Terri Harper will now get a house recreation 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 site. 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 consequence of land on the Aug. 24 Jack Catterall-Regis Prograis card at Co-op Stay in Manchester, England. That occasion was postponed by not less than two months after Catterall (29-1, 13 knockouts) suffered a rib damage throughout coaching camp.
The title combat will now are available supporting capability to the Dalton Smith-Jon Fernandez EBU junior welterweight title combat.
Dixon (10-0, 1 KO) will try the primary protection of the belt she gained earlier this 12 months. She outpointed Karen Elizabeth Carabajal (22-2, 3 KOs) of their April 13 vacant title combat 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 residence, although to an area area that has produced combined outcomes for her profession.
She got here up nicely quick in her earlier bid to grow to be a three-division titlist. The 27-year-old from close by Denaby Foremost suffered a fourth-round stoppage to WBO welterweight titlist Sandy Ryan (7-1-1, 3 KOs) on March 23 at this very location.
The combat 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 combat at Utilita Area and sixth of her profession. She gained her first main title on the venue, a Feb. 2020 choice over Eva Wahlstrom to assert 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 web site.
Harper additionally held the WBC 130-pound title. She is presently The Ring’s No. 1-rated junior middleweight.
