Hall of Fame Boxing Promoter Don King Wins $1.1 Million Purse Bid To Promote WBA Regular Heavyweight World Champion Kubrat Pulev Facing No. 2 Contender Michael Hunter On August 23

MIAMI (مايو 28, 2025)-Hall of Fame Boxing Promoterدون كينج has won a $1.1 million purse bid from the WBA for the right to promote a world title fight featuring current WBA (منتظم) بطل العالم الوزن الثقيلكوبرات بوليف "الكوبرا"facing WBA No. 2 المنافسمايكل "ذا باونتي" هنتر في.يوم السبت, أغسطس 23 at a site to be determined.

It will be a true week of celebration during Fight Week as King will be celebrating his 94^عشر birthday on August 20. King said the location for the fight will be determined at a later date with Florida, لاس فيغاس, Ohio and Pennsylvania among the potential sites.

Fighting in his hometown of Sofia, بلغاريا, the crowd-favorite 44-year-old Pulev (32-3, 14 كوس) won the WBA (منتظم) World Championship with his 12-round unanimous decision win over Mahmoud Charr last December.

The Southern California native Hunter (24-1-2, 17 كوس) won the vacant WBA Gold Heavyweight Title in June taking out Cassius Chaney in a 12-round unanimous decision at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, فلوريدا. In his last fight in December, Hunter registered a fifth-round TKO over Christian Larrondo Garcia in Mexico. Hunter’s only career setback came back in 2017 when he lost a unanimous 12-round decision to current Oleksandr Usyk, who in December beat Tyson Fury to become just the third boxer to become an undisputed world champion in the two weight divisions in the “four-belt era”.