Ruslan Chagaev
| Ruslan Chagaev Руслан Чагаев |
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Chagaev in 2007
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| Real name | Ruslan Shamilevich Chagaev | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | White Tyson | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rated at | Heavyweight | ||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Reach | 188 cm (74 in) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Uzbekistani | ||||||||||||||||||
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19 October 1978 Andijan, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union (now Uzbekistan) |
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| Stance | Southpaw | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Total fights | 38 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wins | 34 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wins by KO | 21 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Losses | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Draws | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Ruslan Shamilevich Chagaev (Tatar: Руслан Шамил улы Чагаев; Russian: Руслан Шамилович Чагаев); born 19 October 1978) is an Uzbekistani former professional boxer who competed from 1997 to 2016. He is a two-time WBA heavyweight champion, having held the full world title from 2007 to 2009, and the Regular title from 2014 to 2016. To date, Chagaev remains the only Asian boxer in the history of the sport to hold a heavyweight world title by any of the four major sanctioning bodies.
In 2007 he defeated then-unbeaten Nikolai Valuev to win the WBA heavyweight title for the first time, and would make two successful defences. Due to injuries and being unable to grant Valuev a rematch in 2009, the WBA stripped Chagaev of the title. He went on to suffer his first professional loss in the same year to Wladimir Klitschko, who held the IBF, WBO, and IBO heavyweight titles; the vacant Ring magazine and lineal titles were also at stake.
Chagaev won the WBA heavyweight title for a second time—this time the Regular version—by defeating Fres Oquendo in 2014. He made one successful defence, but lost the title to Lucas Browne in 2016. However, after Browne failed a drug test, the WBA reinstated Chagaev as champion, but he was once again stripped of the title in July after failing to pay sanctioning fees. On 28 July 2016 he announced his retirement from boxing due to ongoing eye injuries.
As an amateur, Chagaev won gold medals at the 2001 World Championships and 1999 Asian Championships, in the heavyweight and super-heavyweight divisions respectively.
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