Knockout of boxer Valuev

Former world heavyweight boxing champion (according to WBA) Nikolai Valuev lost his fight with St. Petersburg Themis. The Kalininsky District Magistrate Court found the world-famous boxer guilty of causing minor harm to health out of a sense of personal hostility. Valuev’s victim is an elderly security guard at the Spartak sports complex, Yuri Sergeev. The World Court sentenced the boxer to a fine of 30 thousand rubles and to pay compensation to Mr. Sergeev in the amount of 100 thousand rubles.

True, the decision is not final: both the convicted boxer and his victim are dissatisfied with the verdict (each in their own way) and intend to seek its overturning and a new trial. The boxer and his lawyer Sergei Solomonov will have to fight the next round of the fight with Themis in the Kalinin Federal Court, where their complaint (as well as the complaint of Yuri Sergeev and his lawyer Nikolai Zavaruev) against the verdict of the magistrate court will be considered.
The world-famous boxer and his defense insist that due to the lack of corpus delicti in Valuev’s actions, the criminal prosecution must be stopped. The security guard of the sports complex, not so well known to the world, and his lawyer, on the contrary, believe that the boxer is guilty and should be punished not only financially, but also put behind bars.
The story that brought the ex-world champion to the dock occurred in January 2006. Nikolai Valuev’s wife Galina brought her son to classes at the Spartak sports complex. The woman parked her jeep in the parking lot reserved for sports complex buses. According to Yuri Sergeev, he found the owner of the jeep and asked her to move the foreign car. In response to his request, Galina Valueva allegedly ordered the guard to go to the door and stand there. Sergeev repeated his request, promising to call a tow truck otherwise. After that, the ex-champion appeared on stage and beat him up. The athlete dragged the elderly man into the ventilation chamber, where, according to Sergeev, he struck him about thirty blows.
The ex-champion himself and his wife put forward a different version of events. According to them, Sergeev rudely demanded that Galina Valueva move the car, while insulting her in every possible way. When the athlete arrived, his wife was sobbing, and Sergeev, unknown to Valuev at that time, was shouting at her. The ex-champion tried to move the guard away from his wife, but the man fell. Then Nikolai Valuev led Yuri Sergeev into the ventilation chamber, where the guard hid between the pipes. The athlete claimed that he did not hit the guard, but only tried to talk to him.
Be that as it may, but, according to the forensic medical examination, Mr. Sergeev received bruises and a concussion.

Alexander SAMOILOV