Sunday 13th December 2020
World title successfully defended
Joshua hits Pulew hard
After a convincing knockout against the Bulgarian Kubrat Pulew, Anthony Joshua remains heavyweight boxing world champion. So he can keep his titles of the associations WBA, WBO and IBF and hope for a union fight against WBC champion and compatriot Tyson Fury.
Boxing superstar Anthony Joshua remains four-time heavyweight world champion. The 31-year-old Briton won in London against the Bulgarian Kubrat Pulew, trained by Ulli Wegner, by knockout. in the ninth round and successfully defended his belts in the WBO, IBF, WBA and IBO associations. In front of 1,000 spectators at Wembley, Pulew also did not use his second World Cup chance after the lost duel with Wladimir Klitschko in 2014.
This clears the way for a union fight with WBC world champion Tyson Fury on the part of Joshua. Whether the fight between the two Englishmen will really take place in the coming year is still open. Most recently, the Joshua party had accused Fury again and again of shirking the duel.
Joshua's promoter Eddie Hearn had a knockout against Pulew. prophesied within the first six rounds. His protégé started out cautiously, then showed his entire repertoire in the third round. Pulew went down twice and was close to knockout. But Pulew recovered and even won the sixth round. In the ninth lap, Joshua first got through with his right hook, then ended the fight with a hard straight.
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