The 38-year-old Bulgarian mandatory challenger with only 1 loss on his recors is rumoured to earn around $5 million from the fight, which has been postponed due to the pandemic, having originally been scheduled for June 20 at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London and they are now looking more around end of July. Pulev told The German paper the Bild
“If necessary, I box without a spectator. Money comes in through pay-per-view earnings, ”
He has been an official challenger multiple times for the unified champion (IBF, WBO, WBA, IBO) since 2017. But a fight scheduled for October 2017 in Wales broke due to an abdominal muscle strain from Pulev. He had to cancel and forego the 2.25 million euro exchange. But even then he said: “Money is not everything. I want to be world champion! ”His trainer Ulli Wegner (77) said sincerely:“ Others would have got into the ring with one arm and cashed in.
Due to Pulev separating from the then coach Otto Ramin (66) and promoter Sauerland Event by buying himself out of his contract for 150,000 euros. The huge Joshua fight In front of 60,000 fans in London’s Tottenham Stadium, this will be his highest earnings of his career
But the Bulgarian will give up half of it. For Pulev it is already clear:
“I donate fifty percent to the tireless heroes in the fight against Corona. To nurses, nurses, hospitals and for the purchase of state-of-the-art medical equipment in the fight against the devilish virus. ”
A truly world-class idea!
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