Kubrat Pulev

Kubrat Pulev is a heavyweight I have always seen as the durable European gatekeeper of his generation. The Bulgarian held the WBA heavyweight title in its regular version from 2024 to 2025 and twice won the European championship, which is no small feat in a brutal division. At 194 cm he uses his jab intelligently rather than chasing knockouts, and that craft kept him relevant for over a decade. His loss to Anthony Joshua showed his ceiling, but I respect a fighter who stayed at the elite level so long. The data mislabels him American, but he is Sofia-born and proudly Bulgarian throughout.

Name (English)

Kubrat Pulev

Name (Japanese)

クブラト・プレフ

Reading

くぶらと・ぷれふ

Born

May 4, 1981 (age 45)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Rooster

Origin

Sofia, Sofia City, Bulgaria

Height

194 cm

Occupation

boxer

Awards & achievements

• WBA World Heavyweight Champion (secondary)

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://www.kubratpulev.bg/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/kubratpulev/
• Xhttps://x.com/KubratPulevBG
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%97%E3%83%AC%E3%83%95

Tags

• Sofia City
• boxer

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.