Jarrell Miller vs. Michael Hunter | NETFLIX - 11 September 2025 (OFF)

[Ruthless-RKO]

I mean, I’m gonna blame Hunter. Who in this day and age signs with Don King

He may as well just fight Pulev.

[SeanBrennan]

I mean, I’m gonna blame Hunter. Who in this day and age signs with Don King

He may as well just fight Pulev.

I've always thought that, you KNOW you are going to get robbed in some way.

[joshj909]

Hunter vs Pulev then? Not sure where that leaves Miller, Wardley?

[Ruthless-RKO]

Hunter vs Pulev then? Not sure where that leaves Miller, Wardley?

I'd still like to see it.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Hunter vs Pulev then?

Apparently not..

Epic Sports takes control of Pulev’s title defense

On Thursday, Epic Sports & Entertainment, the official promoter of WBA World Heavyweight Champion Kubrat Pulev, confirmed the Pulev vs Hunter clash was dead.

The promotional company issued a damning statement aimed at Don King and the WBA, which had previously awarded King the purse bid.

“After months of dispute and uncertainty, justice has prevailed,” read the Epic Sports statement obtained by World Boxing News.

“Epic Sports & Entertainment, the official promoter of WBA World Heavyweight Champion Kubrat Pulev, announced today that it has successfully regained full control of Pulev’s first title defense following the invalidated purse bid previously ‘won’ by Don King Productions.

“On May 27, 2025, the World Boxing Association (WBA) awarded the purse bid promotional rights for Pulev’s mandatory defense against Michael Hunter to Don King Productions.

“However, prior to the purse bid, Epic Sports objected to Pulev being ordered to fight Hunter because Hunter was in a legal dispute with Don King Productions and had committed to fight on September 11, 2025.

“Following the recent confirmation of Hunter’s fight on September 11, 2025, against Jarrell Miller, as well as the continuing public disclosure of the legal dispute between Hunter and Don King Productions, the WBA has now agreed to rescind the purse bid award.

“In accordance with a signed settlement agreement between Pulev and the WBA, Pulev is no longer obliged to face Hunter and is cleared to make his first title defense against any ranked WBA contender on a voluntary basis.”

Gotzev, Pulev, and Wirt react

Ivaylo Gotzev, CEO of Epic Sports, declared the mess over.

“We are ecstatic that justice has prevailed. We worked tirelessly to achieve this outcome. The resolution made by the WBA restores clarity and allows us to finally start planning proper negotiations for Kubrat’s first title defense.

“The heavyweight division is wide open, and we are now in a position to stage a world-class event with renewed energy and excitement.”

Champion Kubrat Pulev added, “I’ve waited patiently while this situation played out, and now the path is clear. I am ready to defend my belt with honor before the end of 2025.

“The fans deserve a big fight, and I am motivated more than ever to deliver. I welcome all serious challengers who want to step into the ring with me.”

John Wirt, Chairman of Epic Sports, turned his fire on Don King.

“From the outset, we made clear that Hunter was in a legal dispute with Don King Productions and already committed to a September 11 fight, so the WBA should never have ordered a Pulev–Hunter purse bid.

“DKP’s press release attacking Pulev is baseless. Pulev simply exercised his right to due process under the WBA’s own rules, and the facts prevailed.”

Epic Sports has now thrown the door wide open to contenders, promoters, and broadcasters.

“With global broadcast opportunities and major event partnerships on the table, Epic Sports is committed to staging a fight that elevates both Pulev and the prestige of the WBA title,” their release concluded.

[joshj909]

Does anyone smell a Don King/WBA law suit mandating Hunter to fight for the title?

Also, Pulev's options: Wardley, Itauma, Miller, Pero, Bakole, Hrgovic, Pettigrew, Hysa, Allen, Charr, Gassiev, Huni, Pero, Toirac and Goodall. Some seriously bad opponents there. I think Miller, Huni, Bakole, Allen and Charr are least likely. I wouldn't be surprised by any of the others.

[margaret thatcher]

why does anyone come within 100 feet of don king these days

[Bobbyptsd]

why does anyone come within 100 feet of don king these days

I don't know, I can remember even back about 20 years ago when Daniel Santos held a title but was fighting once a year at best, people remarking on how it was a bad thing to be working with King, even back then.

[gilgamesh]

why does anyone come within 100 feet of don king these days

Yeah he hasn't had a noteworthy event in at least 20 years.

Plus. All the other laundry list of reasons not to associate with Don King , but hell even if it was just that top one, that's enough not to waste your time with someone that's irrelevant in the sport.

[Ruthless-RKO]

why does anyone come within 100 feet of don king these days

Yeah he hasn't had a noteworthy event in at least 20 years.

Oh, then you clearly missed the event he put on few years back in Florida. The great heavyweight clash between Bryan and Dubois. We had random anthems and 500 fans in attendance.

[Grilling Machine]

You say a few years but that happened in the 80s. Legendary production.

I didn't realise Jal was earning so well as an am. I thought he was doing a Teo Stevenson.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Jarrell Miller on collapse of Michael Hunter fight: ‘I should start suing people for defamation of character’

NEW YORK — Jarrell Miller has broken his silence after the collapse of his planned bout with Michael Hunter, saying it was issues with Hunter and not himself that led to the fight’s cancellation.

