(MAY 26) Lucia Morelli (9-0-0) will get a rare opportunity to show her craft at the Universum Card in Dusseldorf next Saturday. Italian born Morelli fights out of Offenburg in south Germany, a short distance from Karlsruhe, the home town of Germany's retired female boxing icon Regina Halmich.

Offenburg is also close to France, and Lucia has benefitted from a lot of sparring with top class French boxers like Nadia Hokmi, Anne-Sophie Mathis, Myriam Chomaz and others. However, the biggest problem for Morelli and her trainer Andreas Preuss, has been the lack of opportunity to get fights, despite the popularity of women's boxing in Germany.

Morelli is very pleased to be part of an Universum Event for the second time in her career. She will be facing Borislava Goranova (3-23-0) of Bulgaria. Goranova made her debut in September 2000, and before she is judged too harshly on her less than flattering record, it should be mentioned, that she has fought 21 of 26 fights in UK, Germany, Poland and France against names like Jane Couch (4 times), Myriam Lamare, Agnieszka Rylik, Anne Sophie Mathis (3 times), Natascha Ragosina, Heidi Hartmann and Cecilia Brækhus and only been stopped 3 times. Lucia Morelli also appears on her long list of former opponents. The two met in November 2006, resulting in a 6 round unanimous decision in favour of Morelli.