Baden-Württemberg
—  State of Germany  —
Flag Coat of arms
Coordinates: 48°32′16″N 9°2′28″E / 48.53778°N 9.04111°E / 48.53778; 9.04111
Country	Germany
Capital	Stuttgart
Government
• Minister-President	Winfried Kretschmann (Greens)
• Governing parties	Greens / SPD
• Votes in Bundesrat	6 (of 69)
Area
• Total	35,751.65 km2 (13,803.79 sq mi)
Population (2010-12-31)[1]
• Total	10,753,880
• Density	300/km2 (780/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
ISO 3166 code	DE-BW
GDP/ Nominal	€ 361.75 billion (2010)[citation needed]
NUTS Region	DE1
Website	www.baden-wuerttemberg.de

A campaign sticker, translated, "We can [do] anything. Except [speak] Standard German." This is an allusion to the fact that Baden-Württemberg is one of the principal centres for innovation in Germany and has many inhabitants with distinctive dialects.

Baden-Württemberg (German pronunciation: [ˈbaːdən ˈvʏɐ̯təmˌbɛɐ̯k]) is one of the 16 states of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine, and is the third largest in both area and population of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of 35,742 square kilometres (13,800 sq mi) and 10.7 million inhabitants.^[2] The state capital is Stuttgart.

The sobriquet Ländle (dialect form for "small land") is sometimes used as a synonym for the Swabian part of Baden-Württemberg.^{[citation needed]}

History[link]

The area used to be covered by the historical states of Baden, including the former Prussian Hohenzollern, and Württemberg, part of the region of Swabia.^[3]

Württemberg was occupied by the Romans in the first century AD who defended their position there by constructing a (limes) rampart. Early on in the third century, the Alemanni drove the Romans beyond the Rhine and the Danube, but in their turn they succumbed to the Franks under Clovis I, the decisive battle taking place in 496. It later became part of the Holy Roman Empire.

After World War II, Allied forces established three federal states: Württemberg-Hohenzollern, Baden (both occupied by France), and Württemberg-Baden (US-occupied). In 1949, these three states became founding members of the Federal Republic of Germany. Article 118 of the new German constitution, however, had already prepared a procedure for those states to merge. After a referendum held on 16 December 1951, Württemberg-Baden, Württemberg-Hohenzollern and Baden voted in favour of a merger.^[2] Baden-Württemberg officially became a state on 25 April 1952.^[2]

Geography[link]

Baden-Württemberg shares its borders with France, Switzerland, Rhineland Palatinate, Hesse and Bavaria.^[2]

Most of the major cities of Baden-Württemberg straddle the banks of the Neckar River, which runs downstream (from southwest to the centre, then northwest) through the state first past Tübingen, then Stuttgart, Heilbronn, Heidelberg, and Mannheim).

The Rhine (German: Rhein) forms the western border as well as large portions of the southern border. The Black Forest (Schwarzwald), the main mountain range of the state, rises east of the Rhine valley. The high plateau of the Swabian Alb, between the Neckar, the Black Forest and the Danube, is an important European watershed. Baden-Württemberg shares Lake Constance (Bodensee; the border with Switzerland is the middle of the lake) with Switzerland and it shares the foothills of the Alps (known as the Allgäu) with Bavaria and the Austrian Vorarlberg (but Baden-Württemberg does not border Austria over land).

The Danube (Donau) river has its source in Baden-Württemberg near the town of Donaueschingen, in a place called Furtwangen in the Black Forest.

Government[link]

Administration[link]

Stuttgart

Karlsruhe

Heidelberg

Freiburg

Mannheim

Ulm

Baden-Baden

Pforzheim

Baden-Württemberg is divided into 35 districts (Landkreise) and 9 independent cities (Stadtkreise), both grouped into the four Administrative Districts (Regierungsbezirke) of Freiburg, Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, and Tübingen.