The fight was planned for September 11 at the Fontainebleu in Las Vegas, ahead of the September 13 super-fight between Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Terence Crawford in the same city. Miller tells BS that he believes it was Hunter’s contractual obligations to Don King, who won a purse bid for a WBA secondary heavyweight title fight between Michael Hunter and Kubrat Pulev, that was the reason for the contest being canned.

“We got the letter, it was the 19th I believe. And it says that due to legal situations that they don’t want to go forward with the fight. Basically the Don King situation. Now he's trying to say it’s because of VADA [Voluntary Anti-Doping Agency]. Listen, at this point, I might just start doing what the white folks do and start suing people for defamation of character because that's nowhere near the case,” said Miller, 26-1-2 (22 KOs).

Earlier in the month, Don King announced that he had a cease and desist order to the fight’s organizers, SELA and TKO Boxing, to prevent the Hunter-Miller fight from taking place. The fight was officially taken off the schedule on Thursday, when Miller posted an email he had received from California-based promoter Steven Bash, whom the heavyweight identified as someone aligned with the promotion. It cited "various unresolved legal and regulatory issues surrounding this proffered bout” for its cancellation. Hunter, 24-1-2 (17 KOs), took to social media to claim that it was Miller, and not King, who was to blame for the fight not happening. In an interview with DAZN’s Chris Mannix, Hunter said, “We’ve been told by several different guys, the attorneys and promoters over there that Big Baby had much bigger problems than Don King,” adding that “we’ve already handled the Don King situation.”

Miller has taken offense to Hunter’s handling of the fallout, saying that they had known each other for 15 years. He also states that drug testing wasn’t an issue.

“I’m in great talks with [VADA Chair] Dr. Margaret Goodman, we’re in good talks right now, I’ve been doing everything they’re asking me to do so for him to go on and say that, he's just trying to take away the story from what Don King is doing to him right now on to me, when I never turned down a fight. I never turned down any fight. Look at his last four opponents he fought compared to the last four opponents I fought. I fought three ex-champions, and I took fights on 30 days’ notice against better guys than him. So for him to come out and say that is just blasphemy,” said Miller.

“They wasn’t even paying me enough to fight Michael. I was doing that fight for the fans. I was doing that fight to show [Saudi Arabia boxing financier] Turki Alalshkikh that I’m loyal because he gave me two fights before that but unfortunately there’s certain people in boxing that don’t know boxing and the fight didn’t happen.”

Miller, whose career has stalled more than once due to failed drug tests, says he was accepted into the VADA testing pool on either August 17 or 18. BS reported on Thursday that an issue with the event was that Miller, who was suspended for failing a pre-fight drug test ahead of a canceled fight with Jerry Forrest in 2020, was required to submit clean drug tests 30, 15, and three days before the fight. Miller says he had been in communication with VADA’s Dr. Goodman, and waiting on securing a therapeutic use exemption for adderall, which he insists is prescribed to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder.

“I have to make sure I do the proper protocol,” said Miller, who hasn’t fought since last August when he drew with Andy Ruiz in an entertaining bout in Los Angeles on a card headlined by Terence Crawford vs. Israil Madrimov

“Communicate with Dr. Goodman, get to my doctor and see why I'm on this and what I'm doing. And that's all it was, a little bit of delay. Me, dealing with her part, and dealing with me, and talking to my doctors. There's no problems there, and a ton of fighters have done it before and are still going through the situation. But it's a process, a process that, if I knew years ago, a lot of stuff would never happen.”

Miller hasn’t let the fight’s cancellation keep him out of the gym. The 37-year-old heavyweight was at the Cops N Kids Gym in Brooklyn on Saturday morning, sparring several rounds with unbeaten heavyweight prospect Pryce Taylor, among others. He says he is already in discussions with his team about getting back in the ring before the end of the year. He says that, if he had his wish, the two fighters he’d like to get in the ring with are Anthony Joshua, whom he was scheduled to face for the unified heavyweight title in 2019 before the fight was nixed due to Miller failing pre-fight drug tests, and former WBC titleholder Deontay Wilder.

Miller says he and Wilder had previously been close friends, even turning to the former WBC heavyweight champion for advice on relationship issues, but says their friendship deteriorated due to “he said she said bullshit” involving Wilder and his former partner.

“I've always had love for Deontay, but like I said, I still want to punch you in the face because you're a champion. So based on that, that's the reason why we got beef, because I looked at you as somebody looked up to in the division, but you, in my brain, you kind of like fell off of that championship pedestal because you following a bird,” said Miller.

“It’s so funny now with the AJ situation, people say, ‘Yo, I hate AJ.’ No, I don't hate him. I kinda dislike him. I don't hate him. He's in a position so I'm gonna knock his head off. A missed opportunity. I still want to knock his head off. People are trying to say that Big Baby is doing this and that. I'm an entertainer, bro. I want to sell fights. I want to have entertaining fights. I want to do fun things together.”

[Ruthless-RKO]

[Glass Joe]

I think Miller should be AJ next fight.

1) got history so would sell well.
2) Miller bit of a punch bag