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 (五月 28, 2025) - Hall of Fame Boxing Promoter唐金 has won a $1.1 million purse bid from the WBA for the right to promote a world title fight featuring current WBA (定期) 重量級世界冠軍Kubrat“ The Cobra” Pulevfacing WBA No. 2 競爭者邁克爾“賞金”獵人 週六, 八月 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^日 birthday on August 20. King said the location for the fight will be determined at a later date with Florida, 拉斯維加斯, Ohio and Pennsylvania among the potential sites.

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

南加州本地獵人 (24-1-2, 17 科斯) 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, 佛羅里達州. 在他12月的最後一場戰鬥中, 獵人在墨西哥的克里斯蒂安·拉隆多·加西亞（Christian Larrondo Garcia）上登記了第五輪TKO. 獵人唯一的職業挫折又回到了 2017 當他輸給了當前的Oleksandr Usyk一致的12輪決定, 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”.