Heavyweight champion must end the challenge of ‘tough, proud’ Kubrat Pulev to set up a lucrative fight with Tyson Fury
“Kubrat Pulev’s a nutter,” Eddie Hearn said as he lowered his voice and leaned forward conspiratorially. Hearn’s fighter, Anthony Joshua, faces Pulev on Saturday night in the first world heavyweight title contest to take place in a bio-secure Covid-19 bubble. The curiously open and engaging nature of boxing, the most brutal and dangerous of all sports, has been even more evident this week as the fighters, managers, promoters, television crews and lowly writers have all been cooped up together in a cordoned-off section of a hotel in Wembley.
“He’s scary,” Hearn continued after I told him how Pulev had been a quiet revelation whether talking about books or his father, psychology or his conviction that he will beat Joshua. “Every time I’ve seen him this week I’ve gone like that.”
