Tervel Pulev: record, next fight and profile →
Costa Mesa, California - Maxim Dadashev was forced out of his comfort zone just enough to flatten Ricky Sismundo in the fourth round of an entertaining scrap that saw both boxers hit the canvas.
Jessie Magdaleno, Rico Ramos Weights Photos Gallery - Top heavyweight contender Kubrat Pulev is ready to make a splash in his U.S. debut. (photos by Mikey Williams). Pulev (26-1, 13 KOs) will take on Bogdan Dinu (18-1, 14 KOs) in the 10-round main event Saturday evening at The Hangar in Costa Mesa, California.
Hungarian Felix-Promotion, headed by Felix Racz, won the purse bids for the right to stage the final WBO super middleweight eliminator between Shefat Isufi, 27-3-2, and Vincent Feigenbutz, 29-2.
The way things look now unbeaten cruiserweights Fabio Turchi, 15-0 and Tervel Pulev 11-0, will clash for the vacant EU title sometime during the fall. The EBU have set down the date of August 9 as the deadline for purse bids or agreements.
Unbeaten heavyweights Ali Eren Demirezen, 7-0, and Michael Wallisch, 17-0, clash on March 24 in Hamburg with the vacant WBO Euro title at stake. Wallish has by now been around since 2010 with long layoffs due to outside of the ring problems and change of promoters.
Deurne, Belgium: The first ever EBU title fight between two Belgians went ahead last night and Yves Ngabu (19-0) retained the title with a third round stoppage of Geoffrey Batello (32-6). The result was expected but Batello is a dangerous puncher and was a live underdog.
WBA super welterweight interim champion Brian Carlos Castano will return to France in March, writes netboxe.com, and defend the title against former EBU titleholder Cedric Vitu. Vitu won an IBF eliminator in May and has been waiting since then for his chance.
French heavyweight contender Johann Duhaupas will have his first fight in France, since early 2014, take place on December 14 in Levallois Perret on Asloum Promotion´s big show topped by lightweights Yvan Mendy vs Jesus Arevalo. Duhaupas has of lately fought on small hall events in Finland and also stepped in to challenge Alexander Povetkin but was knocked out in five. In Levalloi he takes on, for the WBA Int´l title, Newfel Outah (15-1) in an all French exciting matchup
WBA I/C champ Ryad Merhy (23-0) defends the title against American Nick Kisner (19-3-1) at the Spiroudome Arena in Charleroi in Belgium on December 16. The show is staged by 12 Rounds Promotion. Merhy is ranked # 3 by the WBA and # 11 by the WBO and a world title fight could be near depending on how the World Boxing Super Series Tournament develops.
Bulgarian amateur star Tervel Pulev will make his professional debut on December 3 on the undercard of older brother Kubrat Pulev’s WBA Intercontinental Heavyweight title fight with Samuel Peter at the Arena Armeec in Sofia.