Middleweight contenders Cesar Mateo Tapia and Leo Ruiz will face off in an action-packed 10-rounder as part of the main card for ZUFFA BOXING 11: FISHER vs. PIROTTON on Saturday, September 26, at the Copper Box Arena in London.
Sky Sports will broadcast the event in the UK and Ireland, with the main card starting at 7 pm BST/2 pm ET/11 am PT and the preliminary bouts beginning at 5 pm BST/12 pm ET/9 am PT.
The entire card will stream live on Paramount+ at no additional cost in the U.S., Latin America, Brazil, and Canada.
Tickets are on sale now via Ticketmaster.
Tapia (18-0-1, 11 KOs), who was born in Mexico and raised in Australia, will be making his UK and Zuffa Boxing debuts. He last fought in March 2025, stopping Sergei Vorobev in five rounds. Ruiz (17-1, 9 KOs), the Robert Garcia-trained pressure fighter from Zacatecas, Mexico, has won a pair of bouts since the lone loss on his ledger. He knocked out Casey James Streeter in the fourth round at ZUFFA BOXING 3 in February.
As previously announced, hometown favorite Johnny “The Romford Bull” Fisher (14-1, 12 KOs) will take on Belgium’s Michael Pirotton (12-2, 6 KOs) in the 10-round heavyweight main event. London-born light heavyweight contender Craig “Spider” Richards (20-4-1, 13 KOs) hopes to keep his title hopes alive against Radivoje “Hot Rod” Kalajdzic (30-3, 22 KOs) in the 10-round co-feature, while British middleweight veterans Lee Cutler (16-2, 8 KOs) and Louis Greene (19-4, 12 KOs) will fight in a high-stakes 10-rounder.
The rest of the main card is as follows:
Leon Hughes (5-0, 4 KOs) vs. Michael Stephenson (10-3), 6 Rounds, Light Heavyweights
Kayla Allen (Pro Debut) vs. Elisabeth Mronsz (2-0, 1 KO), 6 Rounds, Super Lightweights
The preliminary card will be topped by an eight-round cruiserweight battle between Mexican Olympian Rogelio Romero (6-0, 6 KOs) and Aurel Ignat (11-0, 8 KOs), a native of Moldova who now resides in London. Romero reached the quarterfinals at the Tokyo Olympics before turning professional in 2024. Ignat’s last nine fights have taken place in London.
The rest of the prelim card is as follows:
Alex MacMillan (4-0, 3 KOs) vs. Guillaume Azagier (2-0), 6 Rounds, Super Welterweights
Alexis De la Cerda (9-0, 5 KOs) vs. Cain Lewis (10-0-1, 2 KOs), 6 Rounds, Featherweights
Fred Pullen (Pro Debut) vs. Leonardo Faretina (8-9-2, 3 KOs), 4 Rounds, Lightweights
