Nikolai Valuev

Nikolai Valuev is one of those figures whose stats read like fiction: 213 cm tall, twice a WBA heavyweight champion. But what fascinates me isn't the size, it's what he did after the gloves came off. He became a politician, a published writer, and an actor, refusing to be defined solely by his frame. The Saint Petersburg giant kept reinventing his life rather than coasting on novelty. That suggests a man who used his head as much as his reach. There's something genuinely admirable about an outsized life lived with that much intent beyond the ring.

Name (English)

Nikolai Valuev

Name (Japanese)

ニコライ・ワルーエフ

Reading

にこらい・わるーえふ

Born

August 21, 1973 (age 52)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Ox

Origin

Saint Petersburg, Russia

Height

213 cm

Occupation

boxer / politician / athletics competitor / writer / actor

University

Lesgaft National State University of Physical Education, Sport and Health

Awards & achievements

• Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class without swords
• Master of Sports of Russia
• WBA World Heavyweight Champion

• Official sitehttps://valuevsport.ru/
• Xhttps://x.com/NickValuev
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai%20Valuev
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8B%E3%82%B3%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AF%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%A8%E3%83%95
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q508929

Tags

• boxer
• politician
• athletics competitor

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.