Mikaela Lauren plants pre-fight kiss on undefeated world champion

Boxers employ all manner of theatrics and outrageous behaviour in order to unnerve opponents, but Swedish fighter Mikaela Lauren's intimate tactics left her adversary in peels of laughter. 

During the weigh-in before Lauren face undefeated welterweight champion Cecilia Braekhus, Lauren stared the Norwiegen out before trying to 'French kiss' her. 

Braekhus initially recoiled and tried to slap Lauren, but the situation was diffused when she backed away and started laughing about the outlandish stunt. 

"I haven’t got that in a while," Braekhus said, who boats a 31-0 professional record and will defend her WBC, WBA, WBO, IBF, IBO world titles on October 21 in Norway.

Braekhus got the better of Lauren in seven rounds when the pair met in 2010, but the Swede has improved and great deal since and experts fancy Saturday's fight will be evenly contested. 

It is not the first time Lauren has tried to land a kiss on an opponent, planting one on the lips of a Christina Hammer during a WBF world middleweight fight in 2013.

Boxing fans have grown used to all kinds of pre-fight trash-talking and antics this year, following the bad blood that preceded Tony Bellew's fight against David Haye and Conor McGregor's novelty bout with Floyd Mayweather Jr.