Briton Haye attains WBA heavyweight title

2009-11-08 06:45:10 GMT2009-11-08 14:45:10 (Beijing Time) Xinhua English

BERLIN, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- Briton David Haye lifted the WBA heavyweight championship after defeating Russian giant Nikolai Valuev by a majority decision on Saturday.

The former undisputed cruiserweight champion won over the judges with two scores of 116-112, while a third called it 114-114.

Haye improved to 23-1 with 21 KOs while Valuev's record dropped to 50-2 with 34 KOs.

Haye's first defense of the WBA belt will be against former titleholder John Ruiz, who earlier beat German Adnan Serin in the seventh round by TKO.

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