By Andrey Krikunov

WBA heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev started his training camp for the bout against David Haye which is set to take place on November 7. The Russian boxer trains in his hometown of Saint-Petersburg, but has a lack of decent sparring-partners.

“Now we have two training sessions per day with one day-off in a week, - told Valuev’s trainer Alexander Zimin to Sovetskiy Sport. – We pay special attention to fitness. It’s very bad when a fighter doesn’t have fights. Later on we’ll increase Nikolay’s work with a partner. He had several sparring sessions with Italian Olympics heavyweight champion Roberto Cammarelle who came to Peterborough with his team. But we don’t have a permanent sparring partner here."

Valuev himself is in a confident mood and is ready to silence talkative Haye on the ring.

“My future opponent is David Haye, or to be more precise – David Boor, - joked the Russian giant. – He’s really a rude guy. He likes to wag his tongue even more than the other blabbermouth John Ruiz," Valuev said.