Russian boxing champ Valuyev joins pro-Kremlin party, may run for parliament
Russian professional boxer and ex-heavyweight WBA champion Nikolai Valuyev has joined the United Russia party
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Swedish champion boxer Anders Eklund dead at 52
Swedish heavyweight champion boxer Anders Eklund has died at the age of 52. Swedish news agency TT says Eklund died on Thursday but gave no cause of death. A carpenter by training, Eklund took up boxing in the 1970s. After an unsuccessful Olympics in Moscow in 1980 he began a professional career. Eklund took his first European heavyweight title in 1985 by beating Norway’s Steffen Tangstad.
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