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Sensational Win: ‘Russian Giant’ Valuev lost to ‘White Tyson’ Chagaev

2007-04-14T15:13:00.000-07:00

In a fight for the WBA Champion Title Ruslan ‘White Tyson’ Chagaev won by split decision after 12 rounds of rumble.

First rounds didn’t promise there would be a sensation. But by the middle of the match Chagaev started justifying his nickname. He was landing punches in the Valuev’s head more and more often.

Valuev wasn’t prepared for that. He looked like a kid trying to keep Chagaev at distance. Valuev’s jabs couldn’t help him. In the round 12 Valuev was about to collapse. He apparently looked fatigued. But huge difference in size couldn’t let Chagaev knock Valuev out.

Nevertheless, the scorecards were as follows: 114:114, 113:115, 111:117 in favor of the new champion Ruslan 'White Tyson' Chagaev.

At last seconds Chagaev was even showboating being confident that he'd won the fight:

One of Chagaev's punches he landed in the Valuev's head:

Unexpected result: Nokolai Defends his champion title (Video)

2007-01-20T14:42:00.000-08:00

One may ask why it was unexpected when many experts predicted Valuev's win. The answer is simple: in the third round Jameel McKleine got injured and was unable to keep on fighting.
Let's see how it's happened:

I guess, we all are disappointed now. And hoping for a rematch.
For Jameel it was a real bad luck: it's his third chance to become a champion and he lost it again.

Video of Klitschko knocking out Kelvin Brock

2006-11-12T12:48:00.000-08:00

This video shows how it happenned. Wladimir Klitschko defended his champion's title by knocking out Kelving Brock in the seventh round of the fight.

Unfortunately for Kelvin Brock, he couldn't survive from Klitschko's punches, while Klitschko proved that he's not a spectacular, but still efficient fighter