Map

Furthermore there are nine independent cities, which do not belong to any district:

A. Baden-Baden
B. Freiburg
C. Heidelberg
D. Heilbronn
E. Karlsruhe
F. Mannheim
G. Pforzheim
H. Stuttgart
I. Ulm

Politics[link]

The state parliament of Baden-Württemberg is the Landtag (eng. State Diet or state assembly). The politics of Baden-Württemberg have traditionally been dominated by the conservative Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), who until 2011 had led all but one government since the establishment of the state in 1952. In the Landtag elections held on 27 March 2011 voters replaced the Christian Democrats and centre-right Free Democrats coalition by a Greens-led alliance with the Social Democrats which secured a four seat majority in the state parliament.
From 1992 to 2001, the anti-immigration Republicans party had seats in the Landtag.^[4]

Further supreme institutions of the state[link]

The Baden-Württemberg General Auditing Office acts as an independent body to monitor the correct use of public funds by public offices.^[5]

Economy[link]

Although Baden-Württemberg has relatively few natural resources compared to other regions of Germany,^[2] the state is among the most prosperous states^[3] and is one of the wealthiest regions in Europe with a traditionally low unemployment rate. A number of well-known enterprises are headquartered in the state, for example Daimler AG, Porsche, Robert Bosch GmbH (automobile industry), Carl Zeiss AG (optics), and SAP AG (largest software enterprise in Europe). In spite of this, Baden-Württemberg's economy is dominated by small and medium-sized enterprises. Although poor in workable natural resources (formerly lead, zinc, iron, silver, copper and salts) and still rural in many areas, the region is heavily industrialized. In 2003, there were almost 8,800 manufacturing enterprises with more than 20 employees, but only 384 with more than 500. The latter category accounts for 43% of the 1.2 million persons employed in industry. The Mittelstand or mid-sized company is the backbone of the Baden-Württemberg economy.^[6] Medium-sized businesses and a tradition of branching out into different industrial sectors have ensured specialization over a wide range. A fifth of the "old" Federal Republic's industrial gross value added is generated by Baden-Württemberg. Turnover for manufacturing in 2003 exceeded 240,000 million, 43% of which came from exports. The region depends to some extent on global economic developments, though the great adaptability of the region's economy has generally helped it through crises. Half of the employees in the manufacturing industry are in mechanical and electrical engineering and automobile construction. This is also where the largest enterprises are to be found. The importance of the precision mechanics industry also extends beyond the region's borders, as does that of the optical, clock making, toy, metallurgy and electronics industries. The textile industry, which formerly dominated much of the region, has now all but disappeared from Baden-Württemberg. Research and development (R&D) is funded jointly by the State and industry. In 2001, more than a fifth of the 100,000 or so persons working in R&D in Germany were located in Baden-Württemberg, most of them in the Stuttgart area.^[7] Baden-Württemberg is also one of the Four Motors for Europe.

A study performed in 2007 by the pr campaign "Initiative for New Social Market Economy" (German: Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft (INSM)) and the trade newspaper "Wirtschaftswoche" awarded Baden-Württemberg for being the "economically most successful and most dynamic state" among the 16 states.

Tourism[link]

Baden-Württemberg is a popular holiday destination. Main sights include the capital and biggest city, Stuttgart, modern and historic at the same time, with its urban architecture and atmosphere (and famously, its inner city parks and historic Wilhelma zoo), its castles (such as Castle Solitude), its (car and art) museums as well as a rich cultural programme (theatre, opera) and mineral spring baths in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt (also the site of a Roman Castra); it is the only major city in Germany with vineyards in an urban territory.

The residential (court) towns of Ludwigsburg and Karlsruhe, the spas and casino of luxurious Baden-Baden, the medieval architecture of Ulm (Ulm Münster is the tallest church in the world), the vibrant, young, but traditional university towns of Heidelberg and Tübingen with their old castles looking out above the river Neckar, are popular smaller towns. Sites of former monasteries such as the ones on Reichenau Island and at Maulbronn (both World Heritage Sites) as well as Bebenhausen Abbey are to be found. Baden-Württemberg also boasts rich old Free Imperial Cities such as Biberach, Esslingen am Neckar, Heilbronn, Ravensburg, Reutlingen and Schwäbisch Hall, as well as the southernmost and sunniest city of Germany, Freiburg, close to Alsace and Switzerland, being an ideal base for exploring the heights of the nearby Black Forest (e.g. for skiing in winter or for hiking in summer) with its traditional villages and the surrounding wine country of the Rhine Valley of South Baden.^[3]

The countryside of the lush Upper Neckar valley (where Rottweil is famous for its carnival (Fastnacht)) and the pristine Danube valley Swabian Alb (with Hohenzollern Castle), as well as the largely pristine Swabian Forest, the Rhine Valley and Lake Constance (German: Bodensee), where all kinds of water sports are popular, with the former Imperial, today border town of Konstanz (where the Council of Constance took place), the Neolithic and Bronze Age village at Unteruhldingen, the flower island of Mainau, and the hometown of the Zeppelin, Friedrichshafen a.o., are especially popular for outdoor activities in the summer months.^[3]

In spring and autumn (April/May and September/October), beer festivals (fun fairs) are taking place at the Cannstatter Wasen in Stuttgart; the one in the autumn, the Cannstatter Volksfest, is the second biggest such festival in the world after the Munich Oktoberfest. In late November/early December, Christmas markets are a tourist magnet in all major towns, with the biggest one in Stuttgart, lasting for the three weeks prior to Christmas.

