Former light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev (34-4-1, 29 KOs) will move up to cruiserweight to face Tervel Pulev (16-0, 13 KOs) on May 14 at the Forum in Los Angeles and be streamed live worldwide via PPV or the TrillerVerz subscription on FITE.
This is 38-year-old Kovalev’s first fight since facing Canelo Alvarez in November 2019.
Pulev, the 2012 bronze medalist at the Olympic Games, is the younger brother of two-time heavyweight world title challenger Kubrat ‘The Cobra’ Pulev (28-2, 14 KOs), who will clash with Andrey Fedosov (32-3, 26 KOs) over ten rounds in the co-feature.
Also featured on the undercard are junior middleweight Evan ‘Yung Holy’ Holyfield (9-0, 6 KOs) in a scheduled six-rounder, and junior middleweight Fernando ‘El Feroz’ Vargas Jr. (5-0, 5 KOs), featherweight Amado ‘El Malvado’ Vargas (3-0, 2 KOs) and pro-debuting lightweight Emiliano Vargas, who all compete in four-rounders.
Evan is the son on Evander Holyfield, and the other three are sons of three-time junior middleweight world champion Fernando ‘El Feroz’ Vargas.
Boxing will be followed by a to be announced Verzuz battle.
Credit: Fightnews
