Having recently decisioned Mahmoud Charr to claim the WBA “regular” heavyweight belt, Kubrat Pulev is now waiting to see if the WBA will allow him to make a voluntary defence of the title, or if he will be ordered to make a mandatory defence. At the ongoing WBA convention, the subject came up.
Pulev, 43 years old and no doubt looking to make the best money as he possibly can as he looks to defend the version of the WBA heavyweight title he now holds (everyone of course knows Oleksandr Usyk is the WBA heavyweight champion), is interested in a fight with Jarrell Miller. However, if the folks as the WBA do not allow the Bulgarian “Cobra” to have this, a voluntary defence, he will be ordered to fight Michael Hunter next.
Hunter is currently ranked WBA number-3, and he will be next for Pulev if the mandatory is in fact ordered. Most newly crowned champions do have the benefit of a voluntary, so we will wait and see whether Pulev…
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