By Ruslan Chikov

The former WBA heavyweight champion Nikolai Valuev is losing interest in a fight with undefeated Olympic gold medal winner Odlanier Solis. The "Russian Giant" would rather fight WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko right now. They were negotiating the fight earlier this year but no deal was reached. Klitschko's camp said Valuev and his co-promoter Don King were not being reasonable by demanding a guaranteed purse of $4 million dollars.

When they could not reach a deal and mandatory challenger Ray Austin began to have problems with his management, the WBC ordered a fight between Valuev and Solis. The winner will get a shot at Klitschko. Negotiations to make a fight with Solis have been taking too long for Valuev's liking. To make matters worse, the German television networks are not very interested in a fight between Valuev and Solis.

"I do not want to fight Solis. I've gotten tired of always facing these up and coming boxers. The Cuban is not interesting to me. I want the fight with Vitali, which will be a real mega-fight," Valuev said. 

"My promoters Wilfried Sauerland and Don King assure me that they are keeping in contact with Shelly Finkel, adviser of the Klitschko brothers. But I don't have any news or details on it. Nevertheless, I am confident that our fight with Vitali will take place. This fight has so much interest that the financial differences betweenour two sides will be settled."