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Ruslan Chagaev

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Ruslan Shamilevich Chagaev (Руслан Шамил улы Чагаев, Ruslan Şamil ulı Çağayev; Ruslan Shamil'evich Chagaev; 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 unified heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko. Chagaev won the WBA (Regular) heavyweight title for a second time 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. [1]

74 relations: Alexander Dimitrenko, Alexander Povetkin, Andijan, Arena AufSchalke, Boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics, Boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Heavyweight, Boxing at the 1998 Asian Games, Boxing at the 1998 Asian Games – Men's 91 kg, Boxing at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Heavyweight, Boxing in the 2000s, Boxing in the 2010s, Boxing styles and technique, Carl Davis Drumond, Central Asia, Culture of Uzbekistan, Félix Savón, Francesco Pianeta, Fres Oquendo, Georgia at the 2000 Summer Olympics, Give Me Fire!, Iran at the 1998 Asian Games, John Ruiz, Joseph Parker (boxer), Kali Meehan, Kenny Adams, Kertson Manswell, Lennox Lewis vs. Vitali Klitschko, List of Asian Games medalists in boxing, List of heavyweight boxing champions, List of lineal boxing world champions, List of male boxers, List of medalists at the AIBA World Boxing Championships, List of southpaw stance boxers, List of Tatars, List of The Ring world champions, List of Uzbeks, List of WBA world champions, Luan Krasniqi, Lucas Browne, Manuel Charr, Matt Skelton, Michael Sprott, Mighty Mo (kickboxer), Mike Tyson in popular culture, Nikolai Valuev, Nikolai Valuev vs. David Haye, Oleksiy Mazikin, Rob Calloway, Ruslan (given name), Shannon Briggs, ..., Sherman Williams (boxer), Sport in Uzbekistan, Stefan Leko, Sultan Ibragimov, Sultan Ibragimov vs. Evander Holyfield, Teddy Atlas, Travis Walker, Ukraine at the 2000 Summer Olympics, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan at the 1996 Summer Olympics, Uzbekistan at the 2000 Summer Olympics, Vitali Boot, Vladimer Chanturia, Volodymyr Virchis, Wladimir Klitschko, Wladimir Klitschko vs. David Haye, Wladimir Klitschko vs. Hasim Rahman, Wladimir Klitschko vs. Ruslan Chagaev, Wladimir Klitschko vs. Sultan Ibragimov, Zabit Samedov, Zakeem Graham, 1999 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships, 2001 World Amateur Boxing Championships, 2007 in sports. Expand index (24 more) »

Alexander Dimitrenko

Alexander Viktorovich "Sascha" Dimitrenko (Александр Викторович Димитренко; born 5 July 1982) is a German professional boxer who held the European heavyweight title from 2010 to 2011.

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Alexander Povetkin

Alexander Vladimirovich "Sasha" Povetkin (Алекса́ндр Влади́мирович Пове́ткин; born 2 September 1979) is a Russian professional boxer who held the WBA (Regular) heavyweight title from 2011 to 2013.

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Andijan

Andijan (sometimes spelled Andizhan in English) (Andijon / Андижон / ئەندىجان; اندیجان, Andijân/Andīǰān; Андижан, Andižan) is a city in Uzbekistan.

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Arena AufSchalke

Arena AufSchalke (currently known as Veltins-Arena (for sponsorship reasons) is a football stadium in Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It opened on 13 August 2001, as the new home ground for Bundesliga club FC Schalke 04. It hosted the 2004 UEFA Champions League Final and five matches at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, including a quarter-final. It has a capacity of 62,271 (standing and seated) for league matches and 54,740 (seated only) for international matches. The stadium has a retractable roof and a retractable pitch. The naming rights to the stadium were sold on 1 July 2005 to German brewery Veltins.

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Boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Final results for the Boxing competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

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Boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Heavyweight

The Heavyweight class in the boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics competition was the second-heaviest class at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Boxing at the 1998 Asian Games

The Boxing Tournament at the 1998 Asian Games was held at the IMPACT Arena in Bangkok, Thailand from 7 to 18 December 1998.

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Boxing at the 1998 Asian Games – Men's 91 kg

The men's heavyweight boxing competition at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand was held from 12 to 17 December at the IMPACT Arena.

