Caroline Dubois schools Terri Harper, unifying lightweight titles

Caroline Dubois didn’t deliver on her promise to knock out Terri Harper, but she outclassed her and took her WBO belt, unifying the lightweight division with the WBC strap.

Not much landed for either in the first round, despite Dubois trying to get on the inside of Harper’s lead foot. Dubois then raised the intensity, connecting on multiple jabs and a body shot with a straight left hand.

Her focus was breaking her down with body strikes and the pressure neutralized Harper’s attack. Dubois managed to slip out of big ones, and later dropped her with a head shot on the tail end of a  2-1 and 1-2 combinations.

The bell rang quickly after, giving Harper a reprieve, but she entered the seventh round not willing to engage and paid for the shots she landed. There was an accidental head clash in the next interval that drew blood from Harper’s left eyebrow, and she got battered heading into the closing rounds.

Yet the continuous punishment finally forced her to let her hands go, turning the ninth and 10th rounds into a brawl with both ladies landing heartless punches up and downstairs.  Harper dished seven more power punches between those two rounds, per CompuBox.

Dubois won unanimously on the cards 98-91, 97-92, 98-91. She said in her post-fight interview that, “I’m an entertainer and this is what I do,” and that she only wants big fights in the future, with two more coming in 2026. 

The rest of Most Valuable Promotions’ fight card included Ellie Scotney defeating Mayelli Flores to become England’s youngest undisputed champion (junior flyweight); Chantelle Cameron won the vacant WBO junior middleweight belt over Michaela Kotaskova; Irma Garcia retained her IBF junior bantamweight title against Emma Dolan.

On top of that, Mikaela Mayer, the WBO’s welterweight champ who is also a unified titlist at 154 pounds (WBA + WBC) wants to be undisputed. She was working as one of the analysts on the broadcast, and she faced off with Cameron in the ring, setting up a fight for later this year. Mayer also had the junior middleweight belt before vacating it in January.