{"id":19413,"date":"2019-10-08T07:01:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T07:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/?p=19413"},"modified":"2019-10-08T07:01:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T07:01:04","slug":"de-mori-out-booker-in-against-pulev-november-9th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/?p=19413","title":{"rendered":"De Mori out, Booker in against Pulev November 9th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><small>Photo by Stu Forster\/Getty Images<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Pulev remains the IBF mandatory heavyweight challenger<\/p>\n<p>Good news! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/2019\/9\/23\/20880352\/kubrat-pulev-mark-de-mori-likely-november-9th-herring-roach-espn-boxing\">Kubrat Pulev won&rsquo;t be fighting Mark De Mori<\/a> on the November 9th Jamel Herring-Lamont Roach Jr. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/blhtoprank\">ESPN+<\/a> show in Fresno. Bad news! The new matchup still kinda sucks. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/espn\/now?nowId=21-41079886-4\">ESPN reports that Pulev has &ldquo;verbally agreed&rdquo; to face former amateur standout Rydell Booker after the De Mori deal &ldquo;fell apart.&rdquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Booker (26-2, 13 KO) started his pro career in 2001, winning  his first 22 bouts before running afoul of a red-hot James Toney who was coming off of wins over Vassily Jirov and Evander Holyfield. He subsequently spent over a decade in prison, only returning to the ring last year. Now 38, he&rsquo;s gone 4-1 in his comeback, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/2019\/4\/13\/18309870\/jermaine-franklin-takes-unanimous-decision-over-rydell-booker\">most notably dropping a decision to kinda-sorta-not-really prospect Jermaine Franklin in April<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He&rsquo;s still a more palatable option than never-was De Mori, even if he doesn&rsquo;t figure to be more than a stay-busy foe while Pulev (27-1, 14 KO) waits for Andy Ruiz Jr. and Anthony Joshua to settle their differences.<\/p>\n<p><ins class=\"adbladeads\" data-cid=\"25014-4024605408\" data-host=\"web.adblade.com\" data-tag-type=\"4\" style=\"display:none\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script async src=\"http:\/\/web.adblade.com\/js\/ads\/async\/show.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Stu Forster\/Getty Images Pulev remains the IBF mandatory heavyweight challenger Good news! Kubrat Pulev won&rsquo;t be fighting Mark De Mori on the November 9th Jamel Herring-Lamont Roach Jr. ESPN+ show in Fresno. Bad news! The new matchup still kinda sucks. ESPN reports that Pulev has &ldquo;verbally agreed&rdquo; to face former amateur standout Rydell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}