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WBA heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev continues his training camp for the bout with Briton David Haye, and at the same time trying to answer all the verbal attacks from his caustic opponent.
Former EBU (European) super middleweight champion Vitali Tsypko is still recovering from his shoulder injury and doesn’t know when he will step into a ring again and whether it will happen in 2009.
Spanish boxer Gabriel Campillo successfully defended his WBA World light heavyweight title. The Spaniard managed to win the title at his opponent’s backyard when he beat Hugo Hernan Garay in Argentina and now retained his belt also away from home in Sport Complex “Daulet”, Astana, Kazakhstan. Campillo, nicknamed “Chico Guapo”, overpowered local prospect Beibut Shumenov in a close bout.
WBA heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev started his training camp for the bout against David Haye which is set to take place on November 7. The Russian boxer trains in his hometown of Saint-Petersburg, but has a lack of decent sparring-partners.
WBО light middleweight champion Sergiy Dzinziruk is leaving Universum Box Promotion and will seek a new promoter in the United States. This year the champion hasn’t fought even once. At first, his bout with James Kirkland had broken down and now the fight with Paul Williams, which was set to take place on October 3, also isn’t going to happen. The American boxer will take on Kelly Pavlik on the same date.