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Boxing at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Heavyweight

The men's heavyweight boxing competition at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was held from 21 September to 30 September at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre.

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Boxing in the 2000s

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Boxing in the 2010s

Boxing in the 2010s includes notable events about boxing which occurred during the decade of the years 2010 to 2019.

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Boxing styles and technique

Throughout the history of gloved boxing styles, techniques and strategies have changed to varying degrees.

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Carl Davis Drumond

Carl Davis Drumond (born 9 February 1975) is a Costa Rican professional boxer who has challenged once for a world heavyweight title.

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Central Asia

Central Asia stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to China in the east and from Afghanistan in the south to Russia in the north.

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Culture of Uzbekistan

The culture of Uzbekistan has a wide mix of ethnic groups and cultures, with the Uzbeks being the majority group.

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Félix Savón

Félix Savón Fabre (born September 22, 1967) is a Cuban former amateur boxer.

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Francesco Pianeta

Francesco Pianeta (born 8 October 1984) is an Italian professional boxer.

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Fres Oquendo

Fres Oquendo (born April 1, 1973) is a professional heavyweight boxer.

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Georgia at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Georgia competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

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Give Me Fire!

Give Me Fire! is the fifth studio album by Swedish band Mando Diao, produced by Salla Salazar of hip hop group The Latin Kings and his brother Masse.

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Iran at the 1998 Asian Games

Iran participated in the 1998 Asian Games held in the capital city of Bangkok.

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John Ruiz

John Ruiz (born January 4, 1972) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1992 to 2010.

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Joseph Parker (boxer)

Joseph Dennis Parker, (born 9 January 1992), also known by his honorary Samoan matai title Lupesoliai La'auli, is a New Zealand professional boxer.

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Kali Meehan

Kalivati Gerald Meehan (born 9 March 1970) born in Auckland New Zealand is an Australian professional boxer of Fijian descent.

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Kenny Adams

Kenneth "Kenny" Adams (born September 25, 1940) is an American professional boxing trainer and a former amateur boxer.

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Kertson Manswell

Kertson Manswell (born October 28, 1976 in Charlotteville, Tobago) also known as The Pride of Tobago, is a heavyweight boxer from Trinidad and Tobago.

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Lennox Lewis vs. Vitali Klitschko

Lennox Lewis vs.

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List of Asian Games medalists in boxing

This is the complete list of Asian Games medalists in boxing from 1954 to 2014.

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List of heavyweight boxing champions

This is a chronological list of world heavyweight boxing champions since the introduction of the Marquess of Queensberry rules in about 1884.

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List of lineal boxing world champions

This is a list of lineal boxing world champions.

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List of male boxers

This is a list of notable male boxers.

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List of medalists at the AIBA World Boxing Championships

This is a list of medalists at the AIBA World Boxing Championships.

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List of southpaw stance boxers

This is a list of southpaw stance boxers.

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List of Tatars

Tatars are a Turkic ethnic group numbering 6.7 million in the late 20th century, including all subgroups of Tatars, such as Volga Tatars, Lipka Tatars and Crimean Tatars.

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List of The Ring world champions

''The Ring'' magazine has awarded world championships in professional boxing within each weight class from its foundation in 1922 until the 1990s, and again since 2001.

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List of Uzbeks

This is a list of notable people of Uzbek ethnicity, regardless of their countries.

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List of WBA world champions

This is a list of WBA world champions, showing every world champion certificated by the World Boxing Association (WBA).

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Luan Krasniqi

Luan Krasniqi (born 10 May 1971) is a German former professional boxer.

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Lucas Browne

Lucas Browne (born 14 April 1979) is an Australian professional boxer and former mixed martial artist and kickboxer.

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Manuel Charr

Manuel Charr (born Mahmoud Omeirat Charr; 10 October 1984, Beirut, Lebanon) is a professional boxer who lives in Germany and is the current WBA (Regular) heavyweight champion.

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Matt Skelton

Matt Skelton (born 23 January 1967) is a British former professional boxer, kickboxer, and mixed martial artist.

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Michael Sprott

Michael Sprott (born 16 January 1975) is a British professional boxer.