The Bertha Benz Memorial Route is a 194 km signposted scenic route from Mannheim via Heidelberg and Wiesloch to Pforzheim and back, which follows the route of the world's first long-distance journey by automobile which Bertha Benz undertook in August 1888.

Companies owned by Baden-Württemberg[link]

Education[link]

University of Karlsruhe, since 2009: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Baden-Württemberg is home to some of the oldest, most renowned and prestigious universities in Germany, such as the universities of Heidelberg, Freiburg and Tübingen. It also contains four of the nine German 'excellence universities' (Heidelberg, Freiburg, Karlsruhe, and Konstanz).

Other university towns are Mannheim and Ulm. Furthermore, two universities are located in the state capital Stuttgart, the University of Hohenheim and the University of Stuttgart. Ludwigsburg is home to the renowned national film school Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg (Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg). The private International University in Germany is situated in Bruchsal. There is another private university, located in Friedrichshafen, Zeppelin University.

Furthermore, there are more than a dozen Fachhochschulen, i.e. universities of applied sciences, as well as Pädagogische Hochschulen, i.e. teacher training colleges, and other institutions of tertiary education in Baden-Württemberg (a.o. in Aalen, Biberach an der Riss, Esslingen, Karlsruhe, Ludwigsburg, Nürtingen, Pforzheim, Ravensburg-Weingarten, Reutlingen, several in Stuttgart, Schwäbisch Hall).

The state has the highest density of academic institutions of any territorial state (i.e. excluding Berlin and Hamburg) in Germany.

Dialects[link]

Two dialect groups of German are spoken in Baden-Württemberg in various variants: Alemannic and Franconian dialects. In central and southern Württemberg, the Alemannic dialect of Swabian is spoken (slightly differing even within the area, e.g. between Upper Swabia, the Swabian Alb and the central Neckar Valley of the Stuttgart region). In South Baden, the local dialects are Low Alemannic and High Alemannic (i.e. variants of what is also Swiss German). In the northern part of Baden, i.e. the former Kurpfalz (Electorate of the Palatinate) with the former capitals of Heidelberg and Mannheim, the idiom is Rhine Franconian (i.e. Palatinate German), while in the Northeast East Franconian is spoken.

The same or similar Alemannic dialects are also spoken in the neighbouring regions, especially in Bavarian Swabia, Alsace (Alsatian), German-speaking Switzerland (Swiss German) and the Austrian Vorarlberg, while the other Franconian dialects range from the Netherlands over the Rhineland, Lorraine and Hesse up to northern Bavaria Franconia.

Demographics[link]

The population of Baden-Württemberg is 10,749,755 (2008), of which 5,466,966 are female and 5,282,789 are male, total population up 0.10 per cent over a year earlier. This was due to more births than deaths. In 2006, the birth rate was 8.61 per 1000, lower than that of 8.80 per 1000 in 2005. The death rate decreased from 8.80 per 1000 in 2005 to 8.60 per 1000 in 2006. In 2008, nearly 14.87 percent of the population under the age of 15, fell from 15.13 per cent over a previous year. The proportion of people aged 65 and over rose from 18.72 per cent to 18.99 per cent. Correspondingly, the median age (aged 15–64) of the population fell from 66.15 to 66.14 over the same period. The ratio of people aged under 15 and aged 65 and over to the population of working age (aged 15–64), the overall dependency ratio is 512 per 1000 in 2008. The sex ratio of total population is 0.966 male(s)/female.^{[citation needed]}

Religion[link]

While Northern and most of central Württemberg has been traditionally Lutheran–Protestant (later also Pietist) since the Reformation that was adopted there in 1534 (with its center at the famous Tübinger Stift) and the former Electorate of the Palatinate (Northwestern Baden) with its capital Heidelberg was shaped by Calvinism before being integrated into Baden, Upper Swabia, the Upper Neckar Valley up to the bishop seat of Rottenburg and Southern Baden (the Catholic archbishop has its seat in Freiburg) have traditionally been bastions of Catholicism.

