Nikolai Sergeevich Valuev

Nikolai Valuev
Nikolai Valuev (2018)
Data
Birth Name	Nikolai Sergeevich Valuev
Fight name	The Russian Giant, The Beast from the East
Weight class	Heavyweight
nationality	Russian
birthday	August 21, 1973
place of birth	Leningrad , RSFSR
style	Left delivery
size	2.13 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	53
Victories	50
Knockout victories	34
Defeats	2
No value	1
Profile in the BoxRec database

Nikolai Valuev ( Russian Николай Сергеевич Валуев , English transcription Nikolay Valuev * 21st August 1973 in Leningrad , Russian SFSR ) is a retired Russian professional boxer and former world champion of the WBA in heavy weight .

Life

Valujew, who began his sporting career as a basketball player and discus thrower , is officially 2.13 m long and weighing up to 150 kg, making him the largest and heaviest heavyweight world champion ever. He has shoe size 52. According to his own information, his height at the age of twelve was already 1.96 m. After graduating from high school, he studied sports at the University of St. Petersburg without a degree.

Valuev is married to Galina Borisovna Valueva (nee Dimitrova). The couple has three children. He lives with his family in Saint Petersburg, but also in Berlin for about five months a year. He names off-road driving, fishing, hunting and reading as hobbies.

Together with the sports journalist Konstantin Ossipow he published his autobiography in 2007 with the title "Meine Twelve Rounds". Valuev also starred in the films 7 dwarfs - The forest is not enough , with Kamennaya bashka and Put .

Since December 2011, Valuyev has been a member of the Russian Duma of the ruling United Russia party .

amateur

Valuev only started boxing at the age of 20. He had only a short amateur career with less than 15 fights. He took part in the Goodwill Games in Saint Petersburg in 1994 , but lost to his compatriot Alexei Lesin in the first fight . He also managed a second place in the Russian championships.

Professional career

Valujew played his first professional fight on October 15, 1993 in Berlin . Seriously, d. H. with regular fights, however, he did not begin his career until the end of 1996, at that time for Klaus-Peter Kohl's Universum boxing promotion . In January 1999 he won the title of Russian heavyweight champion. In the same year he played a fight against Andreas Sidon in Prague , which was not valued. In 2002 he defeated Taras Bidenko in Seoul on points.

Walujew has been part of the boxing stable of promoter Wilfried Sauerland since 2003 . Since 2004 he has defeated the former WBC cruiserweight title holder Marcelo Domínguez , the Nigerian silver medalist at the 1992 Olympic Games Richard Bango , Paolo Vidoz , the then undefeated Americans Gerald Nobles , Attila Levin and Clifford Etienne .

At the World Championship elimination match of the WBA , Valujew boxed himself on October 1, 2005 in Oldenburg against Larry Donald, the mandatory challenger position by a controversial victory with 114: 114, 117: 112 and 114: 113 points.

By a tight and also controversial point victory against the title holder John Ruiz in the Berlin Max-Schmeling-Halle Walujew was able to secure the heavyweight world champion title according to the version of the WBA on December 18, 2005 . Ruiz was not listed as number one in any independent trade magazine and was considered a pupil of Don King .

His first title defense he succeeded on June 3, 2006 in Hanover by technical knockout in the third round against Owen Beck , also a protégé of Don King. On October 7, 2006, Valuev defended his belt against Monte Barrett by technical knockout in the eleventh round in Chicago , Illinois (USA) . In the following, held in the Basel St. Jakobshalle , heavyweight world championship fight, he defended his heavyweight championship on January 20, 2007 against Jameel McCline , who had to give up the fight prematurely because of a knee injury. At the end of the third round, the American fell to the ground after jumping out a kneecap. With a combined weight of 268 kg, the title defense was the heaviest title fight in the history of professional boxing.

Nikolai Valujew is defeated by Ruslan Chagayev .

Valuev - Chagayev

On April 14, 2007 Valuev lost the first compulsory defense of his title against the still unbeaten Uzbek boxer Ruslan Chagayev in the Porsche Arena in Stuttgart in an even fight on points, his first defeat in 48 professional fights. Thereupon he separated from his long-time trainer Manuel Gabrielian and in June 2007 hired Alexander Simin as the new trainer.

More fights

His first fight after losing the WBA title he won on September 29, 2007 in Oldenburg against the French-Canadian Jean-François Bergeron, who was undefeated in 27 professional fights, unanimously on points. As already against Donald and against Ruiz, this judgment of the judges is also considered controversial, which this time related in particular to the height of the point victory. Valuev was ahead on two scoring slips with seven points each and on the third with six points. Henry Maske , who acts as an ARD boxing expert, criticized the height of the point victory in front of the cameras.

