Kubrat Pulev will face Manuel Char in a dispute for the regular WBA world title on March 30 at Arena Sofia, reported BGNES.
The regular world title, currently held by Mahmoud Char, is the second most important WBA belt, the most important being held by Ukraine's Oleksandr Usyk. Char, 39, was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and is known by the nickname "Diamond Boy". He has 38 fights in the professional ring, in which he has recorded 34 wins (20 by knockout) and only four losses, the last of which was in August 2015. Two of Char's four losses are to Vitali Klitschko and Alexander Povetkin.
The Cobra, for his part, won his last fight against Poland's Andrzej Waczyk by unanimous decision in Costa Mesa, California. In doing so, Pulev avenged his loss to Chisora in the summer of 2022. He has 30 wins (14 by knockout) and three losses, with the previous two coming in world title fights - to Anthony Joshua in 2020 and to Wladimir Klitschko six years earlier.
Pulev last fought in Sofia in October 2018, when he defeated Huey Fury, cousin of world champion Tyson Fury. He previously recorded wins over Kevin Johnson and Samuel Peter in Sofia. /BGNES