Zuffa Boxing paid an extraordinary premium for Johnny Fisher, but its primary task is repairing a heavyweight Dave Allen dismantled. Saturday’s main event against Michael Pirotton at London’s Copper Box Arena is tailored to make Fisher look dangerous again without placing him near anyone capable of repeating Allen’s handiwork.
The venue provides its own uncomfortable history. This is the very ring where Allen dropped Fisher twice before stopping him in the fifth round. Zuffa is attempting to scrub that humiliation away immediately, yet sending Fisher straight back to the scene of his worst professional defeat risks backfiring if those li
