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June 20th 2009-Veltins Arena, Gelsenkirchen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany Ruslan Chagaev (25-0-1, 17) vs Wladimir Klitschko (52-3, 45) When bouts fall through we rarely end up with something notable taking it's place. In the summer of 2006 however life got weird in the Heavyweight division. WBA "co-champion" Ruslan Chagaev tested positive for a form of Hepatitis, forcing him out of a scheduled May bout with Nikolay Valuev. Around the same time David Haye had to pull out of a bout with Wladimir Klitschko. We would then see Chagaev and Klitschko face off, with only Klitschko's IBF, WBO and IBO titles on the line, not Chagaev's WBA belt. This was a legitimately big Heavyweight bout, and it's often forgotten how important this was to the division at the time,. even if the way it came about was rather odd.
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