Comments Thread For: Zou Shiming Pushes Forward, Back on Pacquiao-Rios Card

[citynation]

It's Zou's second fight as a pro. People need to relax. Simple and plain. He will improve.

[BoxingFan82]

It's Zou's second fight as a pro. People need to relax. Simple and plain. He will improve.

This would be a fair argument if in Zou's second pro fight, he didn't completely ignore his skills and come in hell-bent on walking through his opponent for the sake of looking spectacular.

The problem: instead of destroying his inexperienced 19 year-old opponent, Zou employed little skill, ate a lot of shots he doesn't need to be eating at this stage of his career, was visibly winded throughout the fight and ultimately still failed to close the show.

I respect the money angle here, but it's disappointing to see a fighter with a supposedly great amateur background and two Olympic gold medals take the approach Zou took tonight. This might be lucrative in the short-term, but Zou will never become a great professional fighter this way and eventually he'll be Pacquiao'd if they put him in with better fighters.

[richardt]

I think maybe an obsolete juanma lopez could destroy zou out!

Have you even heard of Weight Divisions??????? Zou is a Flyweight! JuanMa is a Featherweight, duh.

[RisAri0]

Only problem I have with him is that he's 32 with a 2-0 record. I just can't see him go far in boxing but China's own.

[uniquehump]

HBO is so sad now when two 12 round fights are the undercard of a 6 round fight. shm. The best thing they got going on is Michael Buffer.

[HeroBando]

HBO is so sad now when two 12 round fights are the undercard of a 6 round fight. shm. The best thing they got going on is Michael Buffer.

Clueless. Zou is a special attraction on a tape delayed non prime time show on HBO2 that cost them a fraction of Berto's purse. For the western audience it's a walkout bout. For the Chinese that's main event, money talks. And it's a ****load of money to tap into.

What you need to compare to is Showtime Extreme, that's the budget and slot you're dealing with. Was Anthony Dirrell undercard to that 4 round mismatch last night?