Kubrat Venkov Pulev is a Bulgarian professional boxer. He held the European heavyweight title twice between 2012 and 2016, and has challenged once for the unified world heavyweight title in 2014. As an amateur he won multiple medals at international tournaments, including gold at the 2008 European Championships and bronze at the 2005 World Championships. As of August 2020, he is ranked as the world’s ninth best active heavyweight.
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Kubrat Venkov Pulev is a Bulgarian professional boxer. He held the European heavyweight title twice between 2012 and 2016, and has challenged once for the unified world heavyweight title in 2014. As an amateur he won multiple medals at international tournaments, including gold at the 2008 European Championships and bronze at the 2005 World Championships, all in the super-heavyweight division. As of August 2020, he is ranked as the world’s ninth best active heavyweight by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board. He turned professional, at the age of 28, in September 2009 at the Jahnsportforum in Neubrandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. He defeated Florian Benche via 2nd-round technical knockout. He ended his first professional year with 4 wins and no losses. In March 2012 he would fight Alexander Dimitrenko on the Marco Huck vs. Ola Afolabi WBO cruiserweight championship undercard on 5 May in Erfurt, Germany for the vacant EBU European Heavyweight Championship. On 1 August 2012, it was announced that Pulesv would defend his European and IBF International heavyweight titles against Belarus boxer Alexander Ustinov. At the time, Uststov was ranked by the EBA as the EBU heavyweight champion, but was not due to be released until the end of the year due to being the unbeaten EBA heavyweight champion at the time of the fight. He is nicknamed ‘The Cobra’ for his ability to move well on his feet and to avoid punishment.
He has also been known to use his speed and reach to his advantage, and to land punches from a range of up to 10 feet. PuleV is a member of the Bulgarian Boxing Hall of Fame, which was founded by his father, the former Bulgarian Prime Minister, and former President of theBulgarian Football Association. He was born on February 4, 1982, in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, and grew up in the town of Pula, in the province of Burgas. He won the Strandzha Cup in his native Bulgaria in February 2002, beating world champion Odlanier Solís in the process. He also beat world class Alexander Povernov in the European boxing championships 2004 in Pula. He did not qualify for the Olympics despite the fact that he won the last qualifying tournament in Gothenburg. He had to settle for the first reserve place because the heavyweight division consists of only 16 fighters participating in the Olympic Games. In 2006, he beat Vyacheslav Glazkov and Magomed Abdusalamov to claim the European Championship. He finished at third place at the European Championships. In 2007, he was regarded as one of the favorites at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships, but had a bad draw and lost early to southpaw Olympic bronze medalist and eventual winner Roberto Cammarelle. He beat Jaroslavas Jakšto and Marko Tomasović, Roman Kapitonenko and Denis Sergeev to claim the European Championship in 2008.
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