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Mighty Mo (kickboxer)

Siala-Mou Siliga (born October 8, 1970), often billed as 'Mighty Mo' is an American-Samoan kickboxer, boxer and mixed martial artist of Samoan heritage who competes in the Heavyweight division.

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Mike Tyson in popular culture

Mike Tyson is an American former World Heavyweight boxing Champion.

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Nikolai Valuev

Nikolai Sergeyevich Valuev (Никола́й Серге́евич Валу́ев; born 21 August 1973) is a Russian politician and former professional boxer.

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Nikolai Valuev vs. David Haye

Nikolai Valuev vs.

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Oleksiy Mazikin

Oleksiy Mazikin (born 1975-02-16) is a Ukrainian boxer best known to win the silver medal at the 2001 World Championships in the Men's Super Heavyweight division.

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Rob Calloway

Rob Calloway (born July 18, 1969) is an American boxer.

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Ruslan (given name)

Ruslan (Руслан) is a Slavic masculine given name used mainly in Russia and in other CIS states.

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Shannon Briggs

Shannon Briggs (born December 4, 1971) is an American professional boxer.

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Sherman Williams (boxer)

Sherman Alexander Williams (born September 1, 1972 in Freeport, Bahamas) is a Bahamian professional heavyweight boxer.

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Sport in Uzbekistan

Over the centuries, Uzbekistan has had a tradition of fostering equestrians and wrestlers (palvins).

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Stefan Leko

Stefan "Blitz" Leko (born June 3, 1974) is a Croatian-German heavyweight kickboxer.

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Sultan Ibragimov

Sultan-Ahmed Magomedsalihovich Ibragimov (Султан-Ахмед Магомедсалихович Ибрагимов; born 8 March 1975) is a Russian former professional boxer who competed from 2002 to 2008, and held the WBO heavyweight title from 2007 to 2008.

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Sultan Ibragimov vs. Evander Holyfield

Sultan Ibragimov vs.

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Teddy Atlas

Theodore A. "Teddy" Atlas Jr. (born July 29, 1956) is an American boxing trainer and fight commentator.

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Travis Walker

Travis Walker (born June 22, 1979 in Tallahassee, Florida) is an American boxer who was an amateur star and is currently a professional heavyweight boxer.

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Ukraine at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Ukraine competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

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Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan, officially also the Republic of Uzbekistan (Oʻzbekiston Respublikasi), is a doubly landlocked Central Asian Sovereign state.

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Uzbekistan at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Uzbekistan competed in the Summer Olympic Games as an independent nation for the first time at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.

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Uzbekistan at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Uzbekistan competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

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Vitali Boot

Vitali Boot is a German amateur boxer best known to win the bronze medal at super heavyweight at the 2001 World Amateur Boxing Championships.

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Vladimer Chanturia

Vladimer Chanturia (born July 1, 1978) is a Georgian boxer who competed in the Heavyweight (91 kg) division at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal.

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Volodymyr Virchis

Volodymyr Virchis (Володимир Вірчіс; born August 18, 1973 in Kakhovka, Kherson Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian boxer and is a touted prospect in the heavyweight division.

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Wladimir Klitschko

Wladimir Wladimirowitsch Klitschko (born 25 March 1976) is a Ukrainian former professional boxer who competed from 1996 to 2017.

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Wladimir Klitschko vs. David Haye

Wladimir Klitschko vs.

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Wladimir Klitschko vs. Hasim Rahman

Wladimir Klitschko vs.

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Wladimir Klitschko vs. Ruslan Chagaev

Wladimir Klitschko vs.

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Wladimir Klitschko vs. Sultan Ibragimov

Wladimir Klitschko vs.

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Zabit Samedov

Zabit "Maugli" Samedov (Zabit Səmədov, Забит Самедов, born June 21, 1984) is an Azerbaijani kickboxer fighting out of Chinuk Gym in Minsk, Belarus.

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Zakeem Graham

Zakeem Graham (born October 4, 1970 in Cincinnati, Ohio), is a professional Heavyweight boxer, his nickname is "Showtime".

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1999 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships

The 20th edition of the Men's Asian Amateur Boxing Championships were held from October 23 to October 30, 1999, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

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2001 World Amateur Boxing Championships

The Men's 2001 World Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Belfast, Northern Ireland, from June 3 to June 10.

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2007 in sports

2007 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruslan_Chagaev

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