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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.
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.
Anthony Joshua is under the strong belief that Saturday’s heavyweight championship fight against Kubrat Pulev will all be about mindset. The WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO heavyweight champion faces Pulev at Wembley Arena on Saturday night, and he acknowledges that the Bulgarian heavyweight’s experience will mean he’s in for a tough test.
Joshua, Pulev Final Press Conference Photos Gallery - Anthony Joshua will return to the ring this Saturday to defend his WBA, IBF, WBO, IBO heavyweight titles against Bulgaria’s Kubrat Pulev. For the Briton, it will be the first defense in his new phase as a monarch and he will do it at Wembley Arena in London, where his best battles have taken place.
IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua is rejecting talk of having weaknesses in his game. On Saturday night at SSE Arena at Wembley, Joshua will return to the ring for the first time in a year to make a mandatory defense against once-beaten Kubrat Pulev.
WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has confirmed that he will not be ringside for Saturday's fight between Anthony Joshua and Kubrat Pulev. Joshua will defend his WBA, IBF, WBO, IBO titles against mandatory challenger Pulev. Should Joshua win, he will be in direct line for a potential full division unification against Fury in 2021.