If he wins he becomes a national hero by getting rid of Wladimir Klitschko.
Correspondents say the athlete's arrest has stunned the country where he is considered a national hero.
Yet he has become something of a national hero, particularly for standing up to the West.
With a "glorious victory" at Nahr el-Bared behind him, Suleiman is being hailed as a national hero.
Vijender Singh became a national hero when he won a bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Ray Odierno, described him as "a national hero" in a joint statement that expressed sadness over the death.
Uchishiba brought gold medals home from the Athens and Beijing Games, and was feted as a national hero.
They wish the Uzbeks would make a national hero of somebody less aggressive.
The early success of Egyptian pilots against Israel made him a national hero, and Sadat made him vice president in 1975.
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But the case is still a sensitive topic in Italy, where Calipari is considered to be a national hero killed by trigger-happy Americans.
But with the Saudi a national hero in Pakistan, any move by Musharraf to facilitate his handover would prompt an outcry at home.
The case has aroused huge interest both in South Africa, where Oscar Pistorius is regarded as a national hero, and around the world.
Obama was poised to be a national hero given his perfect timing, with the typical post recession boom starting in his first year.
Four soldiers, rifles at rest, stood guard as ordinary New Zealanders said goodbye to a national hero, whose achievements are known around the world.
Wanniarachchi's gold medal was his country's first in boxing in 72 years, and he was hailed as a national hero when he returned home.
Surgeons have removed a bullet from Malala's head and she has become a national hero amid global condemnation of the attempt on her life.
The cyclist known as Wiggo, whose long sideburns have led the British public to dub him a "Mod, " has risen rapidly to become a national hero.
After becoming the first Arab to sail around the world, Al Busaidi became a national hero in Oman and an ambassador for the "Omani Sail" project.
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Yao is a national hero in his homeland, and the news has prompted a frenzy of postings on the internet, arguing about the why's and wherefore's of his injury.
It had already cost Mr Fujimori a minister he could ill afford to lose: the foreign minister, Francisco Tudela, who became a national hero during this year's hostage crisis.
Chinese officials say that is because the final choice on who will ride the rocket and thereby become a national hero to 1.3 billion people still has not been made.
Orphaned during the revolutionary war, Jackson rose from nothing to prominence in the fights against the native Indians, and he later became a national hero at the end of the war of 1812.
Mr Golborne, a former manager at a retail company who spent weeks at the mine overseeing the operation, has become a national hero, prompting speculation that he may run for president in 2014.
He remains a national hero in Wales - the nation's all-time record goal scorer with 28 goals in 73 matches - as well as a legend on Merseyside for a glittering top-level career with Liverpool.
Koumas could have saved his side's blushes instead his weak 66th minute penalty was palmed out by Agaev and the Azeri 'keeper ensured his place as a national hero as he saved Koumas' equally inept rebound.
Wisdom's 50-year-career has seen him acclaimed in Britain and elevated to cult status abroad - he is treated almost as a national hero in, of all places, Albania, where his slapstick films were among the few western movies available during the country's Communist regime.
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