Nikolai Valuev Boxing News

By Erik Schmidt: Former WBA heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev (50-2, 34 KO’s) is willing to take the fight with World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (39-2, 37 KO’s) for the $2.5 million that he’s offering him, according to German news outlet Bild. Valuev says “Yes, I want to box against Vitali. This is an [...]

By Erik Schmidt: Promoter Kalle Sauerland says that the fight between WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (39-2, 37 KO’s) and former World Boxing Association heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev (50-2, 34 KO’s) needs to happen.
In an interview at Rp-online.de, Sauerland said “As a promoter and as a boxing fans, I’m saying this fight [Klitschko-Valuev] needs [...]

By Erik Schmidt: According to German news site Bild, World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (39-2, 37 KO’s) won’t be facing former WBA heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev (50-2, 34 KO’s). The two fighters were in negotiations for a fight, but Valuev’s management wanted $4 million for the seven-foot Valuev to fight Klitschko. The manager [...]

By Erik Schmidt: The proposed fight between World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko and two-time WBA heavyweight champ Nikolay Valuev has reached an impasse in the negotiations over the money for the fight. Klitschko and his team have offered Valuev an initial $1 million for the fight and then come up to $2 million [...]

Don King Productions and Sauerland Event have countered K2 Promotions latest offer to former two-time World Boxing Association heavyweight champion Nikolai “Giant Russian” Valuev (50-2, 34 KOs) to face World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (39-2, 37 KOs) with a deal calling for a 60-40 percentage split.

By Erik Schmidt: World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (39-2, 37 KO’s) and his management team have made their final offer to former two-time WBA heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev (50-2, 34 KO’s) of $2 million, according to the latest news. Apparently, the 36-year-old Valuev and his co-promoter Don King have a week to accept [...]

By Chris Williams: I for one could care less about the April 3rd fight between Bernard Hopkins (50-5-1, 32 KO’s) and Roy Jones Jr. (50-6, 40 KO’s). I hear the fight is going to be on HBO pay-per-view, and I can only imagine the kind of numbers it will bring in as far as PPV [...]

By Chris Williams: According to news from Sports.ru, World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (39-2, 37 KO’s) could be facing former WBA heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev (50-2, 34 KO’s) in his next title defense. This is a fight that will be a popular one in Europe, where the 36-year-old Valuev remains a popular fighter [...]

By Adam Fillingham: I have a lot of friends that enjoy a good boxing match up. So, we have a lot of discussion and this week was the turn of the heavyweight match up between World Boxing Council champion Vitali Kltschko and former WBA champion Nikolay Valuev. Most of the group have predicted an easy [...]

By Peter Wells: According to boxingscene .com, World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko vs Nikolay Valuev could be happening in April or May. This fight has been mentioned for quite a while now, but finally it looks like we could be looking at a fight of the giants.

By Sean McDaniel: World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (39-2, 37 KO’s) has big goals in 2010, and wants fights against WBA heavyweight champion David Haye and former WBA title holder Russian Nikolay Valuev, according to news from the Ukrainian site NRCU. However, Vitali, 38, sees the fight with Valuev as the the [...]

By Erik Schmidt: According to news from the Bild Zeitung, World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (39-2, 37 KO’s) could be facing former WBA heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev (50-2, 34 KO’s) next in either April or May 2010. This is a bout that the 38-year-old Klitschko likely wants due to the interest that this [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Former World Boxing Organization super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe had a few thoughts on the dull bout between WBA heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev and British heavyweight David Haye, saying in the Southwalesargus “I don’t think you can really blame Haye [for the boring fight] for that. Valuev is absolutely awful, a poor [...]

By Jason Kim: After losing his World Boxing Association heavyweight title last Saturday night by a 12 round majority decision to David Haye, big Nikolay Valuev (50-2, 34 KO’s) finds himself in the uncomfortable position of having to rebuild his career once again to try and claw his way back to another title shot against [...]

By Adam Fillingham: David Haye the new WBA world heavyweight champion defeated 7ft Nikolay Valuev on Saturday to make world history in beating the tallest ever world champion, by a majority decision. What I could not understand though is how the first judge, Juan Manuel Garcia Reyes could have scored the fight 114-114.

