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Ruslan Chagaev fell ill with hepatitis B
The WBA champion Ruslan Chagaev was forced to refuse the Jobo's WBO champion in this weight of Sultan Ibragimov due to illness due to illness due to illness.
The current state of health of the Uzbek boxer will not allow him to train for several weeks, and this means that he could not properly prepare for the October match. Chagaev himself, who is now in Uzbekistan, commented on the situation as follows.
“I am very upset that I could not enter the ring. I could go down in history by conducting this battle, since two existing world champion had never held a unifying duel during the first protection of their titles. But this important fight should be completely ready, and, unfortunately, this is not currently impossible,” Chagaeva tells allboxing.ru .
Meanwhile, the Sports News website announced with reference to the Uzbek branch "Radio Liberty" that Ruslan Chagaev was ill with hepatitis B. The manager of boxer Tymas Niyazov spoke about this radio station.
"Chagaev has hepatitis B, which was confirmed by the results of the tests that came from Germany. Now he feels unimportant, and will begin to train not earlier than three months later. All documents confirming Chagaev’s disease are sent to the corresponding instances, thereby making it clear that the health of the fighter is more expensive than the proposed fees. The pledge from the Ibragimov team is 500 thousand dollars, and they agree to cancel the fight if they agree The money will be returned, ”said the manager of Chagaeva. It should be noted that the deterioration of the health of the Uzbek boxer is most likely caused by exacerbation of chronic illness, since previously hepatitis B was already diagnosed in Chagaev, in particular, Konstantin Tszyu spoke about this, commenting on the results of the Chagaevo against Nikolai Valuev.
"Chagaev, by the way, came to Australia for battle, my former promoter Vlad Warton worked with him, but then he picked up hepatitis B and did not allow him to a fight," the whole sport agency said then to the Zyu agency.