Chagaev Cancels Bout

According to ESPN, Ruslan Chagaev has pulled out of a rematch that would have pitted him against the former WBA Heavyweight Title holder Nikolay Valuev.  If you haven't seen Valuev before he resembles the offspring of an accidental (or intentional) cross pollination of a North American grizzly bear and Ulyana, the failed experiment of Russian military scientists (see for yourself).  I find it very hard to justify the credibility of the casting director for Street Fighter the Movie in having blatantly missed out on this guy to take on the highly regarded and challenging role of the greatest video-game-based wrestler in the entire Soviet Union, Zangief.

Anyways,  I normally don't get too caught up in any of the news regarding the gaggle of Russian heavyweights (every one of them is as slow and robotic as the next and I particularly don't feel the need to spend my time trying pronounce or spell any of their surnames), but this one caught my eye.  

According to Chagaev's camp (and a doctor), he has cancelled the match due to what they are calling a protracted virus; an upper respiratory tract infection.  

Now, this is the second time in recent memory Chagaev has cancelled a fight due to illness, the first coming before his bout with then champion Sultan Ibragimov (spell check).  It was later reported that his reason for missing the fight was due to the fact that he was possibly suffering from hepatitis B. 

 Hmmm... tract infection and hepatitis B, kind of sounds like the same problems listed on the medical patient form of that guy sitting next to me in the waiting room of my college campus's Planned Parenthood.  

You're a professional boxer, lay off of the Stolichnaya Vodka and the Russian mistresses for a minute and maybe the number of infections that you contract will steadily decrease - You have a fight at the end of the month.