Of course he ducked him. There isn't a heavyweight in history who could have competed with a healthy SNV.
He actually did duck him. Vitali was put forward for the fight but he eventually priced himself out , so both bro's ducked Big Val.
Valuev is a classy gentleman. The total opposite of what you would expect from the yeti. Anyway, if Chagaev and Haye both beat Valuev, Wlad would have been the first to ever stop him.
This is interesting. I was part of the team that examined ChinaHandJoe's mathematical proof of the so-called SNV theorem, namely, that Valuev was the premier heavyweight of his era. To see the same idea proven again, this time using just elements of language and deconstructionism, well... it gladdens the heart. It brings a certain epistemological symmetry to the question. I've heard that a sect of Zen monks somewhere in Tibet are joyfully coming at the question from yet another angle as a means of attaining supreme enlightenment. Truly, everything is connected. Valuev is.
