{"id":214824,"date":"2025-10-15T12:52:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/214824\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T12:52:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:52:24","slug":"moses-itauma-to-fight-kubrat-pulev-for-wba-belt-as-20-year-old-targets-version-of-world-heavyweight-title-in-14th-bout-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/214824\/","title":{"rendered":"Moses Itauma to fight Kubrat Pulev for WBA belt as 20-year-old targets version of world heavyweight title in 14th bout | Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moses Itauma will fight for a WBA heavyweight belt after being ordered to challenge Kubrat Pulev.<\/p>\n<p>The unbeaten 20-year-old British challenger is targeting a version of the world title in just his 14th bout following his first-round knockout of Dillian Whyte in August.<\/p>\n<p>Pulev was initially ordered to make a WBA title defence against Michael Hunter, but they did not agree terms for the bout, and the Bulgarian must now face WBA No 1-ranked contender Itauma.<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" loading=\"lazy\" intrinsicsize=\"768x432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/skysports-kubrat-pulev-boxing_5597929.jpg\"   alt=\"Kubrat Pulev\" data-testid=\"article-image-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Image:<br \/>\n        Kubrat Pulev will defend his WBA title against Moses Itauma<\/p>\n<p>Undisputed champion Oleksandr Usyk holds the WBA &#8216;super&#8217; title, while Pulev claimed the WBA &#8216;regular&#8217; belt after a points victory over Mahmoud Charr last December.<\/p>\n<p>Pulev&#8217;s previous world title fight was in 2020, ending in a ninth-round knockout loss to Anthony Joshua.<\/p>\n<p>Itauma had been offered an IBF final eliminator against Cuban Frank Sanchez, with the winner earning a shot at Usyk&#8217;s IBF belt, but he has turned his attention to a WBA belt.<\/p>\n<p>Pulev and Itauma will now have 30 days to negotiate details of the bout and if no agreement is reached then the WBA will order a purse bid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moses Itauma will fight for a WBA heavyweight belt after being ordered to challenge Kubrat Pulev. The unbeaten&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-214824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}