China's generation of boxing champions, because 30,000 yuan became a lai?

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I believe that in the minds of most people, sports stars (except men's football) tend to have better reviews than literary stars, at least in the two aspects of "winning glory for the country" and "fighting spirit" are rarely unrecognized, and the best of them often exist as "heroes" in people's hearts.

Fighting boxing and other sports are particularly exciting because of their direct confrontation. After all, the kung fu masters in the movie are very popular, and the real "boxing king" is naturally better.

However, in this field of competition, Chinese athletes have rarely achieved success for a long time.

Until the man appeared.

Zou Shiming, two Olympic gold medals and an international boxing championship belt, not only represents strength, but also successfully becomes the most prestigious business card of Chinese boxing.

He was a "hero" without a doubt. But today, the name Zou Shiming is inevitably covered with a layer of rust.

The last time he appeared in the hot search was at the beginning of this year.

A topic of "Zou Shiming Company was executed for 38,600 yuan" briefly rushed to the hot search.

Soon, this inconspicuous hot search was washed away by the torrent of traffic.

People who noticed this news may have to sigh, how can the once famous boxing king now become an old lai? And because more than 30,000 "small money" was executed?

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In the early 90s, in a small county town in Zunyi City, Guizhou Province, the young Zou Shiming was still a martial arts practitioner.

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Speaking of Zou Shiming's original intention of practicing martial arts, when he was a child, the thin Zou Shiming was often bullied by his peers, and he couldn't even beat the big girl on one side.

So Xiao Zou Shiming was immersed in the world of action movies, fantasizing that one day he could become a kung fu master like Jackie Chan and beat everyone who dared to bully him.

Of course, just watching movies is not enjoyable, and Xiao Zou Shiming resolutely began martial arts training.

Athletic talent is sometimes connected.

At the age of 16, during a performance event, Zou Shiming was caught in by Liang Feng, the coach of the boxing team.

Lightning-fast reflexes, innate excellent coordination... are necessary for a good boxer.

So, Zou Shiming successfully changed careers.

Not long after training in the team, Zou Shiming began to show his talent and successfully became a member of the boxing team of Guizhou Province.

After coming into contact with this real "art of confrontation", Zou Shiming was also deeply fascinated by it, and crazy training became the main tone of his life.

His training is not limited to the training ground, training confrontations on bustling buses, training pace on winding and rough roads, and has only one thing on his mind: boxing.

After many times in domestic competitions, Zou Shiming directly raised the national brand name from the local team and became a national boxing team sparring.

For the Chinese boxing team at that time, the target was the World Championships and the Olympics.

To qualify for such a competition, you must stand out in the domestic tournament.

In 2000, Zou Shiming, who worked hard silently, rose to prominence, won the championship of the 48kg class as a dark horse, and successfully advanced from sparring to an official member of the national team.

Zou Shiming, who has gradually matured physically, technically and mentally, stepped onto the international scene at the age of 22.

At the 2003 World Boxing Championships, Zou Shiming reached the final and won a silver medal.

It was also China's first medal in world boxing.

This medal means a lot to the Chinese boxing community, and it also marks that Chinese finally has a place and voice in this fiercely competitive sport.

But all this has just begun for Zou Shiming.

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Chinese boxing started late, lacked a high-level training environment, and the main training system was inherited from the Soviet Union/Russia.

But in this situation of "lack of resources", Zou Shiming and the coaching team can also synthesize their own strength characteristics and hit the top of the world, which is a "miracle".

In 2004, Zou Shiming stepped onto the Olympic stage for the first time.

The young Zou Shiming was shocked by his performance at the Olympics and ended his trip to Athens with a bronze medal.

Of the 63 medals of the Chinese team at that Olympics, including 32 golds, this bronze medal may not be remarkable. But for Chinese boxing and Zou Shiming, it means a lot.

This is a breakthrough in China's boxing program in the Olympic Games, and it also makes the bright performance of "young player Zou Shiming" attract attention in the circle.

Among them is the notorious but influential professional boxing manager - Don Jin.

Don Jin is one of the bosses behind professional boxing in the United States, from the Ali era to the Tyson era, Don Jin promoted countless classic fights that can be remembered in history, and became popular with many super boxing superstars worth more than 100 million.

This veteran of boxing keenly sees the potential in Zou Shiming.

He not only looks at Zou Shiming's technology, but also the billions of Chinese markets behind it, but also an untapped blue ocean.

If you can seize this opportunity to build a Chinese boxing king and open up the huge Chinese market, it is full of temptation for all businessmen.

Zou Shiming is only a bronze medal? Don't hit tight. You must know that the future famous boxing champion Floyd Mayweather's Olympic best result is only the bronze medal.

After negotiating with Zou Shiming, Tang Jin was rejected by this Chinese young man.

The reason is simple, Zou Shiming wants to continue playing for the national team until he gets an Olympic gold medal to prove himself, and he will not get involved in professional boxing until his dream is fulfilled.

Four years later, at the Beijing Olympics on his doorstep, Zou Shiming attacked again with a perfect posture.

After passing five levels and cutting six generals, Zou Shiming got his wish and pocketed the gold medal.