By Alex Miles: On Saturday night David Haye performed a service to the heavyweight division by stripping a large unskilled fighter of his title in a tight and uninteresting bout.
Many people are criticizing Haye for his hit and run tactics, exclaiming that this fight proves that he’s a worthless commodity; that for all his bragging [...]

By Andrew Muldoon: David Haye scored a points win in Nuremberg on Saturday night to snatch the World Boxing Association strap from the clutches of Nicolai Valuev. After speaking with my most knowledgeable friends and also nosing at the banter on the many boxing forums, I see there is mixed feelings towards what happened in [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: In an article in The Sun, World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko had some sobering news for newly crowned WBA heavyweight champion David Haye, saying “I’ll fight him at any time and knock him out”. Full congratulations to Haye. It was a good performance, a good points win. It was very [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: British heavyweight David Haye (23-1, 21 KO’s) defeated World Boxing Association heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev (50-2, 34 KO’s) by a 12 round majority decision last night to take Valuev’s WBA title at the Arena Numberger Versicherung, in Nuremberg, Germany. The final judges’ scores were 116-112, 114-114 and 116-112. I had the fight [...]

By Dennis Broadhurst: Just to let people know that I do like David Haye and I wish him all the best in his career. Noticing a lot of comments on my last article saying that Haye’s dancing and constant moving techniques were because he was fighting such a larger man made me think, they made [...]

By Peter Wells: So there was no big knockout, no Haye wearing out down the stretch, just a good, not particularly exciting but a fight that kept you on edge. Despite the doubts Haye out boxed Valuev for 12 rounds straight despite only winning a majority decision. Haye may have fought at a slower pace, [...]

By Dennis Broadhurst: After watching Haye win a twelve round decision last night over Valuev I was hardly inspired. Haye just ran and ran and only hit Valuev about three times every round. Valuev himself showed how bad he is, how little power he has and proved how boring he is. Haye showed good head [...]

By Alan Dawson: The fanfaronade spat by David Haye, 29, throughout the build-up to his WBA challenge on champion heavyweight Nikolai Valuev, 36, has directly affected the mindset of fans in Haye’s home country.

By Scott Gilfoid: On Saturday night, I’m afraid that David Haye and his inflated ego are going to be grounded by the big seven foot Russian WBA heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev when they get it on in Nuremburg, Germany. Haye may have the speed and power advantage in this fight, but he’s two very important [...]

By Sean McDaniel: British heavyweight David Haye came in at a svelte 218 pounds for his title match against WBA heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev on Saturday night at the Arena Nürnberger Versicherung, Nuremberg (Nürnberg), Bayern, Germany. In terms of past fights during Valuev’s boxing career, he’s always very well against heavyweights that have come in [...]

By William Mackay: A chunky looking Ricky Hatton added his own two cents to who things will win Saturday night’s contest between World Boxing Association heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev (50-1, 34 KO’s) and challenger David Haye by picking the 29-year-old Haye to win the fight by knock out.

By Jason Kim: David Haye (22-1, 21 KO’s) weighed in at a light 218 pounds at today’s weigh-in at the Marcado Shopping Centre in Nuremberg, Germany. This is around the ballpark figure that many boxing insiders thought that Haye would come in for this fight. Haye has said that he didn’t want to gain a [...]

By William Mackay: David Haye might as pack it in with his never ending insults of World Boxing Association heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev. Haye’s comments haven’t stirred Valuev to life, and the big 7-foot Russian doesn’t appear angry or in the mood to go out and destroy Haye next Saturday night in Nuremburg, Germany. Haye, [...]

By William Mackay: Former David Haye opponent, Monte Barrett, is picking World Boxing Association heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev to beat British heavyweight David Haye (22-1, 21 KO’s) this Saturday night in their title fight in Nuremburg, Germany, according to Boxing News. Barrett, 38, has fought both Haye and Valuev, and has been stopped by both [...]

By Kwame Cinquez: David Haye, the former cruiserweight champion, has referred to his opponent as a ‘Beast’, ‘Freak’, ‘The ugliest thing I have ever seen’, posed with cardboard cut-outs of the fighter then to decapitate the cardboard replica. Whilst all this has been done in the Muhammad Ali style of pre-fight hype (Trash talk), [...]