DAZN has picked up the heavyweight title fight between WBA regular world champion Mahmoud “Diamond Boy” Charr (34-4, 20 KOs) and Kubrat “The Cobra” Pulev (31-3, 14 KOs) taking place Saturday, December 7, at the Arena Sophia in Sofia, Bulgaria. The event is promoted by Epic Sports & Entertainment.
Charr, 40, last fought in December 2022. Charr had previously lost his status as champion in recess in December 2021, after not having fought in the scheduled time and after the impossibility of arranging a fight with Trevor Bryan. However, after two years and a judicial process in between, in August 2023, the WBA Championships Committee reinstated Charr as regular champion as part of a court settlement.
Pulev, 43, is currently rated #7 by the WBA. He last fought in March, defeating Ihor Shevadzutskyi.
Guy regularly takes ENTIRE YEARS off at a time, but the WBA just cannot get rid of Mahmoud Charr.
Insane. Give him mandatory status, let him get destroyed, and be done with it. He couldn’t beat a top 20 guy, let alone a Fury/Usyk/Dubois. Time to end the comedy act.
Yeah. All of the top guys and most of the next level guys (like I think Michael Hunter and Jared Anderson) would beat Charr. Absolutely.
So much about WBA doing away with regular titles.
Can’t believe how WBA has destroyed its own reputation with these bogus titles
To think the WBA at one time had Trevor Bryan and Manuel Charr as champs. Neither guy has been a top 10 guy at any time (maybe Charr briefly). And those were your top guys.
Not very long ago at all, the WBA had FIVE heavyweight champions at the same time. AJ was super champion, Bryan was regular champion, Dubois was interim, Charr was champion in recess and Robert Helenius was gold champion.
That’s funny. And they wonder why people don’t take them seriously…
Charr-Pulev is an EMBARRASSMENT TO THE SPORT.
Shame on DAZN for televising this garbage!
Then don’t watch it.
Shame for showing a fight? Just because the WB is a joke?
It’s crazy how womanly most of you “men” are. You should be ashamed of acting how you did in response.
True-titles have become mostly meaningless to fans but good fights still being made.
At 20 USD per month subscription prices no less.
We know why they wanted it. Because they probably paid nothing for it.
Can’t believe how this Charr, in recess bs never ends
Is the winner required to face Fres Oquendo?
This should be a barn burner !!!
Fast fred oquendo is the real champion
Replays will be available on the Comedy Central Network…
Does the winner get Jake Paul?
“Recess” is for school children
Make the winner of this farce fight take on Ike Ibeabuchi. Then after almost 25 years away from boxing, Ibeabuchi could be the new WBA heavyweight champion of the world at age 59.
Regardless of all the commentary that you could add on, and that many have already spoken, I still think this is a pretty good fight for these two, I’m not really sure who I want or think would win though.