Anthony Joshua: record, next fight and profile →
Kubrat Pulev certainly didn’t get any younger in the three years waiting for this opportunity to come back around. The question at large is whether or not he can make the most of a second chance title shot versus this version of Anthony Joshua.
By Tris Dixon - Boxers exchanging their last pre-fight barbs during those obligatory face-to-face weigh-in pictures is nothing new. But it’s fair to say that Anthony Joshua and Kubrat Pulev’s lengthy verbal tiff after they’d both hit the scales gave Mathroom’s Eddie Hearn those warm tingly feelings, when he knows he can sell a product to market. Pulev weighed in at 239.7lbs...
Frank Warren, co-promoter of WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, is not expecting a fire-fight when Anthony Joshua steps in the ring with Kubrat Pulev. Joshua will defend the WBO, IBF, IBO, WBA heavyweight titles against Pulev on Saturday night at SSE Arena at Wembley.
IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua is hoping that his upcoming opponent, Kubrat Pulev, backs up his talk come fight night. On Saturday night, Joshua will make a mandatory defense against Pulev at the SSE Arena in Wembley.
Things got very tense of Friday, when heavyweights Anthony Joshua and Kubrat Pulev stepped on the scale at the official weigh-in. Joshua will defend the WBO, IBO, IBF, WBA titles against Pulev on Saturday night at the SSE Arena at Wembley.
Joshua, Pulev Weights Photos Gallery - Things became very heated in London, as the main event boxers had to be separated and nearly brawled at the official weigh-in. Anthony Joshua will return to the ring this Saturday to defend his WBA, IBF, WBO, IBO heavyweight titles against Bulgaria’s Kubrat Pulev. (photos by Mark Robinson)
Tyson Fury should revisit plans for a third fight with Deontay Wilder—or a first fight with any other available heavyweight contender. So believes Bob Arum, Fury’s Hall of Fame promoter who insists that another one of his fighters will shake up the heavyweight picture this weekend. Kubrat Pulev is a longshot underdog to dethrone unified heavyweight titlist Anthony Joshua (23-1, 21KOs) this Saturday on the road at SSE Arena-Wembley. A win in that direction will leave Arum and Top Rank with full control of every major heavyweight title, with 2021 already being planned with that possibility in mind.
Anthony Joshua and Kubrat Pulev are set for the final significant heavyweight fight of 2020. The unified heavyweight title fight tops a seven-fight bill which airs live on Sky Sports Box Office in the United Kingdom and DAZN in the United States, live from SSE Arena, Wembley.
Hall of Fame trainer Freddie Roach is a big fan of the current heavyweight champions, Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury. The two fighters are going to potentially collide in a two-fight series in 2021. A few months back, they agreed in principle on the financial aspects of the deal.
Robert McCracken, the head trainer of IBF, WBO, WBA, IBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, believes too many critics are focusing on his boxers' defeat at the hands of Andy Ruiz. Back in June of 2019, Joshua was dropped four times and stopped in the seventh when he faced Ruiz at Madison Square Garden in New York City.