Zhang Zhilei, the Chinese heavyweight boxer, has firmly positioned himself among the top fighters in his division after spending over 7 years in the professional boxing ring. Born on March 3, 1983, he made his debut in August 2014 and has since contended in 26 fights, winning 24 of them, while losing one and drawing the other.
A youtuberből lett bokszoló, Jake Paul 2018-ban szállt ringbe először, eddig tíz meccséből kilencet megnyert, igaz jobbára korábbi ketrecharcosok ellen. Egyetlen vereségét tavaly februárban szenvedte el, amikor a brit bokszoló, Tommy Fury kiütötte.
During the design process, Tyson and Whitmill collaborated with each other, with Tyson making suggestions on the imagery and symbolism he wanted to incorporate into the design. After several iterations, they settled on the final design, which has since become iconic.
It may seem odd that the only fighters Tyson mentions are three of the men that handed him four of his six professional losses, but as the years have gone on, it’s clear that for him, boxing wasn’t about a perfect record; it was about the fight, box and the heroes he had didn’t leave the game with a zero in the loss column. In fact, in many cases it was their losses that defined them. But that sense of history is lost on many young fighters these days, with their earliest point of reference possibly being someone like Mike Tyson. By contrast, Tyson always celebrated the legends of the game that came before him, sometimes 60 or more years before.
Round 4: Wilder keeps just pawing his left out there, waiting for a miracle of perfection to show the way for his right. Wilder has landed 9 punches through three rounds. Yeesh. Zhang not lighting the world on fire with 27, but still.
Wilder fires back and Zhang staying in the pocket. Rough-housing inside and Wilder is playing a dangerous game. He finally pivots out. But Zhang puts him into the corner again and rips to the body. Wilder cannot get backed up like this. Zhang’s size is too big a weapon in there.
“I thought it was so hot. I would be in these dens, these clubs and strip places sometimes and all the girls said ‘oh you are very exotic, where are you from? Where did your family come from? Why did you put this tattoo on your face?’
Feeling like a homage to Goodfellas with all its zippy camera zooms, Mike frequently breaks the fourth wall, just as Martin Scorsese’s gangster classic did. Anchoring the series is a scene set in an Indiana theatre where Tyson is on stage sharing his life story. “Who am I?” he asks, sounding more like Derek Zoolander than one of the most feared boxers of all time. Over the next eight half-hour episodes, he’ll try to get to the bottom of that question.
Round 2: Wilder trying to hold the center a little more to start this round instead of retreating to the corner easily. Wilder tries a right hand as Zhang lands a left to the body. Neither man is jabbing. Zhang gets Wilder to the corner and tags him! Uppercut lands and Wilder covering up here.
As revealed by Bobby Brown, Tyson and Bobby were in Japan during Bobby’s “Dance Ya Know It Japan tour.” Both of them were partying all night with around 12 other Japanese girls. When Bobby insisted Tyson for going to sleep, Tyson, out of over-confidence, replied that he could beat Buster Douglas if he didn’t sleep for five whole weeks.
101. “I seem to annoy people just by doing me. Well, guess what? A lot of people annoy the hell out of me by not working to their full potential, being lazy and making excuses for their lot in life.” – David Goggins
In 2014, Zhang starred in John Woo’s romantic epic The Crossing, based on the true story of the Taiping steamer collision and follows six characters and their intertwining love stories in Taiwan and Shanghai during the 1930s. Zhang plays a poor illiterate woman waiting for her soldier lover in 1930’s Shanghai.
“Some people from other countries and continents already want the show and we didn’t even have it yet,” he said. “So we have to see how it goes. I have to look at my wife to see how my schedule is, and I would like for it to come to New York. But we’re gonna get a test try here.”
Zhang was scheduled to fight Filip Hrgović in an IBF title eliminator on 7 May 2022. However, Hrgović pulled out of the fight on 2 May, after his father died and his training suffered. Scott Alexander was chosen as the replacement on the Canelo Álvarez vs. Dmitry Bivol undercard, with the fight being dropped from the co-main to the undercard. Zhang won the bout via first-round knockout. His fight against Hrgović was rescheduled for 20 August 2022, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on the undercard of Oleksandr Usyk vs Anthony Joshua II. On that night, Zhang knocked Hrgović down in the first round with a big right. After a close-fought battle over twelve rounds, the judges awarded the fight to Hrgović with two scores of 115–112 and one of 114–113, in what was described as a “generous” decision by broadcaster Sky Sports after a “bizarre” performance by Hrgović.