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Braehmer: Clev bout bigger now
- Updated: September 27, 2016
Juergen Braehmer believes Saturday’s world title fight with Nathan Cleverly, live on Sky Sports, is bigger than it was when the pair were set to fight five years ago.
The two light-heavyweights were meant to meet in 2011 at London’s O2 Arena, before WBO champion Braehmer withdrew from the fight just days before, leaving Cleverly to face Aleksy Kuziemski for the vacant belt.
While Cleverly won that fight and went on to make four successful world title defences before losing out to Russian powerhouse Sergey Kovalev, Braehmer went in a different direction, eventually winning his second world title and will now be making the seventh defence of that WBA strap.
The German southpaw is glad to finally have the fight scheduled again and believes …
