Anthony Joshua will fight Kubrat Pulev in December, according to the Brit's promoter Eddie Hearn. The WBA, WBO and IBF heavyweight king had been due to fight Pulev in June with Hearn now keen to delay the fight for a sufficient amount of time to hopefully allow fans to attend. "We know AJ's only going to fight once this year, so we want to give ourselves the best opportunity to bring in a crowd, and that would obviously be the later the better," Hearn told ESPN. "But it's still not a gimme at all.
There's still a very strong chance that AJ will have to fight behind closed doors." "Bearing in mind he's only going to fight once this year, I just feel as we might as well give ourselves every chance to have a crowd and that will be the first
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