Promoter Don King has announced that WBA Regular heavyweight champion Kubrat Pulev will defend his title to Michael Hunter on October 4 at Casino Miami in Florida.
The 93-year-old boxing promoter Don King won purse bids by offering $1.1 million for the championship contest.
Blair Cobbs vs Adrien Broner will also appear on the Florida card.
Pulev-Hunter was actually meant to happen this month, on August 23, but the fight date has now been pushed back a further two months.
The new date of October 4 has been announced just days after King issued a cease and desist order against the news that Michael Hunter would fight Jarrell Miller on September 11.
Bulgarian world champion Kubrat Pulev (32-3, 14 KOs) fought twice last year.
He defeated Ihor Shevadzutskiy in his home city of Sofia for the vacant WBA International heavyweight title, then he upgraded to the Regular version of the world title with a unanimous decision over Mahmoud Charr, also in Sofia, Bulgaria.
American Michael Hunter (24-1-2, 17 KOs) fought three times last year, firstly stopping Ignacio Esparza in five rounds in March, then decisioning Cassius Chaney unanimously in June, culminating in a fifth-round stoppage of unheralded Mexican Christian Larrondo Garcia.
The winner will likely be ordered to defend against the WBA Interim champion, Fabio Wardley, from England.
The WBA installed Wardley as the mandatory challenger in March 2025: “As for Kubrat Pulev, the WBA Regular Champion, he must defend his title against Fabio Wardley, who is currently the number one ranked contender. The mandatory defense period will begin on March 5, 2025, and conclude on April 4, 2025.
“The winner of Pulev vs. Wardley—or Pulev in the case of a draw—must then face Michael Hunter, the third-ranked contender, in a mandatory defense within 120 days of that bout, with a final deadline of October 25, 2025.”
Wardley instead fought New Zealander Justus Huni in June to win the Interim belt, while Hunter gets his shot at the Regular belt in the meantime.
