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Nickolay Valuev
(the "Russian Giant")

BORN   August 21 1973; St. Petersburg, Russia
HEIGHT.. 7-0
WEIGHT 312 3/4-333 lbs
MANAGER Wilfried Sauerland
TRAINER Manuel Gabrielian

Valuev is a huge physical specimen and very strong; His strength stands him well against other heavyweights and enables him to take solid punches; His jab alone is a weapon; His punches tend to be a bit slow but his mammouth size wears down opponents; During his career, he has won the WBA Heavyweight Championship of the World, the Heavyweight Championship of Russia and the PAPA Heavyweight Championship

Nickolay has defeated such men as John Ruiz, Larry Donald, Dickie Ryan, Clifford Etienne, Gerald Nobles, Attila Levin, Paolo Vidoz, Owen Beck, Monte Barrett, Toakipa Tasefa, Richard Bango and Marcelo Fabian Dominquez

1993
Oct 15 John Morton                Berlin, Germany                    TK  2

1994
Feb 22 Alex Vassilev              St.Petersburg, Russia               W  4
Apr 15 Alexey Tzigankov           St.Petersburg, Russia              KO  3

1995
Feb 16 Sergey Anikeev             St.Petersburg, Russia              KO  2

1996
Oct  8 Neil Kirkwood              London, Eng                        TK  2
Nov 26 Darren Fearn               London, Eng                        TK  1

1997
Mar 21 Patrick Slade              Sydney, NSW, Aus                   TK  1
May  9 Manao Navuilawa            Sydney, NSW, Aus                   TK  1
May 31 Terrell Nelson             Atlantic City, NJ                  TK  2
Jul 26 Rodney Harris              Yokohama, Japan                     W  4
Aug 21 August Tanuvasa            Sydney, NSW, Aust                  TK  1
Sep 27 Kevin Rosier               Moscow, Russia                     KO  1
Nov  8 Alarim Uysal               Frankfurt, Germany                 TK  2
Dec  6 Sinclair Babb              Townsville, Que, Aus               TK  1

1998
Mar 14 Jim Huffman                Moscow, Russia                     TK  2
Jun  9 James Gaines               Moscow, Russia                      W  6
Dec 19 Evgueni Odolski            St.Petersburg, Russia              KO  1

1999
Jan 22 Alexei Osokin              St.Petersburg, Russia              TK  6
          -Heavyweight Championship of Russia
Feb 13 John Tupou                 Tokyo, Japan                       TK  4
May  7 Andreas Sidon              Prague, Czechoslovakia             NC  6
Jun 25 James McQueen              Prague, Czechoslovakia             KO  1
Dec 15 Alexei Varakin             St.Petersburg, Russia              KO  1
          -Heavyweight Championship of Russia

2000
Mar 10 Yury Nicolaev              Novosibirsk, Russia                TK  2
Jun  6 Youri Yelistratov          St. Petersburg, Russia              W 12
          -PABA Heavyweight Championship
Oct 29 Tone Fiso                  St. Petersburg, Russia             TK  1
          -PABA Heavyweight Championship

2001
Mar  6 Vitaly Shkraba             Moscow, Russia                     TK  4
Jun 30 George Linberger           Atlantic City, NJ                  TK  1
          -PABA Heavyweight Championship
Sep 28 Toakipa Tasefa             St.Petersburg, Russia               W 12
          -PABA Heavyweight Championship

2002
Jun 15 Yaroslav Zavorotny         Donetsk, Ukraine                   TK  3
Jul 21 Taras Bidenko              Seoul, Korea                        W 12
          -PABA Heavyweight Championship
Oct 10 Konstantin Prizyuk         St.Petersburg, Russia              TK  4
          -Heavyweight Championship of Russia

2003
Mar 15 Pedro Daniel Franco        St.Petersburg, Russia               W 12
          -PABA Heavyweight Championship
Jul 18 Vitaly Shkraba             Minsk, Belarus                     TK  4
Aug 16 Bob Mirovic                Nürburg, Germany                    W  8
Oct  4 Otis Tisdale               Zwickau, Germany                   KO  1

2004
Feb 28 Dickie Ryan                Dresden, Germany                   TK  1
Apr 17 Marcelo Fabian Dominguez   Berlin, Germany                     W  8
Jul 24 Richard Bango              Frankfurt, Germany                 TK  6
          -WBA Inter-Continental Heavyweight Championship
Oct  9 Paolo Vidoz                Erfurt, Germany                    TK  9
          -WBA Inter-Continental Heavyweight Championship
Nov 20 Gerald Nobles              Kempten, Germany                   WF  4
          -WBA Inter-Continental Heavyweight Championship

2005
Feb 12 Attila Levin               Berlin, Germany                    TK  3
May 14 Clifford Etienne           Bayreuth, Germany                  KO  3
Oct  1 Larry Donald               Oldenburg, Germany                  W 12
Dec 17 John Ruiz                  Berlin, Germany                     W 12
          -WBA Heavyweight Championship of the World

2006
Jun  3 Owen Beck                  Hanover, Germany                   TK  3
          -WBA Heavyweight Championship of the World
Oct  7 Monte Barrett              Rosemont, Il                       TK 11
          -WBA Heavyweight Championship of the World

2007
Jan 20 Jameel McCline             Basel, Switzerland                 TK  3
          -WBA Heavyweight Championship of the World
Apr 14 Ruslan Chagaev             Stuttgart, Germany                  L 12   
          -WBA Heavyweight Championship of the World
Sep 29 Jean-Francois Bergeron     Oldenburg, Germany                  W 12
          -NABA Heavyweight Championship

2008
Feb 16 Serguei Lyakhovich         Nuremberg, Germany                  W 12
          -WBA Heavyweight Championship of the World - Elimination Bout
Jul  5 Ruslan Chagaev             Hannover, Germany                 SCH   
          -WBA Heavyweight Championship of the World

Record courtesy of Tracy Callis, Historian, International Boxing Research Organization

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