Earlier this yr, China’s Zhilei Zhang scored an enormous knockout win towards the previous boxing world champion Deontay Wilder, however now each heavyweight is scared to face him. ‘Huge Bang’ Zhang spoke with LowKickMMA and AceOdds for an interview to debate his most up-to-date win.
Zhilei Zhang Knocks Out Deontay Wilder
As an newbie, the southpaw Zhilei Zhang gained a silver medal on the 2008 Beijing Olympics and bronze medals on the 2007 and 2009 World Championships. As an expert, Zhang has compiled a powerful report of 27 wins with 22 of his victories coming by knockout. At a towering 6’6″ the previous WBO interim heavyweight title holder packs critical energy.
Regardless of struggling a loss to Joseph Parker in March 2024, Zhang bounced again with a notable victory over former WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder in June 2024. However now, again within the prime 5, after his main win, most different heavyweights on the prime are too scared to face him. Chatting with him in an interview, Zhilei Zhang defined:
“It’s a double-edged sword. The great factor is after I misplaced to Parker in March, I used to be form of out of the combo, however with the victory, I used to be again within the combine once more. That’s the advantage of it. It put my profession proper again on observe.
“The detrimental facet is that after knocking out Wilder, folks take a look at me like, he’s from one other planet. They don’t need to battle me. They take a look at me like any person they need to keep away from in any respect prices. That places me and my crew in a troublesome place when it comes to searching for opponents and securing massive fights. I actually really feel just like the elite heavyweights ought to simply come and face me and simply let it’s carried out.”
Zhilei Zhang On His Future
‘Huge Bang’ Zhilei Zhang is hoping perhaps Riyadh Season with Saudi Arabia and Turki Alalshikh could make some decisions to assist transfer this heavyweight title image alongside. He continued:
“I feel it’s actually good for his excellency to place every thing collectively. Clearly, we’re benefiting from it however on the similar time, they’re making fights that we’d usually by no means get to see. They made loads of fights that we are able to solely dream about and that is actually such factor.
“Additionally on the opposite facet, Riyadh season is the massive push behind every thing, I feel they made the entire world realise what a beautiful nation Saudi Arabia is. Individuals are Saudi Arabia because the centre {of professional} boxing and of sports activities as effectively.”
The highest-five-ranked Zhang has an in depth eye on the upcoming rematch between Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury. He stated that he would fortunately face both one, the Chinese language-born athlete added:
“I’ll do it now. With out hesitation.”
