Monte's crew says:

Valuev likes to hold, throw elbows and stiff-arm his opponents,” Bashir continued. “I won’t tolerate infractions. No one has ever really challenged Valuev. We want to make him fight.”

NOW I KNOW THAT VALUEV WILL WIN. I WILL NEVER POST AGAIN IF HE DOESNT. I WAS RIGHT ABOUT MASKAEV SO I STILL POST. NOW; the reasoning above is so dumb that its baffling. Its simply insane!!!
a) The people who Valuev had the most trouble with were Ruiz and Donald: they picket points of him.
b) The people who made Valuev fight (Levin, Rhino, Beck) All were crushed. The thing is; unless you manage some very clean and crisp perfect power shot you will only accomplish burning out. Even decent shots cannot substantially affect a top conditioned 350 pound athlete with fight experience. Barrett is not that much better than poor Etienne or Beck, so there is no reason to think that "fighting and challenging" Valuev is to take away your only advantage; mobility (so well used by Donald).
c) Valuev is laid back guy like many big guys; but if you threaten him, adrenaline will flow and when a big decent fighter fights a smaller decent fighter the bigger will win.

In any case there is no other strategy than moving alot and scoring point, and even that wont work because of the long jab and new found uppercut, but "taking it to" Valuev is suicide. Valuev is not WK.