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Nearly two years ago, the boxing promoter Dino Duva sat in a Manhattan restaurant, put down his chop sticks and pointed across the table to the 6-6 Chinese super heavyweight Zhang Zhilei and announced his intention to make Zhilei into boxing’s version of Yao Ming.
It was an impressive boast that seemed filled with possibility at the time. Ming was tearing up the NBA with the Houston Rockets and Zhilei had the physical attributes to one day do the same in boxing; Duva, the son of legendary trainer Lou Duva, was sitting in a Chinese eatery surrounded by reporters that day, explaining a deal he had struck with the Chinese Boxing Federation, the boxing arm of the state government, to market and promote boxing in China, to build up the country’s amateur system into a world power.
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It was an impressive boast that seemed filled with possibility at the time. Ming was tearing up the NBA with the Houston Rockets and Zhilei had the physical attributes to one day do the same in boxing; Duva, the son of legendary trainer Lou Duva, was sitting in a Chinese eatery surrounded by reporters that day, explaining a deal he had struck with the Chinese Boxing Federation, the boxing arm of the state government, to market and promote boxing in China, to build up the country’s amateur system into a world power.
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