Could the next great heavyweight being chinese?.

China doing alright in olympic boxing.. I think it depends on how fleetfooted a chinese heavy weight can be.

I was just thinking now that china has become an industriaiised country and is well on its way to becoming the wealthiest nation on earth. If the chinese take up boxing could they dominate it including the heavyweight divsion. they dont like boxing that much in china so i dont think so. i think there could be some good heavyweights from cuba if they could leave there country.

Lets get the biggest freaks we can find, and teach them to box, The fact that they are gigantic will make up for their crappy skills.

Asian takeover! There are billions of citizens in China I think aet least a few could become some good boxers, in the higher weight classes I am not so sure.

Boxing is not the chinese main interest but if they wanted to become good at it and the government gave it importance then China would do well, like they do well at most sports they put there mind to, whether it is swimming or athletics. The 110metre world record holder is chinese. Good coaches would have to go out to china and teach them at grass roots though.

Why couldnt the next great heavyweight be Chinese? That would be awesome to see someone new. Hell, Id just be happy if we could have more then one good heavyweight at a time. We got Wlad right now, and not much else. Boxing needs the heavyweight division to be great, and it is ass right now.

I enquired about the Chinese amateur HWs in another forum and got some more info on them: ive been trying to find information on these two, mostly Zhang Zhilei, for a long time. I haven't found one shred of information on them other than results. I have found only one picture of each, its hard to see either of their faces though. Looking through the results its evident that Nijiati is a young fighter who just now has come into China number 1 Heavyweight. Zhilei seems to have been China's number 1 for a while, and has shown marked improvement over the years. Some Past results.. Yushun Nijiati 2005 Junior Asian Bronze Medal (L-Ahror Muralimov 39-23) Zhang Zhilei 2003 World Championship (L-Grzegorz Kiełsa 22:8 ) 2005 World Championship Top 8 (1-1 W-Vugar Alekperov 20:11, L-Olandier Solis 17:7) 2007 Asian Games Silver Medal (L-Rustam Saidov 14:3) They're both tall and pretty ponderous. Zhang especially is massive, easily the biggest fighter I saw (people laughed and gasped when he would come out) but very slow in kind of a Hulk smash way. He knocked out the Australian with a wide, cuffing right hand, but I figured he would lose to Glazkov. Glazkov is pretty decent, nothing special, but has much better skills and faster hands. Yushan did well, but his competition was not that tough. He beat fighters from Australia, New Zealand, Jordan, and Hungary - and only barely beat the Jordanian. Yushan Nijiati zhang zhilei This is thought to be another pick of zhang zhilei, with Sulaiman (fucking giant).

Did you see these chineses guys fight? . Could they be the next great heavyweights?. No, I just read the results online. World championships website: http://www.aiba.org/ Pdf file of medal winners: http://www.aiba.org/documents/site1/wch_chicago/C93.PDF Heavy 91 kg 3 NOV 2007 GOLD RUSSO Clemente ITA SILVER CHAKHKEIV Rakhim RUS BRONZE M'BUMBA John FRA YUSHAN Nijiati CHN Super Heavy +91 kg 3 NOV 2007 GOLD CAMMARELLE Roberto ITA SILVER GLAZKOV Vyacheslav UKR BRONZE TIMURZIEV Islam RUS ZHANG Zhilei CHN

there not all short the tallest man in teh world is chinese http://i11.tinypic.com/8fecwa9.jpg

Chinese boxers took bronze at the World Championships at both HW and Super HW. People may be talking about this again after the olympics, just wait. Did you see these chineses guys fight? . Could they be the next great heavyweights?.

granted yao ming is super tall he probobly couldnt fight his way out of a paper bag. about 95% of basketball players are pussies. This should of been figured out by Highschool when you watched your team play and saw fouls because one man "slapped" another mans hand. "Wrestling is what MEN do during boys basketball season."

You're kidding right? no. I mean how does someone who has multi racial genes have a better chance of possessing athletic ability.

Chinese boxers took bronze at the World Championships at both HW and Super HW. People may be talking about this again after the olympics, just wait.

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2006/01/18/yao_ming_narrowweb__300x528,0.jpg yao ming..

What has ethnic diversity got to do with it?. You're kidding right?

300 million is the second largest country out there. china's got a big population but msot are probably working. india is also big but when the average person is poor then psort is not a big thing that they can do. You say the U.S. is the second largest country out there and then you mention india which has what, a billion?

The reason americans do so well in all sports, imo, is because of the ethnic diversity that we have here, something that is lacking in China. yuo guys dominate quite a few track sports, swimming and boxing, but not every sport that the world competes at. sports like baseball isn't a world's sport if you know what i mean. 300 million is the second largest country out there. china's got a big population but msot are probably working. india is also big but when the average person is poor then psort is not a big thing that they can do.

The reason americans do so well in all sports, imo, is because of the ethnic diversity that we have here, something that is lacking in China. What has ethnic diversity got to do with it?.

There is a big difference between one and a half billion people and 300 million people and the americans arent dominating because all their potential heavyweight are playing basketball and american football. The reason americans do so well in all sports, imo, is because of the ethnic diversity that we have here, something that is lacking in China.

i dont think the diet of the chinese will allow them to gain the power needed, they will have speed and energy but power is very important The americans aren't dominating with a population of 300 million. So I get your point. There is a big difference between one and a half billion people and 300 million people and the americans arent dominating because all their potential heavyweight are playing basketball and american football.