KELLY Morgan says that she cannot overlook Bulgarian veteran Borislava Goranova with a world title shot in the offing.

The 36-year-old WBC Silver middleweight champion heads to Bournemouth on Friday night for her fifth professional contest in what is likely to be her last in the UK for sometime.

Talks have been ongoing with WBC super-middleweight world champion Nikki Adler about a fight later this autumn but Morgan knows that she cannot overlook the 38-year-old from Sofia before then.

“Borislava has had 56 professional fights so she is no mug,” Morgan told the Advertiser.

“I should be able to get some good experience from her. No matter what happens, I am going to learn.

“Training, as always, has been another tough camp. I have had additional training to try and bulk up a little bit in preparation for Nikki as well, without going over middleweight because I have got this fight.

“It has been a bit of a balancing act and it has been pretty full on with training and nutrition.

“Rather than weighing in at 155lbs, I am now up to a true middleweight at 160lbs, which is where we wanted to be for this fight, ready to make the next step up as soon as this fight is over to super-middle.

“With these additional goals for the long-term plan, it has been really quite taxing.

“At the end of the day, it can be as hard as it likes as long as we get there and we are there and I am ready to go.”

Meanwhile, Jamie Cox is set to resume his career on Saturday, September 24, with the former WBO super-middleweight European champion expected to be fighting on the undercard of Marco Huck’s IBO world cruiserweight title defence against Ovill McKenzie in Frankfurt.

Cox’s career has been on hold following his convictions in March for harassment, violence to secure entry and criminal damage, which led to a 26-week suspended jail term - he was cleared of assault on appeal.

Kelvin Young will look to put his Southern Area light-heavyweight defeat to Jack Morris behind him when he faces David Brophy next month.

The Penhill fighter, who takes on Sam Couzens on November 26 at the Oasis Leisure Centre in the final part of their trilogy, heads to Glasgow on October 7 to fight on the undercard of Ricky Burns’ WBA world super-lightweight title defence against Kiryl Relikh.

Brophy will head into the contest after being stopped in four rounds by former world title challenger George Groves in a WBA super-middleweight international title bout.