Terri Harper will now get a house sport for her subsequent title bid.
The previous 130- and 154-pound titlist’s problem of unbeaten WBO 135-pound beltholder Rhiannon Dixon has a brand new date and placement. Their bout will now happen on Sept. 28 at Utilita Area in Sheffield, England.
Matchroom Boxing confirmed the event on Thursday. Dixon-Harper was beforehand as a result of land on the Aug. 24 Jack Catterall-Regis Prograis card at Co-op Stay in Manchester, England. That occasion was postponed by a minimum of two months after Catterall (29-1, 13 knockouts) suffered a rib damage throughout coaching camp.
The title battle will now are available in supporting capability to the Dalton Smith-Jon Fernandez EBU junior welterweight title battle.
Dixon (10-0, 1 KO) will try the primary protection of the belt she received earlier this 12 months. She outpointed Karen Elizabeth Carabajal (22-2, 3 KOs) of their April 13 vacant title battle at close by AO Area.
The 29-year-old southpaw from Warrington is The Ring’s No. 3-rated light-weight.
Harper (14-2-2, 6 KOs) returns dwelling, although to an area enviornment that has produced combined outcomes for her profession.
She got here up nicely brief in her earlier bid to turn out to be a three-division titlist. The 27-year-old from close by Denaby Most important suffered a fourth-round stoppage to WBO welterweight titlist Sandy Ryan (7-1-1, 3 KOs) on March 23 at this very location.
The battle marked her debut at welterweight after she beforehand held the WBA 154-pound title. Harper vacated that belt after a ten-round draw versus former undisputed welterweight champ Cecilia Brækhus final October.
Her problem of Dixon’s title marks Harper’s third straight battle at Utilita Area and sixth of her profession. She received her first main title on the venue, a Feb. 2020 resolution over Eva Wahlstrom to say the WBC 130-pound title. Two profitable defenses adopted earlier than her Nov. 2021 knockout defeat to Alycia Baumgardner (15-1, 7 KOs), additionally at this website.
Harper additionally held the WBC 130-pound title. She is at the moment The Ring’s No. 1-rated junior middleweight.