On February 17, 2008 Valujew won in Nuremberg superior an elimination match of the WBA federation against the former WBO world champion Sjarhej Lyachowitsch and thus secured another world championship chance. The rematch against Chagayev was supposed to take place in Oberhausen on May 31, but was postponed to July 5, 2008 due to Chagayev's illness. When Chagayev suffered an Achilles tendon rupture a week before the match and could not meet his statutory defense because of this serious and protracted injury, the Uzbeks were stripped of the WBA title. Instead, Chagayev received the status of a "Champion in recess" (world champion waiting), which enabled him to challenge the then reigning WBA world champion until June 26, 2009.

Second World Cup against Ruiz

The WBA then ordered a fight for the vacant WBA heavyweight title between Nikolai Valujew and John Ruiz , which took place on August 30, 2008 in Berlin. Valujew won this fight and became WBA heavyweight world champion for the second time. First a victory was announced with 2-1 judges votes, which was then corrected to 3-0, as WBA supervisor Bob Mack had accidentally awarded the score of the Japanese judges' twelfth round to Ruiz instead of Valuev. At the protest of the Japanese judge, the rating was subsequently corrected.

His last title defense, which he won on points (114: 114 116: 112 115: 114), Valujew denied on December 20, 2008 in Zurich against the 46-year-old ex-world champion Evander Holyfield . After numerous protests, the WBA announced on December 29, 2008 that it would review the verdict.

Next, Valuyev would again face Ruslan Chagayev to determine the sole WBA world champion. The Uzbek had recovered from the Achilles tendon rupture and was now able to successfully contest a fight against Carl Davis Drumond . The fight was scheduled for May 30, 2009 in Helsinki , but the third schedule was also canceled the day before the fight. The reason for this was Chagayev's hepatitis B illness, which he had suffered from for several years and which, according to Finnish law, is a possible risk of infection. Because of this, the Finnish Boxing Association refused him permission to fight in Finland.

A week later, Valuyev received an offer to compete against IBF , IBO and WBO world champion Wladimir Klitschko . The reason for this was that Klitschko's fight against David Haye, which was scheduled for June 20, 2009 in the Veltins-Arena, was canceled due to an injury to the Briton and a high-class replacement opponent was sought; because 57,000 tickets had already been sold, the organizer did not want to cancel the fight evening. Valuev did not want to adjust to another opponent within two weeks and turned down the offer.

Loss of WBA title to Haye

After the former British cruiserweight world champion David Haye had also canceled a planned fight against WBC world champion Vitali Klitschko due to differences of opinion regarding the contract, Hayes management then tried to organize a fight against Nikolai Valujew. Valuev's promotion company Sauerland Event agreed. Valuev lost the fight against David Haye on November 7, 2009 on points (114: 114,112: 116,112: 116).

End of career

Valuev's contract with his doctoral company expired at the end of 2011 and was not renewed. According to his own statements, he no longer has time for sport in addition to his political commitment.

