Mahmoud Charr might be coming off a two-year layoff to defend his WBA ‘common’ heavyweight title this Saturday, December seventh, in opposition to #7 ranked contender Kubrat Pulev in Sofia. Charr-Pulev is scheduled for 8:00 p.m. GMT. The occasion might be proven dwell on DAZN at 6:00 p.m. GMT.
If Pulev appears to be like as dangerous as he did in his 12-round break up choice loss to Derek Chisora on July 9, 2022, Charr has an ideal likelihood of profitable. Pulev regarded very sluggish, and nothing just like the fighter that had fought then IBF and WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko in 2014 or the one which stopped Tony Thompson in 2013. Pulev was a reasonably good contender throughout his prime, however he’s gotten outdated and misplaced lots of his hand velocity.
Pulev has received his final two fights, beating Ihor Shevadzutskyi and Andrzej Wawrzyk. These aren’t world-class contenders, although.
In Charr’s final struggle two years in the past, he knocked our journeyman Nuri Seferi within the second spherical on December 21, 2022. The opposite guys, Charr, have crushed the identical kind of non-relevant second-tier heavyweights.
Charr, 40, has received his final six fights since being stopped within the fifth spherical by Mairis Briedis on August twenty second, 2015. Curiously, Charr has fought solely six occasions within the final 9 years because the loss to Briedis, and but he holds the WBA ‘common’ title. I can solely assume that the cash he was getting paid was so good that he didn’t really feel the should be extra energetic.
It’s laborious to consider that Charr will defend the WBA ‘common’ heavyweight title on this struggle with Pulev as a result of he appears to be like nothing like a world champion. Nevertheless, the WBA’s common belts are their sub-championships, they usually’re often for guys who don’t possess the expertise to carry the principle belt. Gervonta Davis is the exception at light-weight.
Pulev, 43, has been the extra energetic fighter of the 2, however that won’t assist in opposition to Charr if he’s gotten something left from the final time he fought. Neither regarded spectacular of their previous couple of fights, however Charr wasn’t fairly as dangerous.
Saturday’s Charr vs. Pulev struggle might be proven dwell on DAZN.
Charr vs. Pulev struggle card
- Mahmoud Charr vs. Kubrat Pulev; Heavyweight
- Gleb Bakshi vs. Juan Manuel Taborda; Middleweight
- Petar Draganov vs. Juan Antonio Llanes; Tremendous welterweight
- Mohammed Bekdash vs. Juan Rodolfo Juarez; Cruiserweight
- Pietro Loriga vs. Marko Dmitrovic; Tremendous light-weight
- Zdravko Popov vs. Rafael Amarillas Ortiz; Middleweight
- Paris Stavropoulos vs. Atilla Kayabasi; Light-weight
- Nikolay Chavdarov vs. Kalin Simeonov; Middleweight
