Recently, the news of the meeting between Asia's heavyweight "Dragon King" Zhang Junlong and Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau has not gone away, on the one hand, netizens and boxing fans have given a thumbs up to the new pattern of Chinese boxing created by Zhang Junlong; On the other hand, he also sincerely admired Zhang Junlong's broad vision and strong influence.
Zhang Junlong has been living and training in North America in recent years, and has won the recognition of many European and American boxing celebrities with his outstanding strength and accumulation in the Asian boxing world. In May this year, Zhang Junlong chose Canada to start the first comeback battle of the 3-year comeback of the boxing ring, and as a result, he defeated the 27-year-old Mexican fighter "Big Avarez" Casas without bloodshed, and this victory also made the vast number of Chinese who worked hard in Canada completely boil!
Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau has also heard of Zhang Junlong, especially after learning that Zhang Junlong won the game in Canada, he is very interested in the oriental giant, because Trudeau himself is a boxing enthusiast, and he also played a boxing charity match when he was a parliamentarian a few years ago, and after the game, this matter was also remade into a movie, adding a legend to Trudeau's life.
It is worth mentioning that the top boxers who can meet the leaders of major countries are rare even if they look at the history of boxing for hundreds of years. In addition to the well-known boxing king Mohammed Ali who was received by Deng Xiaoping during a visit to China in 1979, another exception was the "boxing god" Roy Jones meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2015. At that time, Roy Jones wanted to deepen the friendship between the United States and Russia, cultivated boxing talents in Russia, and obtained Russian citizenship personally issued to him by Putin.
Now, after Ali and Jones, two members of the International Boxing Hall of Fame, Zhang Junlong, who has worked hard, has also been given the opportunity to meet with the heads of state of the major powers, which can be said to be a great progress for Chinese boxing and even Chinese sports. Zhang Junlong's colorful life shows that Chinese boxers can also be recognized on the world's highest platform, as long as they do their favorite careers, think of others, and be a bright and upright good person, they will have the opportunity to change their lives.
Coincidentally, Zhang Junlong and Roy Jones also had zero-distance contact, when the two met at the 2016 IBF Global Annual Meeting, because Jones defeated Ruiz in 2003, becoming the first middleweight to get a heavyweight world gold belt since 1897, Zhang Junlong naturally admired Jones, and Jones also expressed admiration for Zhang Junlong's achievements in the Asian heavyweight boxing world, and then the two celebrities stood side by side and completed a group photo.
Zhang Junlong said: "Sports have no borders, boxing, as an important member of sports, has always played an important role in the world, and many leaders of major countries like boxing, which has fully demonstrated the unique charm of boxing." I believe that boxing will bring the hearts of China and the people of other countries closer and closer, and the road of international sports friendship will become wider and wider. ”