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Popular Chinese Olympian Zou Shiming said he was eyeing up a world title after he won his debut professional fight on Saturday, defeating little-known Mexican Eleazar Valenzuela on a unanimous points decision in Macau.
The two-time Olympic gold medallist and three-time amateur world champion emerged from a tight contest over four rounds, all three judges giving him victory 40-36. Zou reportedly pocketed $US 300,000 ($A289,000) for his night's work.
No Chinese boxer has been as successful as Zou, 31, in the amateur ranks and his eagerly anticipated professional debut, in a sport once banned in China under Mao Zedong, was expected to draw hundreds of millions of television viewers in China.
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The two-time Olympic gold medallist and three-time amateur world champion emerged from a tight contest over four rounds, all three judges giving him victory 40-36. Zou reportedly pocketed $US 300,000 ($A289,000) for his night's work.
No Chinese boxer has been as successful as Zou, 31, in the amateur ranks and his eagerly anticipated professional debut, in a sport once banned in China under Mao Zedong, was expected to draw hundreds of millions of television viewers in China.
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