News - Nikolay Valuev

Adam Booth, manager and trainer of WBA heavyweight champion David Haye, says there is no agreement in place to fight WBC champion Vitali Klitschko. During some a recent interview with a Russian media outlet, Klitschko claimed to have reached an agreement to fight Haye in 2010 read more ...

The former WBA heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev shared his opinion on the upcoming bout between the owner of the WBC belt Vitali Klitschko and Kevin Johnson. The American used to be Valuev's sparring-partner, that's why he knows Johnson well enough. “When I was preparing for the bout with Monte Barrett I worked with Johnson in Chicago, - told Valuev to Blik newspaper read more ...

WBO/IBF/IBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko has kicked WBA champion David Haye to the curb. During a recent Sky Sports interview, Klitschko refused to discuss the possibility of a future unification scrap with Haye. Klitschko is still upset over Haye's withdrawal from their planned June fight. Haye later withdrew from a September clash with older brother WBC champion Vitali Klitschko read more ...

WBA heavyweight champion David Haye has to defend his title against mandatory challenger John Ruiz, but he still wants to fight the brothers who rule the division, WBO/IBF/IBO champion Wladimir Klitschko and the WBC chmapion Vitali Klitschko. Haye broke down the strenghts and weaknesses of both brothers read more ...

WBA heavyweight champion David Haye is celebrating his big win from Saturday night in Germany. He defied the odds and won a majority decision over the 7'2 Nikolai Valuev to capture the title; becoming the first British heavyweight since Lennox Lewis to win the world crown. Per the order of the WBA, Haye must now defend the title against mandatory challenger John Ruiz of Puerto Rico. Ruiz is former two-time WBA champion read more ...

David Haye captured the WBA heavyweight title with a majority twelve round decision over Nikolai Valuev at Arena Nuernberger Versicherung in Nuremberg, Germany. Haye said that he injured his right hand in the second or third round. The injury prevented him from throwing too many rights, so he tried to win the fight by moving more often and mostly using his left hand read more ...

After all the talk, all the bravado, 29-year former World Cruiserweight champion David Haye (23-0, 21 KO) of London, England elected to hit and run on the way to capturing his first major belt in the Heavyweight division, outpointing the 7’0 Russian Nicolay Valuev (50-2, 34 KO) for the WBA title over twelve largely uneventful rounds at the Arena Nürnberger in Nuremberg, Germany on Saturday night which added read more ...

John Ruiz 226 vs. Adnan Serin 214.5 Sergei Liakhovich 232.8 vs. Jeremy Bates 231.4 Robert Helenius 248.8 vs. Taras Bidenko 215.4 Alexander Frankel 193.4 vs. Kelvin Davis 196.2 Francisco Palacios 197.3 vs DeLeon Tinsley 200 read more ...

No postponements for this one. According to Sky Sports, David Haye officially took to the scales at the Mercado Shopping Centre in Nuremberg and weighed in at a shredded 218-pounds of cut muscle for his heavyweight title bout on Saturday night in Germany. WBA champion Nikolai Valuev was nearly 100-pounds larger, coming in at 315-pounds read more ...

The most interested spectator Saturday in Versicherung Arena for the WBA heavyweight title fight between defending Nikolai “The Russian Giant” Valuev and challenger David “The Haymaker” Haye will be former 2-time WBA title-holder John “The Quietman” Ruiz. Ruiz (43-8-1, 29 KOs), the WBA top contender, agreed with the promoters for Valuev and Haye to “step aside” as the WBA “Official Challenger read more ...