See also[link]

Germany portal

• Baden, for the pre-19th century state
• History of Baden
• Württemberg and History of Württemberg
• Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg
• Origin of the coats of arms of German federal states
• Grand Duchy of Baden, for the state that existed from 1808–1918
• Republic of Baden, for the state that existed from 1918–1945
• Rulers of Baden, for a list of sovereigns and presidents
• historical “Wappen” (coat of arms)
• List of places in Baden-Württemberg
• Four Motors of Europe
• Staatsoper Stuttgart (part of “Staatstheater”)
• The Baden State Theatre at Karlsruhe

Footnotes[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Baden-Württemberg

• Official website
• Baden-Württemberg at the Open Directory Project
• Geographic data related to Baden-Württemberg at OpenStreetMap

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Ruslan Chagaev
Statistics
Real name	Ruslan Chagaev
Nickname(s)	White Tyson
Rated at	Heavyweight
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Nationality	Uzbekistan
Born	(1978-10-19) October 19, 1978 (age 33) Andijan, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union
Stance	Southpaw
Boxing record
Total fights	32
Wins	29
Wins by KO	18
Losses	2
Draws	1
No contests	0

Medal record
Competitor for  Uzbekistan
Men’s Boxing
World Amateur Championships
Gold	Belfast 2001	Super Heavyweight

Ruslan Chagaev (Tatar Cyrillic: Руслан Шамил улы Чагаев, Latin: Ruslan Şamil ulı Çağaev; Russian: Руслан Шамилович Чагаев) born October 19, 1978 in Andijan, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union) is an Uzbekistani former WBA heavyweight boxing champion of Tatar ethnicity. As an amateur boxer, he has won the Asian and World Championships in the heavyweight (81–91 kg) category.

Chagaev won the WBA title in 2007 with a majority decision victory over Nikolai Valuev, but was made "champion in recess" after he sustained an injury. He relinquished the title after failing to have a rematch with Valuev. In his next fight, Chagaev lost by stoppage to IBF, WBO and IBO Champion Wladimir Klitschko.

Amateur career[link]

Chagaev, a two-time world amateur champion, defeated legendary Cuban boxer Félix Savón to capture the gold medal at the 1997 World Championships but was then stripped of his crown for having two professional fights prior to the championships. Chagaev was reinstated as an amateur the following year when the fights were declared exhibitions.

• 1995 Won the gold medal at the Asian Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan at Heavyweight.
• 1996 Represented Uzbekistan at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, United States at Heavyweight.
  • lost to Luan Krasniqi (Germany) PTS (4–12)
• 1996 Won a bronze medal at the Junior World Championships in Havanna, Cuba at Heavyweight.
  • def. Marat Tuchazyan (Armenia) RSC-3
  • lost to Yurkis Sterlin (Cuba) PTS (11–14)
• 1997 Won the gold medal (later stripped) at the 1997 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Budapest, Hungary at Heavyweight.
  • def. Jonie Amour Tancongco (Belarus) PTS (15–7)
  • def. Giacobbe Fragomeni (Italy) PTS (18–4)
  • def. Mike Hanke (boxer) (Germany) PTS (12–7)
  • def. Felix Savon (Cuba) PTS (14–4)
• 1998 Won the gold medal at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand at Heavyweight.
  • def. Muzaffar Iqbal Mirza (Pakistan) RSC-1
• 1999 International Boxing Cup
  • def. Felix Savon (Cuba) PTS (7–2)
• 1999 Represented Uzbekistan at the 1999 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Houston, Texas, United States at Heavyweight.
  • def. Garth Da Silva (New Zealand) PTS
  • def. David Turner (Australia) RSC-1
  • lost to Felix Savon (Cuba) PTS (1–9)
• 1999 Asian Championships – gold medal
• 2000 Represented Uzbekistan at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia at Heavyweight.
  • def. Alexander Yatsenko (Ukraine) PTS (15–2)
  • lost to Vladimer Chanturia (Georgia) PTS (12–18)
• 2001 Won the gold medal at the 2001 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Belfast, Northern Ireland at Super heavyweight.
  • def. Csaba Kurtucz (Hungary) RTD-2
  • def. Vitali Boot (Germany) RSCO-3
  • def. Alexei Mazikin (Ukraine) RTD-2

Chagaev vs Savón[link]

Chagaev is notable for being the only foreign fighter to defeat Félix Savón twice in the international competitions. First at the age of 19, he beat the then 2-time Olympic champion 14–4 to capture the 1997 World Heavyweight title. In 1999, he defeated him again 7–2 in the final of an international boxing cup in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Savon was able to avenge defeats in the 1999 World Championship, beating Chagaev 9–1.

