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
마이애미 (할 수있다 28, 2025)-Hall of Fame Boxing Promoter돈 킹 has won a $1.1 million purse bid from the WBA for the right to promote a world title fight featuring current WBA (정규병) 헤비급 세계 챔피언르트 "코브라"풀 레프facing WBA No. 2 경쟁자마이클 "바운티"헌터 토요일에, 위엄있는 23 at a site to be determined.
It will be a true week of celebration during Fight Week as King will be celebrating his 94제 birthday on August 20. King said the location for the fight will be determined at a later date with Florida, 라스 베이거스, Ohio and Pennsylvania among the potential sites.
Fighting in his hometown of Sofia, 불가리아, the crowd-favorite 44-year-old Pulev (32-3, 14 KOS 호텔) won the WBA (정규병) World Championship with his 12-round unanimous decision win over Mahmoud Charr last December.
The Southern California native Hunter (24-1-2, 17 KOS 호텔) 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, 플로리다. 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”.