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Article: Would YOU step into the ring with the 7ft 2in Beast from the East who kills bears with his bare hands? That's what one (relatively weedy) British boxer will do this weekend. His secret weapons? Organic broccoli and a pre-fight sex ban.(Features)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- November 5, 2009
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Byline: by Victoria Moore
THE BOXING world has never seen anything like it. Standing at over 7ft tall, weighing 23st and with a thick pelt of body hair, the gargantuan Nikolai Valuev is the tallest and heaviest world heavyweight champion in history.
The Russian is so physically formidable that his quailing opponents have been known to try to pull out of bouts -- merely after encountering his monster size at the pre-fight weigh-in.
'No one told me I was taking on Bigfoot,' cried one. And you can understand their despair. The socalled Beast from the East has lost only once in 52 fights (beaten by Ruslan Chagaev, a former WBA heavyweight champion ...