Former WBA heavyweight champion Nikolai Valuev (46-1, 34 KOs) is set for his comeback fight against unbeaten Canadian Jean-Francois Bergeron (27-0, 19 KOs) on September 29th at the EWE-Arena, in Oldenburg, Germany. Valuev, 34, lost his WBA heavyweight title against challenger Ruslan Chagaev by majority decision in April 2007, a fight in which many people felt that Valuev had done more than enough to get the victory.

In fact, it was one of the worse decisions I’d witnessed in recent memory, particulary in point of fact that the most of the smaller six-foot Chagaev’s punches landed either on Valuev’s gloves or hit him in the chest, missing his head by as much as a foot due to Chagaev’s limited reach. In training for his fight with Bergeron, Valuev has decided to cast his long time coach Manuel Gabrielian overboard for new coach Alexander Zimin.