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Total Fights | 53 |
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Wins | 50 |
Losses | 2 |
Draws | 0 |
No-Contests | 1 |
Title Wins | 2 |
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Title Defenses | 4 |
Title-Fight KOs | 3 |
KO Wins | 34 |
KO Losses | 0 |
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In a professional boxing career spanning 16 years, Nikolai Valuev fought 53 times with 50 wins, 2 losses, and 1 no-contest.
Valuev retired from professional boxing with a record of 50-2, which included two heavyweight world-title wins and four successful title defense fights. He had a 65.4% knockouts-to-fights ratio with 34 of his total 53 fights being knockout wins, three of which were in title fights. Valuev never lost via knockout.
His last fight was a 12-round majority decision defeat to David Haye on November 7, 2009. Valuev lost the heavyweight WBA title to Haye in this fight.
Some of Valuev's best fights and notable victories include wins over Hall-of-Famer Evander Holyfield, Owen Beck, Jameel McCline, John Ruiz, Jean Francois Bergeron, Siarhei Liakhovich, and Attila Levin.
# | Date | Age | Opponent | Res | Via |
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53 | Nov 7, 2009 | 36 | David Haye | Loss * | MD |
52 | Dec 20, 2008 | 35 | Evander Holyfield | Win * | MD |
51 | Aug 30, 2008 | 35 | John Ruiz | Win * | UD |
50 | Feb 16, 2008 | 34 | Siarhei Liakhovich | Win | UD |
49 | Sep 29, 2007 | 34 | Jean Francois Bergeron | Win | UD |
48 | Apr 14, 2007 | 33 | Ruslan Chagaev | Loss * | MD |
47 | Jan 20, 2007 | 33 | Jameel McCline | Win * | RTD3 |
46 | Oct 7, 2006 | 33 | Monte Barrett | Win * | TKO11 |
45 | Jun 3, 2006 | 32 | Owen Beck | Win * | TKO3 |
44 | Dec 17, 2005 | 32 | John Ruiz | Win * | MD |
43 | Oct 1, 2005 | 32 | Larry Donald | Win | MD |
42 | May 14, 2005 | 31 | Clifford Etienne | Win | KO3 |
41 | Feb 12, 2005 | 31 | Attila Levin | Win | TKO3 |
40 | Nov 20, 2004 | 31 | Gerald Nobles | Win | DQ |
39 | Oct 9, 2004 | 31 | Paolo Vidoz | Win | TKO9 |
38 | Jul 24, 2004 | 30 | Richard Igbineghu | Win | TKO6 |
37 | Apr 17, 2004 | 30 | Marcelo Domínguez | Win | UD |
36 | Feb 28, 2004 | 30 | Dicky Ryan | Win | TKO1 |
35 | Oct 4, 2003 | 30 | Otis Tisdale | Win | KO1 |
34 | Aug 16, 2003 | 29 | Bob Mirovic | Win | UD |
33 | Jul 18, 2003 | 29 | Vitali Shkraba | Win | TKO4 |
32 | Mar 15, 2003 | 29 | Pedro Daniel Franco | Win | UD |
31 | Oct 10, 2002 | 29 | Kostiantyn Pryziuk | Win | RTD3 |
30 | Jul 21, 2002 | 28 | Taras Bidenko | Win | UD |
29 | Jun 15, 2002 | 28 | Yaroslav Zavorotnyi | Win | TKO3 |
28 | Sep 28, 2001 | 28 | Toakipa Tasefa | Win | UD |
27 | Jun 30, 2001 | 27 | George Linberger | Win | TKO1 |
26 | Mar 6, 2001 | 27 | Vitali Shkraba | Win | TKO4 |
25 | Oct 29, 2000 | 27 | Tone Fiso | Win | TKO1 |
24 | Jun 6, 2000 | 26 | Yuriy Yelistratov | Win | UD |
23 | Mar 10, 2000 | 26 | Yuri Nikolaev | Win | TKO2 |
22 | Dec 15, 1999 | 26 | Aleksei Varakin | Win | KO1 |
21 | Jun 25, 1999 | 25 | James McQueen | Win | KO1 |
20 | May 7, 1999 | 25 | Andreas Sidon | NC | NC |
19 | Feb 13, 1999 | 25 | John Tupou | Win | TKO4 |
18 | Jan 22, 1999 | 25 | Aleksei Osokin | Win | TKO6 |
17 | Dec 19, 1998 | 25 | Evgeny Odolsky | Win | KO1 |
16 | Jun 9, 1998 | 24 | James Gaines | Win | UD |
15 | Mar 14, 1998 | 24 | Jim Huffman | Win | TKO2 |
14 | Dec 6, 1997 | 24 | Sinclair Babb | Win | TKO1 |
13 | Nov 8, 1997 | 24 | Alarim Uysal | Win | TKO2 |
12 | Sep 27, 1997 | 24 | Kevin Rosier | Win | KO1 |
11 | Aug 21, 1997 | 24 | Aug Tanuvasa | Win | TKO1 |
10 | Jul 26, 1997 | 23 | Rodney Harris | Win | PTS |
9 | May 31, 1997 | 23 | Terrell Nelson | Win | TKO2 |
8 | May 9, 1997 | 23 | Manao Navuilawa | Win | TKO1 |
7 | Mar 21, 1997 | 23 | Patrick Slade | Win | TKO1 |
6 | Nov 26, 1996 | 23 | Darren Fearn | Win | RTD1 |
5 | Oct 8, 1996 | 23 | Neil Kirkwood | Win | TKO2 |
4 | Feb 16, 1995 | 21 | Sergei Anikeev | Win | KO2 |
3 | Apr 15, 1994 | 20 | Aleksei Tsygankov | Win | KO3 |
2 | Feb 22, 1994 | 20 | Aleksandr Vasiliev | Win | PTS |
1 | Oct 15, 1993 | 20 | John Morton | Win | TKO2 |
* World-title fight
Nikolai Valuev (Beast from the East) is a 50-year old retired Russian professional boxer. He was born in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union on August 21, 1973. He is a former heavyweight world champion. His professional boxing career spanned more than 16 years — from 1993 to 2009.
