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Pulev Secures Uneventful Decision Win Against Fury In Sofia

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Kubrat Pulev scored a an uneventful 12 round unanimous decision victory over Britain’s Hughie Fury in an IBF heavyweight final eliminator at the Arena Armeec in Sofia, Bulgaria on Saturday night.

 

At the age of 37, local favourite Pulev, 26-1-(13), pressed the action early on but because of an ugly clash of styles the fight never ignited into anything approaching a memorable spectacle for the fans and viewers watching from tv at home.      

 

Fury, 21-2-(11), was cut over the left eye in round two and to be fair it hampered him for the rest of the fight but Pulev, although, 13 years the senior, pulled ahead in the last quarter of the fight to land the cleaner punches and earn a deserved victory by scores of 117-111, 118-110 and 115-113.

 

Speaking after the fight, Fury said: “It wasn’t my night – the cut I suffered a few weeks ago opened up and it affected my performance. Despite that, I gave it my all, went the full twelve rounds and ran him close.

 

“It was a big ask for my fans to travel all this way and I want to thank them for coming out in force to show their support.”

 

Trainer and father, Peter Fury added: “Hughie came into the fight with a cut above the eye. He was stitched up two weeks ago but they [the doctors] said it would heal in time for the fight and obviously it didn’t.”

 

“Pulev caught him with a jab and split it right open. From that moment in the second round it was an uphill battle. I’m proud of my son – he was fighting on away soil, injured, yet he still went the full distance.”

 

“If the cut hadn’t happened we would have seen a different outcome.”

 

 

On the undercard, Hartlepool’s Savannah Marshall put on a dominant display to claim a unanimous decision victory over Argentina’s Yanina Orozco, and with it the Women’s WBA super-middleweight Intercontinental Championship strap.

 

Both women started the first round brightly, with Orozco catching Marshall in the opening exchanges. Marshall soon found her rhythm and the bout looked set for an early finish as Marshall felled her opponent in the opening stages of the second, only for Orozco to rise from the canvas before the count.

 

Marshall weathered something of an Orozco fightback in the sixth, but the Argentinian couldn’t muster the quality to seriously trouble her superior opponent.

 

In the final two rounds Marshall looked to finish off her opponent with some slick combinations and, in particular, a powerful uppercut that rocked her opponent in the tenth, but somehow Orozco stayed on her feet and saw out the round.

 

Having had her hand raised after the final bell, Savannah Marshall said: “I hadn’t seen much of her, just a short, little 30 second clip online, and she didn’t fight anything like that tonight. She was strong and I think she caught me with a couple of shots in the first round.

 

“I caught her in the second round and she went down, but she got back up and then after that she was just on the back foot, so then it was just me going for her. But, you know, I did the full 10 rounds, I feel like I could have done 12. I’m happy with it and I’ve got a belt.

 

“She was strong and she was present and I threw everything I had at her.

 

“It’s all the hard work paid off. I couldn’t be happier.”

 

 

 

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