List of professional fights

date		opponent	Result	Type	Round	place
Oct 15, 1993		John Morton	victory	TKO	2	Berlin , Germany
Feb 22, 1994		Alexander Vasilyev	victory	Point decision	4th	St. Petersburg , Russia
Apr 15, 1994		Alexei Zygankov	victory	KO	3	St. Petersburg , Russia
Feb 16, 1995		Sergei Anikeyev	victory	KO	3	St. Petersburg , Russia
0Oct 8, 1996		Neil Kirkwood	victory	TKO	2	London , UK
Nov 26, 1996		Darren Fearn	victory	TKO	1	London , UK
21 Mar 1997		Patrick Slade	victory	TKO	1	Sydney , Australia
0May 9, 1997		Manao Navuilawa	victory	TKO	1	Sydney , Australia
May 31, 1997		Terrell Nelson	victory	TKO	2	Atlantic City, New Jersey , USA
July 26, 1997		Rodney Harris	victory	Point decision	4th	Yokohama , Japan
27 Sep 1997		Kevin Rosier	victory	KO	1	Moscow , Russia
Oct 11, 1997		August Tanuvasa	victory	TKO	1	Sydney , Australia
0Nov 8, 1997		Alarim Uysal	victory	TKO	2	Frankfurt am Main , Germany
0Dec 6, 1997		Sinclair Babb	victory	TKO	1	Townsville , Australia
14 Mar 1998		Jim Huffman	victory	TKO	2	Moscow , Russia
0June 9, 1998		James Gaines	victory	Decision (unanimous)	6th	Moscow , Russia
Dec 19, 1998		Yevgeny Odolski	victory	KO	1	St. Petersburg , Russia
Jan. 22, 1999		Alexei Osokin	victory	TKO	6th	St. Petersburg , Russia
Feb 13, 1999		John Tupou	victory	TKO	4th	Tokyo , Japan
0May 7, 1999		Andreas Sidon	Invalid	("No Contest")	6th	Prague , Czech Republic
June 25, 1999		James McQueen	victory	KO	1	Prague , Czech Republic
Dec 15, 1999		Alexei Warakin	victory	KO	1	St. Petersburg , Russia
10 Mar 2000		Yuri Nikolayev	victory	TKO	2	Novosibirsk , Russia
0June 6, 2000		Yuri Yelistratov	victory	Decision (unanimous)	12	St. Petersburg , Russia
Oct 29, 2000		Clay fiso	victory	TKO	1	St. Petersburg , Russia
06th Mar 2001		Vitali Shkraba	victory	TKO	4th	Moscow , Russia
June 30, 2001		George Linberger	victory	TKO	1	Atlantic City, New Jersey , USA
28 Sep 2001		Toakipa Tasefa	victory	Decision (unanimous)	12	St. Petersburg , Russia
June 15, 2002		Yaroslav Zavorotny	victory	TKO	3	Donetsk , Ukraine
July 21, 2002		Taras Bidenko	victory	Decision (unanimous)	12	Seoul , South Korea
Oct 10, 2002		Konstantin Prisjuk	victory	TKO	7th	St. Petersburg , Russia
15th Mar 2003		Pedro Daniel Franco	victory	Decision (unanimous)	12	St. Petersburg , Russia
July 18, 2003		Vitali Shkraba	victory	TKO	4th	Minsk , Belarus
Aug 16, 2003		Bob Mirovic	victory	Decision (unanimous)	8th	Nuerburg , Germany
0Oct. 4, 2003		Otis Tisdale	victory	KO	1	Zwickau , Germany
Feb 28, 2004		Dicky Ryan	victory	TKO	1	Dresden , Germany
Apr 17, 2004		Marcelo Fabian Dominguez	victory	Decision (unanimous)	8th	Berlin , Germany
July 24, 2004		Richard Bango	victory	TKO	6th	Frankfurt (Oder) , Germany
0Oct 9, 2004		Paolo Vidoz	victory	TKO	9	Erfurt , Germany
Nov 20, 2004		Gerald Nobles	victory	disqualification	4th	Kempten , Germany
Feb 12, 2005		Attila Levin	victory	TKO	3	Berlin , Germany
May 14, 2005		Clifford Etienne	victory	KO	3	Bayreuth , Germany
0Oct 1, 2005		Larry Donald	victory	Decision (majority)	12	Oldenburg , Germany
Dec 17, 2005		John Ruiz	victory	Decision (majority)	12	Berlin , Germany
0July 3, 2006		Owen Beck	victory	TKO	3	Hanover , Germany
0Oct 7, 2006		Monte Barrett	victory	TKO	11	Rosemont , USA
Jan. 20, 2007		Jameel McCline	victory	task	3	Basel , Switzerland
Apr 14, 2007		Ruslan Chagayev	defeat	Decision (majority)	12	Stuttgart , Germany
29 Sep 2007		Jean-François Bergeron	victory	Decision (unanimous)	12	Oldenburg , Germany
Feb 16, 2008		Syarhej Lyachowitsch	victory	Decision (unanimous)	12	Nuremberg , Germany
Aug 30, 2008		John Ruiz	victory	Decision (unanimous)	12	Berlin , Germany
Dec 20, 2008		Evander Holyfield	victory	Decision (majority)	12	Zurich , Switzerland
0Nov 7, 2009		David Haye	defeat	Decision (majority)	12	Nuremberg , Germany

Web links

• German website by Nikolai Valujew
• Nikolai Valujew in the BoxRec database
• Brief portrait at Sauerland

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A weighty business. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . December 13, 2006, accessed March 29, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Boxer Valujew is now a member of the Russian Duma. In: Medvedev magazine. December 29, 2011, accessed September 4, 2014 . 
3. ↑ 1994 Goodwill Games Results Boxing. In: GoodwillGames.com. Retrieved September 4, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Valuev victory: Boxing association announces new verdict after protests. In: Spiegel Online. January 2, 2009, accessed September 4, 2014 . 
5. ^ WBA to look at heavyweight title bout. In: ESPN Boxing. The Associated Press, December 30, 2008, accessed September 4, 2014 . 
6. ↑ http://sport.rtl.de/sportartikel/boxen/boxen_825_1331029.php
7. ↑ Haye breaks the Klitschko fight. In: Sport1.de. July 23, 2009, accessed September 4, 2014 . 
8. ↑ Professional boxing: Ex-world champion Valujew ends his career. In: Spiegel Online . February 17, 2012, accessed September 4, 2014 . 

predecessor	Office	successor
John Ruiz	Heavyweight Boxing Champion ( WBA ) December 18, 2005 to April 14, 2007	Ruslan Chagayev
Ruslan Chagayev	Heavyweight Boxing Champion ( WBA ) August 30, 2008 to November 7, 2009	David Haye