Nikolai Valuev, unsurpassed in strength and size! His height is 216 cm. Today he has world-famous nicknames: Russian giant, Nikola Pitersky, Beast from the East, Kolya-sledgehammer and Stone Head.
Short biography
Nikolai Valuev - "Russian giant" was born on August 21, 1973 in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) in a family of ordinary factory workers. Parents could not even imagine that their only beloved son would become the owner of such extraordinary, rare and unusual physical data. They are of average height. And their son Nikolai was born small.
The weight of the newborn was 3200 grams, and the height was only 52 cm. However, he began to grow rapidly already in elementary school. In the first grade, Valuev's height almost reached the teacher's height.
Successful basketball lessons as a child helped him become national junior champion in the sport. However, the rapid growth of Nikolai had a negative effect on the coordination of his movements and on the strength of his physical abilities in his adolescence. Nikolai's body could not resist fatigue, and his endurance decreased. So he took up easyathletics (hammer throw). And here he also managed to achieve good success - he fulfilled the standard of the master of sports in discus throwing.
Parameters and growth of Valuev
Nikolai Valuev himself once said that it's funny to be 196 cm tall, and the brains of just a sixth grader (12 years old).
Nikolai Valuev is huge in size. His height and weight are respectively 213 cm and 148 kg. Despite his apparent clumsiness and sluggishness, he was able to achieve considerable heights in his sports career.
Where Nikolai Valuev studied
Great athlete Nikolai Valuev graduated from P. F. Lesgaft National State University in 2009 (physical culture, sports and he alth). He defended his diploma on the topic of the psychological state and activity of men and women (boxers) at various stages of training. Valentina Matvienko herself in June of the same 2009 presented Nikolai Valuev with a statuette (bronze sphinx), a diploma of graduation, as well as all the best 78 graduates of all universities in 2009 in St. Petersburg.
In 2011, he received his second higher education, graduating from St. Petersburg State University (Department of Economics).
The very first steps in boxing. Nikolai Valuev's growth in the sports ladder
Valuev made his first steps in boxing relatively late, only at the age of 20 - in 1993. It was his first workout. Oleg Shalaev is the very first coach of Nikolai, and later his manager and promoter. In the same 1993, Valuev had a victorious fight in Berlin with a boxer from America, John Morten. However, the coach, together with his capable student, did not consider this fight professional enough and soontime participated in amateur championships in St. Petersburg and Russia. In these fights, Nikolai Valuev earned a silver medal twice.
When in 1994 Valuev, together with the Russian national team, went to the Goodwill Games, the commission (international) disqualified the boxer, remembering the last Berlin fight. In connection with these events, the athlete had to end his amateur boxing and move on to a professional career.
He had only five fights in 2 years, starting from 1994, and moreover, with boxers who were not strong enough for him. However, since 1997, Valuev began to speak more often and more regularly.
Nikolai Valuev achieved great success in boxing. Height, weight do not prevent him from demonstrating miracles of agility and strength.
About some sports professional achievements of the boxer
In 1999, Nikolai won the Russian champion title (fight against boxer Alexei Osokin) among professionals.
In 2000, Valuev became the champion of the Pan-Asian Boxing Association (defeated boxer Yuri Elistratov from Ukraine).
In 2002, the usual next victory and defense of the same title (a tough fight with Ukrainian boxer Taras Bidenko).
Valuev's growth in the professional boxing field continues.
In July 2004, Nikolai won the title of intercontinental champion according to the WBA (boxed against Richard Bango, a Nigerian athlete). Unfortunately, it didn’t turn out very nice: Valuev, who had a good advantage, knocked out his opponent with a strong blowin the back of the head. The referee did not pay attention to this and opened the score. Outraged Nigerians removed their boxer from this ring.
