Nikolay Valuev will hold a fight with Evander Holyfield

The Russian-heavyweight boxer Nikolai Valuev, which owns the title of world champion version WBA (World Boxing Association) will hold a fight with Evander Holyfield. Holyfield said that the proposal to hold the fight came from the team Valuev, and he was willing to meet with Russian, said the site channel ESPN.

The contract for the bout has not yet been signed, but, according to an American boxer of the matter is his lawyer. Fight Valuev - Holyfield will be 20 Dec, 2008 in Germany or Switzerland. Earlier, the Russian boxer had planned to meet with Australian Kali Mian, and this fight was appointed on 6 December.

Holyfield, who on October 19 will be 46 years old, spent his last fight in October last year. The American lost on points to Russian Sultan Ibragimov, vladevshego while the title of world champion version WBO (World Boxing Organization).

The fees for the Holyfield fight with Valuev is less than 750 thousand dollars, although the exact amount is unknown. American said that he never received so little for their involvement in chempionskih fighting, but added that welcomes the opportunity to once again fight for the title of world champion.

Holyfield spent his first professional fight in the ring 15 Nov., 1984 of the first heavy weight (at that time - up to 86.2 kilograms). After becoming world champion in this weight category, he moved in the heavy weight, where zavoevyval Champion four times. In the 1990-1992 year, Holyfield was an absolute champion of the world.