Could the next great heavyweight being chinese?.

[Drunken Cat]

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.

[catskills23]

You're kidding right?

no. I mean how does someone who has multi racial genes have a better chance of possessing athletic ability.

[Kayo]

granted yao ming is super tall he probobly couldnt fight his way out of a paper bag. about 95% of basketball players are *******. 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."

[catskills23]

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?.

[revs1227]

there not all short the tallest man in teh world is chinese

[Drunken Cat]

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

[Drunken Cat]

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 (****ing giant).

[Motofan]

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.

[hugh grant]

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.

[SkillspayBills]

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.