Ruslan Chagaev, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Uzbekistani boxer
Date of Birth: 19-Oct-1978
Place of Birth: Andijan, Andijan Region, Uzbekistan
Profession: boxer
Nationality: Uzbekistan
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Ruslan Chagaev
- Ruslan Shamilevich Chagaev (Tatar: ?????? ????? ??? ??????; Uzbek: Ruslan Shamil'evich Chagaev; Russian: ?????? ????????? ??????); born 19 October 1978) is a retired Uzbek professional boxer of Tatarian descent who competed from 2001 to 2016.
- He held the WBA heavyweight title twice, from 2007 to 2009 and from 2014 to 2016, and was the first Asian boxer to win a world heavyweight title by any of the four major sanctioning bodies. Chagaev's career is outstanding in a sense he is one of a few professional boxers to resume his amateur career after a few professional bouts in 1997.
- Chagaev was reinstated as an amateur by AIBA the following year as his professional bouts were declared exhibitions. In 2007, Chagaev defeated then-unbeaten Nikolai Valuev to win his first WBA heavyweight title, and would make two successful defences.
- Due to injuries and being unable to grant Valuev a rematch in 2009, the WBA stripped Chagaev of the title.
- He went on to suffer his first professional loss in the same year to unified heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko. Chagaev won the WBA (Regular) heavyweight title for a second time by defeating Fres Oquendo in 2014.
- He made one successful defence, then lost the title to Lucas Browne in 2016.
- However, after Browne failed a drug test, the WBA reinstated Chagaev as champion, but he was once again stripped of the title in July after failing to pay sanctioning fees.
- On 28 July 2016 he announced his retirement from boxing due to ongoing eye injuries.As an amateur, Chagaev won gold medals at the 2001 World Championships and 1999 Asian Championships, in the heavyweight and super-heavyweight divisions respectively.
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