broadcaster for Zuffa Boxing events in the region and a commitment to stage at least five shows per year on UK soil. Zuffa Boxing’s U.S. and Canadian events are distributed through Paramount+, which became the promotion’s exclusive home in those territories under a long-term media-rights agreement announced by Paramount and TKO.

For Fisher, September 26 is an opportunity to turn the page on his first professional defeat and begin the Zuffa chapter with a statement performance in front of his home crowd. For Pirotton, it is a chance to transform a rebuilt winning streak into the biggest opportunity of his career and demonstrate that his unbeaten-stoppage record can withstand the pressure of one of Britain’s most aggressive heavyweight punchers. Fisher has already declared his intention to become the first man to stop the Belgian, while Pirotton will arrive with the confidence of two consecutive stoppage victories and the knowledge that he has never previously been stopped or knocked down.

Zuffa Boxing 11 is scheduled for Saturday, September 26, at the Copper Box Arena in London, with Johnny Fisher vs. Michael Pirotton headlining a 10-round heavyweight main event and Craig Richards vs. Radivoje Kalajdzic serving as the 10-round light-heavyweight co-main event. The event will air live on Sky Sports in the UK and Ireland and on Paramount+ in the United States and Canada.

Zuffa Boxing, the joint venture between Dana White, TKO Group and Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Authority, is making major waves in the professional boxing industry yet again.

Officially launched in January 2026, the new promotion seeks to introduce a centralized, UFC-style league model featuring a single world title and unified internal rankings. Their partnership with Turki Alalshikh, along with a distribution deal with Paramount+, is shifting the sport’s power dynamic.

The company is headquartered in Las Vegas and aspires to revolutionize the boxing landscape by applying a centralized, promoter-driven model similar to the UFC’s approach, including single belts and unified matchmaking for major titles. White first floated the Zuffa Boxing idea following the 2017 Conor McGregor vs. Floyd Mayweather crossover event, citing the need to modernize and streamline boxing promotions, but it wasn’t until June 2025 that the brand was officially launched through high-profile partnerships and funding from Saudi Arabia.

The inaugural Zuffa Boxing event is the blockbuster September 13, 2025, Canelo Álvarez vs. Terence Crawford super-fight, at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, and streaming globally on Netflix—marking a first for a major boxing match of this scale. The promotion is expected to stage 12 events annually for five years, totaling 60 shows, with four of these billed as “mega-fights” similar to the Canelo-Crawford clash.

Zuffa Boxing's first numbered event was Zuffa Boxing 01, held on January 23, 2026, at the Meta Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada. The inaugural show was headlined by Irish middleweight prospect Callum Walsh against Carlos Ocampo, with Walsh winning by unanimous decision.

Media rights negotiations are ongoing, with Paramount Plus as the leading contender for a broadcast deal in the U.S., while select events may continue behind pay-per-view, but the majority could stream widely and even air on CBS. Zuffa Boxing has already organized a prospect-filled card before its first main event, showcasing its commitment to developing new talent alongside marquee matchups.

Through its social media presence and engagement, Zuffa Boxing has signaled a fully modern approach to promotion, with global streaming, high-profile partnerships, and a strong connection to UFC infrastructure and talent. This new venture represents one of the most ambitious attempts yet to reshape professional boxing, bringing together some of combat sports’ biggest players and promising regular major events, innovative matchmaking, and a unified promotional vision.