{"id":3920,"date":"2024-08-30T20:45:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T20:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/johnny-fisher-briton-headlines-london-contest-with-rhiannon-dixon-terri-harper-on-undercard\/"},"modified":"2024-08-30T20:45:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T20:45:37","slug":"johnny-fisher-briton-headlines-london-contest-with-rhiannon-dixon-terri-harper-on-undercard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/johnny-fisher-briton-headlines-london-contest-with-rhiannon-dixon-terri-harper-on-undercard\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Fisher: Briton headlines London contest with Rhiannon Dixon-Terri Harper on undercard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">British heavyweight Johnny Fisher will fight Andriy Rudenko at the Copper Box Arena in London on 28 September.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fight card will include an all-British world title fight between WBO lightweight champion Rhiannon Dixon and Terri Harper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both bouts were due to be on the undercard of Dalton Smith&#8217;s cancelled lightweight fight against Jon Fernandez in Sheffield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is the second time Fisher has headlined at the Copper Box Arena, having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/czk0354z7g7o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">stopped Alen Babic in July.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The one-round victory was the 11th knockout win for the undefeated Romford fighter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fisher, 25, faces a vastly more experienced opponent in 40-year-old Rudenko.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Ukrainian has 36 wins and seven defeats on his record, including to American Jared Anderson, China&#8217;s Zhilei Zhang and Briton Hughie Fury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For Dixon, this is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cj50lge8660o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">second time her first world title defence<\/a> has been moved after it was originally scheduled for 23 August on the undercard of Jack Catterall v Regis Prograis in Manchester.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dixon, 29, is undefeated in 10 fights and will make a first defence of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/68808375\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">world title she won in April.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harper, 27, is a multiple-weight world champion with 14 wins, two losses and two draws on her impressive record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the Doncaster fighter has had mixed fortunes in her most recent bouts, drawing with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/67042706\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Cecilia Braekhus in a light-middleweight unification fight<\/a> last October, before suffering a stoppage loss to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/68648143\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">WBO champion Sandy Ryan<\/a> at welterweight in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dixon is one of two currently undefeated world champions from England alongside WBA featherweight champion Nick Ball.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cy84gm27g5po\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British heavyweight Johnny Fisher will fight Andriy Rudenko at the Copper Box Arena in London on 28 September. The fight card will include an all-British world title fight between WBO lightweight champion Rhiannon Dixon and Terri Harper. Both bouts were due to be on the undercard of Dalton Smith&#8217;s cancelled lightweight fight against Jon Fernandez [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3922,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions\/3922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}