Ruslan Chagaev Highlights, Knockouts

Highlights of the current WBA (Regular) Heavyweight champ. Ruslan Chagaev (Tatar: Cyrillic Руслан Шамил улы Чагаев, Latin Ruslan Şamil ulı Çağaev; Russian: Руслан Шамилович Чагаев) born 19 October 1978) is an Uzbekborn Russian Tatar professional boxer. He is a twotime and current WBA heavyweight champion, having first won the title in 2007 with a majority decision victory over Nikolai Valuev; this made him the first and to date only Asian in the history of boxing to hold a major heavyweight title. He was made champion in recess after sustaining an injury and was forced to relinquish the title after failing to face Valuev in a scheduled rematch. In June 2009, Chagaev suffered his first career defeat to IBF, WBO, IBO champion Wladimir Klitschko. Chagaev won the WBA title for a second time the organisation s regular title in July 2014 by defeating Fres Oquendo. As an amateur fighting at heavyweight, Chagaev won the Asian and World Championships.