Terri Harper hurts hand; unification off

Source: WBC

07/05/2021

Terri Harper hurts hand; unification off

WBC super featherweight champion Terri Harper (11-0-1, 6 KOs) was scheduled to face WBA champion Hyun-Mi Choi (18-0-1, 4 KOs) next Saturday, May 15th at the AO Arena, Manchester, England. Unfortunately, Harper suffered a training injury that will prevent her from getting into the ring. Harper said on social media: “I am absolutely devastated to announce that in my last spar of camp I have damaged my hand again. Myself and my team have worked so hard over the last five months to ensure I had the best recovery and had a full training camp without problems with my hand. Thank you to all involved in this bout for the opportunity and sorry for let you down. An ever a bigger sorry to Hyun Mi Choi and her team. Hopefully, this fight will happen before the end of the year,”
 
Harper knocked out Norway’s Katharina Thanderz in nine rounds to retain her WBC last November. Prior to that, she fought an exciting draw with Natasha Jonas at Matchroom Fight Camp in August retaining her world title.
 
Choi became a world champion by defeating Siriwan Thongmanit, in May 2014, making several successful defenses since then.