I missed Valuev's fights with Ruiz and Larry Donald except for a few short clips lasting less than a minute, and supposedly he doesn't have all that much power for such a behemoth, but the right hand arm punch that knocked out Otis Tisdale looked pretty serious to me. George Foreman's arm punches could hurt guys so we should expect Valuev's to do some damage too.

I think that Wladdy could beat Valuev but it wouldn't be easy. He would have to slip the jab, get inside and land short combinations. He could fight him like the way Ruiz does, tying up Valuev inside after landing a punch, or else he could move back outside right away to avoid any kind of disaster on the inside. If I was Wladdy's manager I would try hard to avoid Valuev since it might be a bad style matchup for Wladdy. He's used to staying outside and landing his jab, hook and right hand, and only tying up inside. That might not work against the much taller Valuev. I would love to see such a fight but somehow I don't think that there would be enough interest in it outside of the Ukraine or Russia. We will see.