On the morning of April 30, 2022 Beijing time, the international authoritative boxing media BoxRec announced a match, and Zhang Junlong, a 40-year-old veteran from China, participated in professional boxing competitions again after nearly 4 years (he played at the end of 2018, but was not recognized). According to information released by BoxRec, Zhang Junlong will face Mexican heavyweight boxer Guillermo Casas on May 14, 2022 local time in Richmond, Ontario, Canada.
Zhang Junlong, born on November 12, 1981 in Qingdao, China, played for the defenders during his amateur boxing era and won the National Games at his peak. However, in the international boxing arena, Zhang Junlong has not achieved the results of the hand, so when Zhang Junlong entered the professional boxing arena in 2012, except for some boxing self-media, the mainstream media did not pay much attention.
Since making his professional boxing debut in October 2012, Zhang Junlong has played a total of 20 professional matches and achieved a record of total victory. But his opponents were uneven, and most of them were boxers who had risen from the sub-heavyweight, so the quality of the game did not convince boxing fans.
In 2018, BoxRec, an international authoritative boxing media, announced that it would no longer recognize the two high-quality matches that Zhang Junlong had played before (one against the former WBO and IBF heavyweight world boxing champion Victor Ramirez, and the other against South African boxer Marchmana), and took away the performance data of these two matches.
As I mentioned in a previous article, resources and connections are indispensable for a boxer to succeed in a professional boxing arena. However, judging from the competitions that Zhang Junlong participated in in the past, the influence of the pusher behind Zhang Junlong was limited to China, and he basically had no ability to arrange Zhang Junlong to participate in foreign competitions. This caused the separation between Zhang Junlong and the foreign boxing market, so even if Zhang Junlong had entered the world's top fifteen of the WBA organization in the most brilliant period of his career, the super boxing king, the regular boxing king, and the transitional boxing king of this organization did not mention Zhang Junlong's name when fighting the world boxing champion defense battle. It's not that people are afraid of you, it's that people don't know you at all.
Zhang Zhilei, who is similar to Zhang Junlong's age, has performed much better in this regard. He dedicated his youth to the country in the amateur boxing era, representing the national team in the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games, and played against almost all the top professional boxing heavyweights (Joseph Parker, Andy Ruiz Jr., Anthony Joshua, Luis Otiz). After entering the professional boxing arena, he was a person working in a foreign country, gradually gaining the favor of mainstream boxing promotion companies with a game, and finally signed a contract with the boxing giant Eddie Hearn's competitive room boxing promotion company.
Also in May, Zhang Zhilei will be in Las Vegas, the mecca of American boxing, as the pit boxer of today's professional boxing pan-middleweight Sull Avarez and Dimitri Biver, against the famous heavyweight rookie Philip Helgović, the mandatory challenge to the IBF heavyweight World Champion title, whether winning or not, this will be the closest Chinese to the heavyweight World Champion title.
Zhang Junlong, on the other hand, is a Mexican boxer with a professional record of 10 wins, 2 losses and 1 draw, who has not won even a regional title in the past. Therefore, for Zhang Junlong, this game is more like practicing and recovering the state. If the victory is better, if the loss then the author thinks it will be difficult to see Zhang Junlong continue to participate in the game in the future.
In addition, it should be added that on BoxRec, Zhang Junlong's current residential address is Toronto, Canada, so I suspect that Zhang Junlong has changed the boxing promotion company, and his current event promotion company mainly affects Canada.
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