Zou Shiming: record, next fight and profile →
Donnie Nietes, the longest reigning Filipino champion, told BoxingScene.com/Manila Standard upon his arrival from Los Angeles - “I’ll fight anybody for the flyweight title” which looms following his impressive debut at 112 pounds where he scored a shutout 120-108 decision over former world light flyweight champion Edgar Sosa of Mexico at the StubHub Center on Saturday.
LAS VEGAS, NEV. - Three action-packed world championship fights will act as co-main events to the MANNY “Pacman” PACQUIAO - JESSIE VARGAS World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight world title fight, Saturday, November 5, at the Thomas & Mack Center on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Promoted by Top Rank, in association with MP Promotions and Wynn Las Vegas, the Pacquiao - Vargas world welterweight championship event will be produced and distributed live by Top Rank Pay-Per-View, beginning at 9:00 p.m. ET / 6:00 p.m. PT, and will be available on all conventional platforms, including all major cable and satellite systems, as well as Top Rank's digital distribution via www.TopRank.tv and mobile devices. Photos by Mikey Williams.
Despite a relatively low-quality bout, Zou Shiming's victorious overseas debut on Saturday should pave the way for Chinese boxing to join the sport's international mainstream.
The Theater, Madison Square Garden, New York - Zou Shiming'?s defense of his WBO international flyweight title was a painful exercise to witness thanks to a bizarre game plan from Hungary's Jozsef Ajtai, but the two-time Olympic gold medalist from China dealt with it and logged his eighth pro win by way of a 10-round unanimous decision.
Chinese boxing icon Zou Shiming is making his U.S. debut Saturday night at Madison Square Garden in New York City. At the place where his idol Muhammad Ali used to fight, the flyweight will play against Hungarian Jozsef Ajtai.
Photos Lomachenko Martinez Weigh-in - Three-time world champion ROMAN "Rocky" MARTINEZ (29-2-3, 17 KOs), from Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, and World Boxing Organization (WBO) featherweight world champion VASYL LOMACHENKO (5-1, 3 KOs), of Odessa, Ukraine, will go mano a mano for Martinez's WBO junior lightweight world title. Photos by Mikey Williams/Top Rank.
Zou Shiming is not the main attraction for U.S. boxing fans on Saturday's Madison Square Garden theater card that includes rising star Vasyl Lomachenko. HBO won't even show Zou's fight.
Two- time Chinese Olympic Gold Medalist Zou Shiming (7-1, 2 KO's) worked out with Freddie Roach and his team this afternoon at Mendez Boxing Gym in Manhattan, New York in preparation for his first bout inside the United States.
'Return of the King,' which featured the return of two-time Olympic gold medalist and Chinese icon ZOU SHIMING in the main event, attracted an enormous audience of 36.5 million viewers. The January 30 live telecast, which emanated from the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai, China, boasted 6.5 million viewers who watched on television on CCTV 5 and 30 million viewers who saw the fights via live stream. Over 12,000 fans were on hand to see it live.
On January 30th at the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, two-time gold medalist Zou Shiming scored an eighth round stoppage of Natan Santana Coutinho. In the past, Shiming headlined in Macao but with the downturn in the casino business over there, the focus of Top Rank's Asian boxing program has shifted.