Valuev made his professional boxing debut against John Morton at the age of 20 on October 15, 1993, defeating Morton via 2nd round TKO. He went on to win 18 more consecutive fights after the debut, which included 15 wins via stoppage.
He had his first world title fight at the age of 32 on December 17, 2005 after 43 professional fights, against John Ruiz for the heavyweight WBA title. He defeated Ruiz via 12 round majority decision to become the heavyweight champion of the world.
Valuev has won two world titles at heavyweight. For all the details about Valuev's world title wins and defenses refer to the "Championships" section below.
Valuev had a total of two losses in his professional boxing career.
His last professional fight was a heavyweight title defense bout against British boxer David Haye on November 7, 2009. Valuev lost the fight via 12 round majority decision — and lost his WBA title. It's been 14 years, 5 months, and 11 days since this fight.
Valuev had a total of eight world-title fights, which includes winning two world titles and four successful title defenses. He won six of these fights and lost two.
Nikolai Valuev fought for heavyweight world titles in two fights and won both the times. In total, he won two heavyweight belts.
Date | Opponent | Division | Titles Won | Method |
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Aug 30, 2008 | John Ruiz | Heavyweight | WBA* | UD |
Dec 17, 2005 | John Ruiz | Heavyweight | WBA | MD |
Nikolai Valuev had six heavyweight world-title defense fights. He won four of them and lost two times.
Following is the table of his successful title defense fights, the next section has the fights where he lost his titles.
Date | Opponent | Division | Titles Defended | Method |
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Dec 20, 2008 | Evander Holyfield | Heavyweight | WBA | MD |
Jan 20, 2007 | Jameel McCline | Heavyweight | WBA | RTD |
Oct 7, 2006 | Monte Barrett | Heavyweight | WBA | TKO |
Jun 3, 2006 | Owen Beck | Heavyweight | WBA | TKO |
Nikolai Valuev lost two world-title defense fights, and lost a total of two titles in these fights.
Date | Opponent | Division | Titles Lost | Method |
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Nov 7, 2009 | David Haye | Heavyweight | WBA | MD |
Apr 14, 2007 | Ruslan Chagaev | Heavyweight | WBA | MD |
Valuev fought a total of 53 times during his professional career, which includes 8 world-title fights at the heavyweight division. These five fights are the highlight of his career.
December 17, 2005: Valuev wins his first world title by defeating John Ruiz via 12 round majority decision. He is now the WBA heavyweight world champion.
June 3, 2006: Valuev successfully defends the WBA heavyweight title against Owen Beck, winning the fight via 3rd round TKO.
January 20, 2007: Valuev successfully defends the WBA heavyweight title against Jameel McCline, winning the fight via 3rd round RTD.
August 30, 2008: Valuev wins the WBA heavyweight title from John Ruiz, by beating Ruiz via 12 round unanimous decision.
December 20, 2008: Valuev successfully defends the WBA heavyweight title against Evander Holyfield, winning the fight via 12 round majority decision.
Valuev knocked out 34 of his 53 opponents. By his last fight, his KO ratio was at 65.4%. Of his total 50 wins, 34 of them were via KO (68%).
Valuev's first world-title win was the WBA belt at heavyweight. He defeated John Ruiz via 12 round majority decision to win the title.
Valuev won two world titles at heavyweight.
Valuev had a total of six title defense fights. He was successful four times and lost two times.