⁍ Bulgaria’s Kubrat Pulev will fight heavyweight world champion Anthony Joshua in London on December 12.
⁍ The 39-year-old had been scheduled to meet Joshua on June 20 but the fight was postponed due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
⁍ Pulev challenged for the IBF world heavyweight title in 2014, losing to Wladimir Klitschko in Hamburg on a fifth-round knockout.
– The much-anticipated world heavyweight title fight between Anthony Joshua and Kubrat Pulev has been rescheduled for December. The fight was originally scheduled to take place in June but was postponed due to the Ebola outbreak in Africa, reports Reuters. The 39-year-old Pulev, the mandatory challenger for Joshua’s IBF title, now says the fight will take place in London on Dec. 12. Joshua, 30, defeated Mexican-American Andy Ruiz Jr in a rematch in Saudi Arabia last December to win back his IBF, WBA, WBO, and IBO titles. The Briton was initially due to fight Pulev at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium in October 2017 but the Bulgarian withdrew after suffering a shoulder injury in sparring.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-boxing-heavyweight-pulev/pulev-says-joshua-fight-is-set-for-london-on-december-12-idUSKBN26X2M7