By Per Ake Persson

Sauerland´s First Lady, WBA, WBC and WBO welter queen Cecilia Braekhus defends her titles against Mikaela Lauren from Sweden on October 30 in Rostock on the undercard to Sylvester vs Oral. Lauren, a former elite swimmer, is 6-0 and relatively new to boxing but is very strong and well conditioned so Cecilia will get a hard night´s work before most likely retaining her titles.
 
Highly ranked Russian heavy Dennis Boytsov is still nursing a sore right hand and thus had to decline an offer to fight in the IBF tourney.
 
Newly crowned NABA heavyweight champ Timur Ibragimov is in Stockholm, Sweden, to train and spar with EU challenger Attila Levin. Ibragimov´s career have taken off during 2010 and he has nine wins since losing to Tony Thompson back in 2007.
 
Hassan N´Dam vs Avtandil Khurtside is on for Paris October 30 and it´s a good matchup but there seems to be still confusion for which WBA middleweight title it´s for. Some say it´s for the vacant WBA regular crown while other sources says it´s been reduced to an interim title with Gennadyi Golovkin now declared regular champ.
 
Brian Magee have relinquished the EBU supermiddleweight title to concentrate on bigger things. Magee seems like a likely challenger for WBA king Dimitri Sartison - so likely that Boxing News recently wrote that Magee had turned down a chance to participate in the Super Six tournament. Magee´s mandatory challenger, unbeaten Ukrainian Stas Kashtanov will now face the highest available contender for the vacant title.
 
 It appears that Hasim Rahman will fight Jean Marc Mormeck in Paris December 2. It depends a little on how you count but some claims Rahman is the first heavyweight champ (former or present) to fight in France since the days of Jack Johnson. Mormeck, a fomer cruiser title holder, is on the trails of David Haye but may have left it too late.