Claressa Shields and the 13 best multiple-time Olympic gold medalists as pros
Of those 25 people to stand atop the Olympic podium multiple times, 13 have fought professionally. Dustin Wiens ranks how their pro careers fared.
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Zou Shiming: I Don't Have The Courage To Retire at The Moment
Two-time Olympic gold medal winner Zou Shiming is not prepared to announce his retirement. Shiming, who turns 37 in May, is at a crossroads in his life after sustaining optic nerve and bone socket injuries to his left eye in December. The boxer was rushed to hospital after suddenly losing sight in his eye on the flight home to Shanghai.
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Zou Shiming Refuses To Retire, Vows To Fight Again
Olympic gold medal winner Zou Shiming has vowed to fight on in spite of a serious eye condition which threatened to curtail his fighting career. A few weeks ago, Shiming was revealed to be suffering from a serious eye condition after losing partial sight in his left eye during a flight from Beijing to Shanghai following the Laureus China Top Ten Sports Awards.
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Zou Shiming Still Dealing With Eye Issues, Career Feared Over
China’s two-time Olympic champion Zou Shiming on Friday came out fighting from severe eye problems that look likely to end his career, declaring defiantly: “I’m still me.” The 36-year-old, who lost the first defence of his WBO flyweight world title in July of last year, sought immediate hospital treatment last month after suddenly losing much of the sight in his left eye.
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Zou Shiming's Wife Alleges Boxer Owed Money, Forced To Fight
As BoxingScene.com reported last week, the career of two-time Olympic gold medal winner Zou Shiming is in jeopardy due to serious health problems related to his left eye. Zou was sent to a hospital in Shanghai last week following the sudden loss of vision in his left eye on a flight from Beijing last week. Now there is a lot of controversy, after Zou’s wife, Ran Yingying, made allegations against the boxer's agent.
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Zou Shiming's Career in Jeopardy, Suspected Detached Retina
Chinese boxing superstar Zou Shiming’s career is in jeopardy after the former WBO flyweight world champion suffered a suspected detached retina on a flight home. Zou was returning to Shanghai from Beijing, where he attended the Laureus China Top Ten Sports Awards, when he complained to his wife, Ran Yingying, that he might have lost vision in his left eye on Thursday.
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Zou Shiming in No Hurry To Walk Away From The Sport
THREE days after Zou Shiming lost his first WBO world title to Japan’s Sho Kimura in Shanghai on July 28, China’s best-known boxer made it known on his personal Weibo account that he had no plans to retire. “I believe in fate, but I’m not resigned to it. Life goes on, so does fighting. A man must continue fighting to recover what he has lost,” the 36-year-old Guizhou Province native said.
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Zou Shiming: I'll Fight Until My Last Breath To Recover My Belt!
Chinese boxing star Zou Shiming vowed Monday to "fight until my last breath" to recover the title he lost in Shanghai when he was knocked out in his first defence of the WBO flyweight crown. Two-time Olympic gold medallist Zou was a strong favourite to beat Sho Kimura on Friday, but he ran out of juice as the fight wore on and the younger Japanese silenced a rowdy home crowd with an 11th-round upset victory.
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Sho Kimura Blasts Zou Shiming in Shocker To Win WBO Title
Kimura, given no chance by bookies at 10-1 and only ranked seventh in the WBO, stopped the two-time Olympic champion with a flourish of punches late in the 11th round of the 12-round contest before Zou collapsed under the onslaught and waved no more to a stunned capacity crowd at the Shanghai Oriental Sports Centre.
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Zou Shiming and the Flyweight Remains
Tomorrow in Shanghai, 36-year old Zou Shiming (9-1, 2 KO) will attempt to add the one thing currently missing from his trophy case. He’s got three Olympic Gold medals. He’s got three additional amateur world championships. Last November, in his second chance to snag it, he added a major professional title, winning the vacant IBF flyweight title in a rematch with a Thailand’s Kwanpichit OnesongchaitGym.
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