Anyone heard of this 7' foot boxer?

[djeffectz]

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2378036-taishan-dong-the-chinese-7-footer-ready-to-dominate-boxing-world?utm_source=cnn.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=editorial

[TBear]

Yes, his bouts have been aired on Fox Sports. Right now he is testing the waters by fighting grandma's.

[-Johannes-]

This is going to sound like an understatement but he sucks ballz...

[////]

Geez when will mainstream sports websites stop comparing every tall foreign guy to Ivan Drago because they haven't watched since '82

"Boxing Now Has Real-Life Ivan Drago"

Really?

[KO'er]

Appearently he hasn't had any amateur career at all, his professional boxing career so far is his only experience.

I'm not so sure what to think of him, we all know what happened to Tye Fields.

[TexasGunslinger]

I watched him fight on fox sports. Seems like a freak show-type fighter.

[kafkod]

Bscene ran an article about Dong a couple of weeks back, with videos. He was a kickboxer in China before he came to the states to try his hand at boxing. Buddy Mcgirt is training him and it looks to me like the big guy has some talent.

[GhostBlade]

This guy is just a cash grab heavyweight. The fact that he's also Chinese adds to that appeal. People around him will make money from him and then he'll get dropped as soon as he takes a few losses in his career. He's big, strong but extremely limited. It takes more than size and power to be a good boxer. As bad as the heavyweight division seems to be, he still won't cut it.

[f15bone]

Interesting...

[SN!PER]

They're trying to take advantage of the fact that HW division has no upper limit. Too bad that strategy fails because these monster-sized guys have no coordination or speed.