Rhiannon Dixon and Terri Harper Final Press Conference ahead of their WBO Lightweight title fight on Saturday night. Photo Credit: Dave Thompson, Matchroom Boxing
Fourth time’s a charm for Rhiannon Dixon and Terri Harper.
The ten-round WBO lightweight title fight is finally decided after three previous postponements. Both fighters made weight for their DAZN main event on Saturday at Park Community Arena in Sheffield, England.
Dixon (10-0, 1 KO) weighed 134.6 pounds before her first defense of the WBO lightweight belt.
Harper (14-2-2, 6 KOs), from nearby Denaby Main, was 134.4 pounds in her bid for a three-division title shot. The weight was her lightest since March 2022, before her three-two division jump to junior middleweight.
Dixon won the vacant title in a ten-round decision over Argentina’s Karen Carabajal on April 13 in Manchester. The fight was the toughest test yet for the 29-year-old southpaw from Warrington.
Harper previously held titles at 130 and 154 pounds. However, the 27-year-old is on a two-fight winless streak. She was drawn against former pound-for-pound queen Cecilia Braekhus at Utilita Arena in Sheffield on 7 October. The fight marked her last fight as the WBA junior middleweight title contender.
At the same venue, Harper suffered a fourth-round loss to reigning WBO welterweight champion Sandy Ryan (7-1-1, 3 KOs).
Also on the show, Galal Yafai (7-0, 5 KOs) risks a fall date with busy relationship Sunny Edwards. The 2020 Olympic Gold medalist hopes to avoid this becoming a trap fight as he faces Mexico’s Sergio Orozco (9-8, 7 KOs) in a scheduled eight-round flyweight contest.
Yafai tipped the scales at 114.3 pounds. Orozco came in at 113 ½ pounds.
With a win, Yafai will go on to take on Edwards, the former IBF flyweight titleholder, on November 30 in Birmingham.
DAZN main undercard, Saturday, 7pm GMT/2pm ET
Peter McGrail (9-1, 5 KOs), Liverpool, Merseyside, 121 ½ lbs
Brad Foster (15-3-2, 5 KOs), Lichfield, England, 121 ½ lbs
10 rounds, junior featherweight
George Liddard (8-0, 4 KOs), Billericay, Essex, 160.3 lbs
George Davey (9-1-1, 2 KOs), York, Yorkshire, 158 ½ lbs
8 rounds, middleweight
Giorgio Visioli (4-0, 3 KOs), Guildford, Surrey, 133.1 lbs
Diego Lagos (11-4. 5 KOs), Bogota, Colombia, 130 ½ lbs
6 rounds, junior lightweight
