Who Is Zhilei Zhang? | The Big Bang | China's First Heavyweight World Champion [张志磊]

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Zhilei Zhang is a heavyweight on the up who seems intent on keeping his name in the headlines – this time having a pop at one of his rivals, claiming he ‘couldn’t beat anyone’.

Zhang has catapulted himself into world title contention by twice knocking out previously unbeaten and highly rated Brit, Joe Joyce.

The 40-year-old is the current WBO mandatory challenger and knows the clock is ticking on his career. He only has interest in fighting the biggest names in the sport, having previously called out Tyson Fury, Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk.

It’s the WBC champion who Zhang has taken a shot at after he edged a split decision victory over former UFC star, Francis Ngannou.

Zhang was far from impressed with Fury’s performance and can no longer see him beating ‘anybody.’

“Based on the performance over the weekend, I don’t think Tyson Fury can beat anybody. Definitely not Usyk, not me, not Joshua, he’s not right.”

Ngannou shocked the world by taking ‘The Gypsy King’ to the scorecards, knocking him down in the process.

Before the fight, most gave the boxing debutant no hope of getting the better of the man plenty regarded as the number one heavyweight on the planet, but now some feel he even did enough to get his hand raised.

A lot of the pre-fight talk was about the signed undisputed fight against Usyk, which was originally planned for December 23. Given the tough night Fury endured against the MMA champion, his promoter, Frank Warren, has now ruled out the clash taking place on that date but insists it will happen in early 2024.

Zhilei Zhang was no fan of the way Tyson Fury comported himself in the ring against Francis Ngannou.

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The Chinese heavyweight contender joined legions of viewers who felt England’s Fury, the WBC titlist, woefully underperformed against the untested Ngannou of Cameroon in their high-profile 10-round heavyweight contest on Saturday night in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Ngannou, who made his professional boxing debut on this night, scored a shocking knockdown of Fury in the third round but would go on to lose by razor close split decision.

One judge had Ngannou winning 95-94, but he was overruled by two other judges that had it 95-94 and 96-93 for Fury.

Zhang felt Ngannou did enough to eke out a win, which the Chinese southpaw viewed as disgraceful, considering Fury’s credentials.

“To be honest with you, I got Francis Ngannou [winning],” Zhang told Boxing News. “If you count that knockdown, it’s a 10-8 round. And throughout the whole fight, he was landing more power shots and he was being aggressive. Fury didn’t throw a lot of punches for some reason. He was just holding himself back and controlling the distance with his jab.

“I think it’s a night of shame for the sport of professional boxing.”

Zhang, who is coming off a second consecutive stoppage of Joe Joyce in the fall, felt Fury’s performance damaged boxing’s reputation.

“To be honest, I think it’s bad for boxing,” Zhang said. “People like myself we’re training hard every day and we want to deliver a professional performance and what Fury did last night was just bad for the sport of boxing. He might have money and people behind him to support him but in another way it’s just bad for the sport overall.”

Fury is now expected to enter into an undisputed heavyweight championship against WBO, WBA, IBO, IBF champion Oleksandr Usyk.

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