Moses Itauma has been ordered by the WBA to face Kubrat Pulev for the 'regular' heavyweight world title.
Itauma has faced a conundrum over his next opponent ever since announcing he would return on December 13 alongside Derek Chisora.
A whole host of heavyweight top brass have rejected the fight including Filip Hrgovic and Jermaine Franklin.
Itauma even himself chose not to pursue the IBF ranking route, and rejected a world title eliminator against Frank Sanchez .
But now he has been offered a new route to undisputed champion Oleksandr Usyk .
The WBA have now ordered Itauma to face WBA regular champion Pulev, who currently holds the belt, with the official documentation obtained by esteemed boxing journalist Dan Rafael.
Michael Hunter has dropped out of the eliminator and as