Professional career[link]

Heavyweight[link]

Ruslan Chagaev (center) inside the ring with his coach Michael Timm (right) challenging Rob Calloway (left). January 7, 2006).

Having fought twice in 1997, Chagaev returned to amateur boxing. He turned pro fully in 2001, with the only flaw on his early record coming October 5, 2002 bout against Rob Calloway in Detroit, Michigan, United States. At the end of third round, the fight was stopped due to Calloway having a wound caused by a headbutt. Michigan boxing rule mandated that the fight be called a Technical Draw (TD) since the bout ended by an accidental foul. Usually four rounds are needed to go to the score cards for decision.

Chagaev slowly but steadily climbed up the heavyweight ranks, first avenging the no-contest with a brutal second round knockout of Calloway, then beating undefeated Ukrainian prospect Vladimir Virchis in a close and intense punchfest, and slowly took apart prominent British boxer Michael Sprott.

John Ruiz[link]

On November 18, 2006, he fought the former WBA champion John Ruiz, and prevailed in a close contest. He took a split decision with scores of 117–111 and 116–112 for Chagaev, and 115–114 for Ruiz. Chagaev became the mandatory challenger for a shot at Nikolai Valuev, the WBA heavyweight champion at the time. Chagaev defeated Valuev on April 14, 2007 by a majority decision (117–111, 115–113 and 114–114) to win the title.

On June 26, 2007, it was announced that Ruslan Chagaev would partake in a heavyweight unification bout with WBO heavyweight champion Sultan Ibragimov. The fight was due to take place in Moscow on October 13, 2007 and would have been the first heavyweight unification bout since 1999;^[1] however, Chagaev had to drop out of the fight after contracting hepatitis B.^[2] At that point, it was not clear whether he would have been able to compete at all, with WBA considering a championship tournament for Chagaev's crown.^[3] After Ibragimov defended his crown against Evander Holyfield, however, it was announced that Chagaev was able to recover.

Chagaev defended his WBA heavyweight title against Matt Skelton on January 19, 2008 by unanimous decision.

His next mandatory defense was to be a rematch on July 5, 2008 with Nikolai Valuev, who defeated former WBO champion Sergei Liakhovich by unanimous decision to earn the right. However, the fight had to be cancelled after Chagaev suffered a complete tear of an Achilles tendon during his final sparring session in preparation for the defense, causing Chagaev's second postponement of the match. The WBA elected to make Chagaev "Champion In Recess" due to the injury that Chagaev sustained and necessary recovery time and mandated that top-contenders Valuev and John Ruiz meet for the vacated title.^[4] By beating Ruiz, Valuev also became champion on August 30, 2008.

Chagaev returned from injury on February 7, 2009 with a victory over the then-unbeaten Costa Rican, Carl Davis Drumond to retain his title. The bout was decided by a controversial technical decision after Chagaev sustained a cut from an unintentional clash of heads. Chagaev and Nikolai Valuev were supposed to fight no later than June 26, 2009 to determine who the WBA regarded as their champion.^[5] They were scheduled to fight on 30 May 2009 in Helsinki, Finland at the Hartwall Arena, but Chagaev failed a Finnish medical test, allegedly due to hepatitis. On July 24, 2009, when the WBA published their Official Ratings as of June 2009, Chagaev was no longer the "Champion In Recess" but the #1 challenger instead.

Wladimir Klitschko[link]

Chagaev was defeated for the first time in his professional career in a bout with Wladimir Klitschko on 20 June 2009 with a 9th round ref stoppage. Klitschko retained his WBO, IBO & IBF crowns and won the vacant Ring magazine title. The fight was held at the Veltins Arena in Gelsenkirchen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, and Klitschko's WBO, IBO & IBF heavyweight titles were at stake.

The WBA title that he shared with Nikolai Valuev was not at stake, as the WBA confirmed Valuev was to be the WBA Champion.