World Champion Title
Since 2005, Valuev's coach was Manvel Gabrielyan, and the promoter was the German Wilfried Sauerland. By that time, his Elimination fight with Donald turned out to be very difficult and generally equal on both sides. But the judges, under a deafening whistle and the noise of the hall, gave the victory to Valuev by the decision of the majority. And already the championship fight with fighter John Ruiz stretched over 12 rounds. In this fight, even one referee gave a draw.
And yet, in December 2005, Valuev finally became the first and only Russian world heavyweight champion. The growth of Valuev Nikolai as a World Champion has taken place.
Family, wife and children
The menacing appearance of Nikolai hardly fits or even almost does not fit with the concept of "a good family man." Meanwhile, Nikolai Valuev is happily married. Height and weight did not prevent him from living for more than 15 years in marriage with Galina Borisovna (born in 1977, Dimitrova as a girl). Their eldest son Grigory (born in 2002) is 13 years old, daughter Irina (born in 2007) is 8 years old and their youngest son Sergei (born in 2012) is only three years old.
The growth of Valuev's wife reaches only his belt. Next to such a giant husband, Galina looks like a delicate, fragile and tiny little inch. Her height is only 163 cm, and her weight is 100 kg less than the weight of her husband. They may well claim the title - the most unusual couple in the Guinness Book of Records.
Although unusually tallValuev, his children do not yet differ in size from their peers.
The great world fighter in his life more than once had to prove his worth as a good family man. Today, the Valuev family has apartments not only in Russia, but also abroad (in Germany), they have cars and even boats.
The story of Nikolai's acquaintance with his future wife
The acquaintance happened by chance at the birthday party of their mutual friends. Nikolai then turned 24 years old, Galina - 20 years old. At that time, he was very worried and grieved about the breakup with his ex-girlfriend. Galina, accordingly, became a vest that allowed him to survive the loss.
She was, of course, initially amazed by his unusual height, but then got used to it.
Valuev is firmly convinced that Galina is the most reliable rear for him, a true friend. She does household chores and raises children. And Nikolai is a caring, loving husband and father to his beloved children.
They hope they will be happy forever.
Nikolai Valuev's Modern Boxing School
In 2009, Valuev and a group of like-minded coaches created the wonderful "Nikolai Valuev School of Modern Boxing" for teenagers and youth. Branches of this school were created in St. Petersburg and throughout the Leningrad region. Three types of groups have been formed: for schoolchildren, students in grades 3-5, students in grades 6-8, and even for older ones. For the last group, sports and recreation sections with elements of classic boxing were opened.
Many pupils of this school already participate and even win boxing competitions and the Valuev Cup boxing tournament, which is held regularly in St. Petersburg.
Valuev believes that as long as he moves normally and as long as he has at least some strength, he will try to do something.
Professional success in everything
Recently, Nikolai Valuev can be seen in commercials and advertisements. He repeatedly agreed to appear in photo and video advertisements for various goods and services. In 2009, he even signed an advertising contract with a manufacturer of German sausages. Under this contract, Valuev is the face of large-sized sausages (contract for 5 years).
Nikolai Valuev wants to open his own family restaurant in Germany, where a cake featuring the Klitschko brothers' boxers will become a signature dish.
Also in 2010, Valuev signed a contract (advertising) with the poker portal Pokerstars. And here he is going to succeed in the game of poker.
Popular due to its impressive size and appearance Nikolai Valuev. Height, weight played a positive and decisive role in his life. In addition to everything that he achieved, he also acquired the famous above-mentioned nicknames.
Nikolai's free time hobby is fishing and hunting.
Why is he doing all this? He says he wants to get out of character, that he doesn't like to put himself in a certain box.
It doesn't matter how tall Valuev is. More importantly, Nikolai Valuev is a famousaround the world as an ex-world boxing champion, a fairly successful showman and a good deputy of the State Duma of Russia. During his life, he became not only the strongest, heaviest and tallest fighter in the entire history of world boxing, but also the first Russian athlete to win the high title of WBA world champion among all world professionals.
