Nikolai Valuev
83.9″ reach · 0% reach advantage · 6th percentile
50–2
Nikolai Valuev has a reach of 83.9″ against a height of 83.9″ — a reach advantage of 0%, unusually short for heavyweight boxing and the 6th percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·Nikolai Valuev — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-21
How this record is compiled
- Measurements come from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the bout list is parsed from the results table on the same article, read on 2026-07-21. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the
MMA recordtemplate — two different parsers, because reading MMA rows as a boxing table returns a fighter's boxing record in place of their real one. - A bout enters the ledger with whatever fields the source states: result, opponent, method, round, year. Any field the source leaves empty stays empty here. A date that cannot be established is left blank rather than inferred, and the bout is still counted.
- A no contest is counted and printed as a no contest. It is never folded into the wins, the losses or the draws, and it never disappears to make a total balance.
- Where the article's infobox total disagrees with its own results table, both figures are published and each is labelled with where it came from. Nothing is averaged and nothing is reconciled against a second database.
- Percentiles rank this fighter among the 317 heavyweight boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100
Bout record
Every bout the article's own results table lists, in order. A dash is a field the source leaves empty — it is not a zero and it is not a guess.
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | L | David Haye | Decision | 12 |
| 2008 | W | Evander Holyfield | Decision | 12 |
| 2008 | W | John Ruiz | Decision | 12 |
| 2008 | W | Siarhei Liakhovich | Decision | 12 |
| 2007 | W | Jean Francois Bergeron | Decision | 12 |
| 2007 | L | Ruslan Chagaev | Decision | 12 |
| 2007 | W | Jameel McCline | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2006 | W | Monte Barrett | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 2006 | W | Owen Beck | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2005 | W | John Ruiz | Decision | 12 |
| 2005 | W | Larry Donald | — | 12 |
| 2005 | W | Clifford Etienne | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2005 | W | Attila Levin | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2004 | W | Gerald Nobles | — | 4 |
| 2004 | W | Paolo Vidoz | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 2004 | W | Richard Igbineghu | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2004 | W | Marcelo Domínguez | Decision | 8 |
| 2004 | W | Dicky Ryan | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Otis Tisdale | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Bob Mirovic | Decision | 8 |
| 2003 | W | Vitali Shkraba | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2003 | W | Pedro Daniel Franco | Decision | 12 |
| 2002 | W | Kostiantyn Pryziuk | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2002 | W | Taras Bidenko | Decision | 12 |
| 2002 | W | Yaroslav Zavorotnyi | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Toakipa Tasefa | Decision | 12 |
| 2001 | W | George Linberger | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Vitali Shkraba | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2000 | W | Tone Fiso | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Yuriy Yelistratov | Decision | 12 |
| 2000 | W | Yuri Nikolaev | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1999 | W | Aleksei Varakin | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | W | James McQueen | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | ? | Andreas Sidon | — | 6 |
| 1999 | W | John Tupou | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1999 | W | Aleksei Osokin | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1998 | W | Evgeny Odolsky | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | James Gaines | — | 6 |
| 1998 | W | Jim Huffman | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1997 | W | Sinclair Babb | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Alarim Uysal | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1997 | W | Kevin Rosier | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Aug Tanuvasa | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Rodney Harris | Decision | 4 |
| 1997 | W | Terrell Nelson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1997 | W | Manao Navuilawa | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Patrick Slade | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Darren Fearn | — | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Neil Kirkwood | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1995 | W | Sergei Anikeev | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1994 | W | Aleksei Tsygankov | — | 3 |
| 1994 | W | Aleksandr Vasiliev | — | 4 |
| 1993 | W | John Morton | — | 2 |
18 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Nikolai Valuev — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-21
Reach in context
Reach advantage
0%
83.9″ reach on a 83.9″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 83.9″ (213 cm) | 93rd pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 83.9″ (213 cm) | 99th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 31 of 53 dated bouts | |
| Country | Russia |
Record
Boxing record
50–2
53 bouts on record
Finish rate
68%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 51st percentile
The career, bout by bout
53 recorded bouts from 1993 to 2009. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
17y
1993–2009
Longest unbeaten run
46
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1997
8 bouts
Recorded bouts
53
53 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
What this record does and does not say
- What is Nikolai Valuev's record?
- 50–2 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 53 bouts individually.
- Does a no contest change a record here?
- No. A no contest is not a win, a loss or a draw, and it is never folded into one. It is counted and printed separately, so a 20–0 record with two no contests is shown as exactly that rather than as 22–0 or as 20–0 with the no contests dropped. The same applies to a bout overturned after the fact where the source records the change.
- What happens when sources disagree about a fight?
- This site publishes one source — the fighter's English Wikipedia article, read on the date printed under every table — and it does not silently reconcile that against anyone else's database. Where the article's own infobox total and its own results table disagree, both are shown and the page says which one each figure came from. Nothing is averaged, and no field is filled in from a second source to make a total balance.
Where this record leads
The 605 heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Valuev sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 2000s boxing31 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
481 FIGHTERS Evander Holyfield vs Nikolai ValuevA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
2008 Longest unbeaten runsNikolai Valuev went 46 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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