Nikolai Valuev vs. David Haye Nikolai Valuev vs. David Haye Nikolai Valuev vs. David Haye, billed as "David vs Goliath", was a professional boxing match contested on 7 November 2009 for the WBA heavyweight championship. After regaining the WBA title with a unanimous decision over fellow former Champion John Ruiz Nikolai Valuev had made one defence gaining a very controversial majority decision over Evander Holyfield, he agreed to "Champion in Recess" Ruslan Chagaev, who had given Valuev the only defeat of career. However their fight on 30 May 2009 in Helsinki, Finland at the Hartwall Arena, was cancelled when Chagaev was declared medically unfit after
Nikolai Valuev the reasons he is not planning to make a comeback in boxing. Valuev is one of five heavyweight champions to have retired without having suffered a stoppage loss during his career. The others are Gene Tunney, Rocky Marciano, Riddick Bowe and Sultan Ibragimov. Valuev's first role in a film was a cameo appearance in the German film "7 Zwerge – Der Wald ist nicht genug" in 2006. In 2008, Valuev played the main role in the film "Stonehead" by Philip Yankovskiy, playing an ex-boxer who lost his memory. The film took the main prize at the film festival "Window to