By Edward Chaykovsky

WBA 'regular' light heavyweight champion Juergen Braehmer, 37-years-old, is looking for the biggest fights possible. But in order to reach them has needs to overcome this Saturday's fight with former WBO world champion Nathan Cleverly.

Back then Braehmer was the WBO world champion. When he withdrew a few days before the fight was scheduled to come off, the sanctioning body stripped him, and Cleverly beat Aleksy Kuziemski to capture the vacant belt.

Cleverly lost that title, after four defenses, when he was knocked out by Sergey Kovalev. Cleverly then had a brief run in the cruiserweight division, but realized that he was too small for the weight and returned to 175-pounds.

He feels the fight with Cleverly is bigger now that it was in 2011.

"I'm really excited about this fight and I can't wait to finally get it on," Braehmer told Sky Sports. "This fight is five years in the making and I believe that it has got bigger over the years and the interest in it has only grown. I rate Cleverly the same as I did in 2011, he has the same offensive style and I know how to prepare for him."

Beyond this fight, Braehmer is going to have his eye on November 19, when Kovalev defense his WBA/IBF/WBO titles against Andre Ward. If he's unable to get the winner of that fight, he's also ready to face WBC world champion Adonis Stevenson.

With the WBA consolidating the 'super' and 'regular' world titles, the winners of Braehmer-Cleverly and Kovalev-Ward could very well be ordered to face each other.

"This is another defence of my title and as long as I can contend with guys ten years my junior, I will keep on going, I'm showing no signs of stopping. I want to be in the biggest fights and if they can be made then you have to find a way to do it," Braehmer said.

"Hopefully, after I beat Cleverly we can contact one of those other champions and get something finalized. It would be a shame for me to finish my career without getting that big opportunity."