In the summer of 1926, a Filipino boxer nicknamed "Soft Bull" came to Shanghai with a Russian Hercules Shklov and publicly set up a contest on Nanjing Road, and read a banner in the ring: "If you can defeat him, reward five hundred yuan in silver." "The arrogance is very arrogant.
This "soft cow" himself has a certain strength, Skolov weighs 140 kilograms, and has rich practical experience. For many days, no one among the Chinese dared to take the stage to fight.
However, this irritated a martial arts master, mr. Zhang Changxin (1903-1990), a famous martial artist. Zhang Changxin is a native of Xincheng, Hebei Province, and was born into a martial arts family. Since childhood, he has loved martial arts, and when he was a teenager, he and his brother Zhang Changyi worshiped Ma Yutang, a famous artist of Hebei Shape Yi Fist, as a teacher, and learned the essence of Shape Yi Fist. In 1915, he went to Shanghai to establish the Martial Arts Society and practiced Western boxing, and in the process of trying art with various schools, he came to prominence.
Zhang Changxin, alias Zhang Shiliang, took the stage to fight. Hercules Skolov came first. Sikolov is a strong punch, experienced, and comes up to punch hard and win quickly.
Zhang Changxin uses flexible footwork to oppose and maneuver with it. Soon, Skolov was sweating and panting. By the sixth round, Sikolov's footwork was in disarray, Zhang Changxin punched out two fists in a row, and Sikolov was hit in the chest and fell to the ground. Then, he got up on the spot and fought back with all his might.
Zhang Changxin punched and kicked out, and then hit Sikolov's key point, and Sikolov fell to the ground on his back, dying.
The Filipino boxer "Soft Bull" saw the situation and was really scared "soft" and did not dare to fight again. Sixty silver dollars were held out in both hands, the banner of the ring was removed, and he slipped away quietly. The audience saw the situation, applauded happily, and went on stage to lift Zhang Changxin up and throw him into the air.
The incident soon caused a sensation in Shanghai, when a large portrait of Zhang Changxin's defeat of Siklov was painted on a tram from Jing'an Temple to the Bund, which was publicized for more than a month.
In October 1928, Zhang Changxin was at the top of the ring at the inaugural meeting of the Central Guoshu Hall in Nanjing. He was favored by the then chief referee, Yi Quan Master Wang Qianzhai (王芗斋). Later, through the introduction of Qian Yantang, he worshiped Wang Qianzhai as his teacher, and obtained the true transmission of his fist, and was later listed as the first of the "Four Great Vajras" of Wang Qianzhai's disciples. After the ring match, he was also hired as the coach of the Kokushokan.
Later, through the introduction of Wang Qianzhai and Zhang Zhaodong, he then worshiped Wu Yiyi, the founder of liuhe eight methods, as a teacher, and learned the true art of liuhe eight methods. He transformed the internal skills of Yi Quan into the "Liuhe Eight Laws" and became a famous master of Liuhe Eight Laws, and later became known as the "King of Southern Fists".
In 1947, Zhang Changxin defeated the American boxer John Allen. In 1990, Zhang Changxin died at the age of eighty-seven.