Zhang isn’t sure where his size comes from. Both his parents were under 6 feet. His brother and sister—Zhang is the youngest of three—are as well. He’s heard stories about his great-grandfather being big but can’t say for certain. “Maybe,” muses Zhang, “some kind of genetic mutation.”
“We went through the whole list, a lot of fighters didn’t want to fight with me and I’m glad that we found one who wants that,” said Hrgovic in his press conference. “Thanks to Zhang and his team, I think we’ll make a great fight.
Zhang, like George’s situation, understands more English than he can speak, but when George corrects something that isn’t to the American perfectionist’s liking, Zhang responds, “Yes sir.” The goal, it would seem, is to have Zhang absorb George’s smooth, New York-style boxing to go along with his innate physical abilities.
Round 10: TWO BIG RIGHTS from Richards. Instead of boxing puerto rican boxers and preserving his lead, Hutchinson is trading with him. It looks like he’s fading—another right from Richards. Hutchinson looks like he’s fading fast here and Richards could be on the cusp of a sensational comeback. Two big rights land from Hutchinson in a crazy round. HUGE attack from Hutchinson, who turns it all around. BIG right hand from Hutchinson, whose nose is gushing blood.
Wilder shoots a right hand. Zhang a left to the body. Zhang using that size early to push Wilder around. Both men taking their time. This is all about one, single shot from either side. Zhang shoots a left to the body as Wilder retreats out. Wilder fires a right that misses.
Round 8: Left hand scores again from Ford, who is going through the gears now. The New Jersey-based star is immensely skilled and he picks Ball off again with a huge left uppercut. Blood is pouring from the challenger’s nose and he’s distracted by the injury.
Round 4: Ford is cut beneath the right eye. The champ with blazing hand speed having fun with the one-two. The Englishman opens up with an impressive attack. BIG left from Ball. A leaping jab from the challenger. Ford suddenly loses accuracy. The right hand from Ball lands hard. Very effective attacks from the challenger throughout the round.
“I had to use my whizzer, which was a fake penis where you put in someone’s clean urine to pass your drug test,” Tyson explained. He added that he’d been high on cocaine when he bit Lewis’s leg in 2002.
With reports that Joyce has put on weight since losing their first encounter, Zhang has introduced three new sparring partners familiar with the brutal heavyweight world – Alonzo Neal, Dimitri Besuz and Mariusz Wach – to help get into shape.
George saw something different. Back in Jersey, George worked to fine-tune Zhang’s skills. Chin tucked lower. Hands held higher. “At the same time, not change him so much where he doesn’t know how to use his feet,” says George. “Because he’s actually really quick on his feet. But you guys don’t know yet. He has pretty good hand speed, but you guys are actually just noticing now.”
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Zhilei Zhang (Chinese: 张志磊; pinyin: Zhāng Zhìlěi; born May 2, 1983) is a Chinese professional boxer. He held the World Boxing Organization (WBO) interim heavyweight title between 2023 and March 2024. As of June 2024, Zhang is ranked as the world’s fifth-best active heavyweight by The Ring magazine.
Zhang’s fight with Jerry Forrest was on the undercard of the super-middleweight title fight between Canelo Álvarez and Avni Yıldırım. Although Zhang started strongly, scoring three knockdowns in the opening three rounds, Zhang completely gassed out from the fourth round and Forrest was able to battle his way back to earn a majority draw. The final scorecards read 95–93 Forrest, 93–93, and 93–93, with the irregular scores owing to a point deduction against Zhang for excessive holding. Many fans thought Zhang vs. Forrest was a better fight than the main bout.
In the quarterfinals of the 2012 London Olympics, Zhang lost to Anthony Joshua. A year later, after winning a championship at the National Games of China, Zhang retired from the national team at age 30, laying his jersey in the center of the ring after his final fight. Then it was off to New Jersey, but not before he decided to leave his wife and son in China.
It’s not a dragon on his right forearm, it’s a tiger. I worked with the artist who did the tattoo at Diversity tattoo in Las Vegas (right next to the Stratosphere) on the strip near Sahara Street. We were all using stripper names so I never got the artist’s real name. He was a funny guy. He complained once about not having a girlfriend and always having to “pay for it”. Cracked me up!
