Ruslan Chagaev

Ruslan Shamilevich Chagaev ; 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. As of December 2020, BoxRec ranks Chagaev as the 10th greatest Asian fighter of all time, pound-for-pound. He was ranked as the world's top 10 heavyweight by BoxRec from 2004 to 2011, reaching his career-high ranking of No.3 in 2005, 2006 and 2007. Two of his victorious fights received a 5-Star rating from BoxRec.