WBA Title Eliminator[link]

Chagaev fought Kali Meehan (35–3; 29 KO) on May 22, 2010, in a WBA Heavyweight Title Eliminator at the Stadthalle in Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. The former WBA champion won the bout by unanimous decision with the scores of 117–111, 117–112 and 118–110.^[6]

Professional boxing record[link]

29 Wins (18 knockouts), 2 Losses, 1 Draw[7]
Result	Record	Opponent	Type	Rounds	Date	Location	Notes
Win	29-2-1	Billy Zumbrun	KO	3 (8), 1:26	21/04/2012	Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Win	28-2-1	Kertson Manswell	UD	8	28/01/2012	Rotherbaum, Hamburg, Germany
Loss	27-2-1	Aleksander Povetkin	UD	12	27/08/2011	Erfurt, Thüringen, Germany	For vacant WBA Heavyweight title.
Win	27-1-1	Travis Walker	UD	8	19/11/2010	Universum Gym, Wandsbek, Hamburg, Germany
Win	26-1-1	Kali Meehan	UD	12 (12)	2010-05-22	Rostock, Germany	WBA Heavyweight Title Eliminator.
Loss	25-1-1	Wladimir Klitschko	RTD	9 (12), 3:00	2009-06-20	Gelsenkirchen, Germany	For IBF, WBO, and IBO Heavyweight Titles; Chagaev's WBA title Was Not on the line.
Win	25-0-1	Carl Davis Drumond	TD	6 (12), 3:00	2009-02-07	Rostock, Germany	Defended WBA World Heavyweight Title; Fight was stopped due to an accidental headbutt.
Win	24-0-1	Matt Skelton	UD	12 (12)	2008-01-19	Düsseldorf, Germany	Defended WBA World Heavyweight Title.
Win	23-0-1	Nikolai Valuev	MD	12 (12)	2007-04-14	Stuttgart, Germany	Won WBA World Heavyweight Title. Valuev's first loss.
Win	22-0-1	John Ruiz	SD	12 (12)	2006-11-18	Düsseldorf, Germany	WBA Heavyweight Title Eliminator.
Win	21-0-1	Michael Sprott	TKO	8 (12), 2:54	2006-07-15	Hamburg, Germany	Defended WBA Inter-Cont. HW Title; Won Vacant WBO Asia Pacific HW Title.
Win	20-0-1	Volodymyr Vyrchys	MD	12 (12)	2006-03-11	Hamburg, Germany	Won WBO and WBA Inter-Cont. HW Titles.
Win	19-0-1	Rob Calloway	KO	2 (10), 2:10	2006-01-07	Munich, Germany
Win	18-0-1	Mark Krence	KO	5 (8), 1:28	2005-10-22	Halle, Germany
Win	17-0-1	Jucimar Francisco Hipolito	TKO	1 (8), 0:50	2005-09-28	Hamburg, Germany
Win	16-0-1	Sherman Williams	UD	8 (8)	2005-03-26	Riesa, Germany
Win	15-0-1	Tommy Connelly	TKO	2 (8), 1:51	2004-12-14	Sölden, Austria
Win	14-0-1	Asmir Vojnovic	TKO	4 (10), 0:45	2004-11-16	Cuxhaven, Germany
Win	13-0-1	Willie Williams	KO	3 (8), 2:25	2004-10-26	Rostock, Germany
Win	12-0-1	Garing Lane	KO	5 (8), 1:46	2004-07-31	Stuttgart, Germany
Win	11-0-1	Sedreck Fields	KO	2 (8), 2:45	2004-06-22	Telfs, Austria	Rematch.
Win	10-0-1	Wade Lewis	KO	1 (6), 2:33	2004-05-18	Lübeck, Germany
Win	9-0-1	Alexey Varakin	KO	2 (6), ?:??	2004-03-30	Aachen, Germany
Win	8-0-1	Sedreck Fields	UD	6	2004-02-17	Lübeck, Germany
Win	7-0-1	Daniel Frank	KO	2 (6), 0:54	2003-11-18	Wandsbek, Germany
Win	6-0-1	Zakeem Graham	TKO	3 (10), 2:26	2003-05-22	Yonkers, USA
Draw	5-0-1	Rob Calloway	TD	3 (10), 2:41	2002-10-05	Detroit, USA
Win	5–0	Chris Isaac	UD	8	2002-05-11	Biloxi, USA
Win	4–0	Val Smith	KO	1 (4), 2:26	2002-01-14	Las Vegas, USA
Win	3–0	Everett Martin	TKO	4 (4), ?	2001-09-21	Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Win	2–0	Brian Jones	KO	2 (4), 1:10	1997-09-03	Rosemont, USA
Win	1–0	Donnie Penelton	KO	1 (4), 2:30	1997-08-21	Aurora, USA	Chagaev's professional debut.