On June 2 this year, Zhang Zhilei knocked out Wilder in a heavyweight battle held in Saudi Arabia for 5 rounds, creating a new chapter in China's professional boxing, so in the past month, boxing hero Zhang Zhilei's every move has become a hot topic among tens of millions of netizens. Recently, there is exciting news in the Chinese professional boxing circle, that is, there is the first boxer in China to hit the official world gold belt in the heavyweight division, this person is also surnamed Zhang, named Zhang Zhaoxin!
According to Liu Gang, China's No. 1 boxing promoter, Zhang Zhaoxin, nicknamed "Sandstorm", will be airborne in Russia on July 12 to attack the WBA super welterweight world belt!
If he wins, Zhang Zhaoxin will become the first Chinese to win the official world heavyweight boxing belt, and then rewrite the entire history of Chinese professional boxing!
In fact, the upper limit of weight in the super welterweight class is 224 pounds, and the lower limit of weight is 201 pounds, which means that the upper and lower weight limits of the super heavyweight class have met the requirements of the weight class, but the two major boxing organizations of the WBA and WBC have subdivided the weight open weight class into the weight open weight class from the perspective of the fairness of the boxer's physical condition, and the boxer weighing less than 224 pounds is classified into the super weight class, but this weight is still a heavyweight class in the IBF and WBO.
Zhang Zhaoxin is only 28 years old this year, there is a lot of room for future development, he has previously challenged the WBA welterweight ordinary world boxing champion Merry, despite the loss, Zhang Zhaoxin showed not afraid of strong opponents, dare to fight and dare to fight fine style.
On July 12, Zhang Zhaoxin will come to Russia again to play away, and the strength of the opponent is stronger than the Romanov he met in February this year!
It is understood that Zhang Zhaoxin will face 27-year-old Russian boxer Gazmagomedov this time. Although Gazmagomedov has only played 3 professional games, he has a lot of experience in the system, he won the silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and also won the gold medals at the 2019 and 2023 World Championships.
It is foreseeable that Zhang Zhaoxin is facing unimaginable difficulties in this battle, after all, Gazmagomedov is only 27 years old, and his state is on the rise, so Zhang Zhaoxin is not favored by the industry before the game, and even many people think that he will be knocked out prematurely by Gazmagomedov, but don't forget, Zhang Zhaoxin was not favored before the battle against Romanov in February this year, and was knocked down by his opponent in the first round. staged a counter-attack that shocked everyone's attention, and knocked the opponent to the ground in the second round!
This time in the face of the extremely powerful Gazmagomedov, can Zhang Zhaoxin still create a miracle?
The author can't predict and won't make a prediction, because anything can happen in the heavyweight division, and any inadvertent punch has the potential to rewrite history! If the miracle is repeated, Zhang Zhaoxin will completely break the embarrassing history of "China has no heavyweight official world boxing champion", and then be forever recorded in history! As for the outcome of the historic battle on July 12, let's wait and see!