Kubrat Pulev

Kubrat Venkov Pulev (b.March 4 1981) is a Bulgarian amateur boxer best known to medal repeatedly at international tournaments.

Career

Heavyweight with 201lbs/ 91kg limit

At the 2001 world championships he lost to Sultan Ibragimov.

In February 2002 Pulev won the "Strandya cup", the oldest international boxing tournament in Europe, in his native Bulgaria. Pulev, who is nicknamed "The Cobra", beat Cuban 201 lbs world champion Odlanier Solis in the process, one month later, however, he lost the rematch to the Cuban at the Semifinal of the "Chemiepokal cup". He could not participate at the Euros 2002 in Perm after breaking his arm in sparring.

At the World Championships 2003 he lost in the first round to old foe Solís 7:12.

At the European boxing championships 2004 in Pula he defeated world class Alexander Povernov (World Championships Bronze medalist 2005). Pulev didn't qualify for the Olympics despite the fact that he won the last qualifying tournament in Gothenburg, had to settle for the first reserve place, because the heavyweight division has only 16 fighters participating in Olympic Games (other weight divisions has 48-81)

uper Heavyweight

He beat Islam Timurziev at super heavyweight at the Strandya Cup 2005. At the so-called EU Championships he lost the final 18:24 to Italian southpaw Roberto Cammarelle, at the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships he also won bronze again losing for the third time to Solis 11:25.

2006 at the Chemiepokal he beat Vyacheslav Glazkov‎ and Magomed Abdusalamov.He finished at third place at the European Championships in Plovdiv. After defeating Glazkov again he was easily beaten (RSCO) by former victim and eventual winner Islam Timurziev of Russia.

In 2007 he won the Chemiepokal tournament and was regarded as one of the favorites at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships but had a bad draw and lost early to southpaw Olympic bronze medalist and eventual winner Roberto Cammarelle.

In 2008 he won the Strandya Cup once again beating PanAm Champion Robert Alfonso 19:9.

He beat Jaroslavas Jakšto and ‎ to qualify for the Olympics 2008.There he was upset in his first bout by young Colombian Oscar Rivas.