The 27-year-old Zou Shiming knows very well that he is now at his peak, and if he retires from the national team and enters professional boxing at this time, China's first professional boxing king belt may be born earlier.

The so-called "amateur boxing" does not refer to the low-level "ticket boxing", but refers to the boxing system based on the rules of the World Championships/Olympic Games, which is generally based on three rounds, and the competition mainly depends on the technical performance of the boxer rather than the fierce fight. Some traditional amateur boxing powers, such as Cuba and Russia (Soviet Union), have acquired distinctive technical characteristics and training systems through long-term competitions and scientific training.

Although professional boxing is the same boxing event, the number of rounds has been greatly lengthened, and more attention is paid to the aggressiveness of the boxer and the excitement of the scene, and the protection of the boxer is less, more violent, and the boxer is better paid to match.

Many fighters will join the amateur boxing scene in the early stages of their careers, hone their skills, accumulate experience and honors, and after obtaining the honor of amateur boxing, it will be much easier to enter the professional boxing world to fight.

Professional boxing stars such as Muhammad Ali, Ivander Holyfeld and Vasily Lomachenko are former Olympic gold medalists.

But at the threshold where Zou Shiming was about to embark on this road, the situation of the national team changed his choice.

Under the east wind of the 08 Olympics, the people's enthusiasm for sports is high, but what does not match it is the "green and yellow" of the national boxing team. Zou Shiming, as a famous "national hero", the national team definitely hopes that he can continue to fight for the country, strive for good results, lead the old with the new, and lead the team through this transition period.

Zou Shiming chose to stay.

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This choice may have been a pity for Zou Shiming, but fortunately his "national team line" reached a perfect ending.

In London in 2012, the 30-year-old Zou Shiming stood on the rope again and successfully defended his title.

Three Olympics, two golds and one bronze, this dominance does not need to be described too much, looking at the entire history of boxing, there are few fighters who can achieve this achievement.

It was also in this year that Xiong Chaozhong won the World Class Champion Belt organized by WBC, becoming the first professional boxer in China.

This achievement also stimulated Zou Shiming and became one of the driving forces for him to step into the professional boxing world.

At 31 years old, it still seems to be the golden age, but for Zou Shiming, who has been boxing for more than ten years, it is the latter part of his career.

Especially for small-level fighters like Zou Shiming, speed and reaction ability are the cost, and as age increases, the decline in reaction speed and the decline of cardiopulmonary function are inevitable.

Despite Zou Shiming's experience, it is difficult to compensate for his declining physical function, not to mention, the multi-round professional ring is even more dangerous.

In 2013, Zou Shiming signed a contract with the top boxing promotion agency TOPRANK, and his wife Ran Yingying went to the "boxing capital" Las Vegas alone.

In order to make up for his missing four years, Zou Shiming found the best coaching team.

Among them, there are many Asian boxing champion Pacquiao's coaches, and the famous coach of the American boxing industry, Roach, is such a big coffee.

After a period of training, Roach himself praised Zou Shiming's talent, saying that he could well "become the next Pacquiao".

After winning his first victory, Zou Shiming announced to the world that this "late bloomer" boxing king was going to kill the professional boxing world.

The technical level of Olympic gold medal level can crush most ordinary athletes.

After a few beautiful victories, Zou continues to move up the rankings of major boxing organizations.

However, as the game became heavier and heavier, the opponent's level continued to strengthen, and Zou Shiming's shortcomings gradually appeared.

Although he has far faster speed and mobility than usual, his fitness begins to stretch thin during long races.

In addition, Zou Shiming also had to face the pain of transformation.

The traces left by years of amateur boxing training will be difficult to change for a while, which has also become Zou Shiming's biggest constraint, and his cooperation with coach Roach has also cracked.

For a boxer who has just transitioned from amateur ceiling to professional boxing, it is most important to play a little more and adapt to the fight.

But both he and the promotion company know that Zou Shiming, who is over 30 years old, has no time to wait, and must obtain the honor of boxing title as soon as possible in order to retain value to the greatest extent.

Judging from the past performance, short-term success should not be Zou Shiming's character, but at this time, it has become his only method.

This is also why Zou Shiming was arranged to challenge for the belt after only 6 professional matches.

In 2015, Zou Shiming challenged Thailand's Atailenlong for the WBO flyweight international belt.

However, his system problems ended up thunderous, and in the match, Zou Shiming fought his opponent for 12 rounds, and finally lost points.

After the game, coach Roach cursed angrily, and Zou Shiming also knew where his flaws were, so he could only go back to practice hard.

In the following match, Zou Shiming defeated another high-ranking player and won the challenge again.

On November 5, 2016, Zou Shiming got a second chance to challenge for the title of boxing title.

He faced Pabom, also from Thailand, and won with a crushing stance, finally pocketing the WBO belt.

At the age of 35, double Olympic gold medal and WBO international boxing championship belt, Zou Shiming finally got his wish, crowned China's second professional boxing champion, and let the five-star red flag fly over the ring in Las Vegas.

In the ring, Zou Shiming burst into tears on the spot, he kissed his wife Ran Yingying, thanking the team and his wife for their continued help.

If Zou Shiming's career can stay here, it will be a perfect story.

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There are many people who attribute the fall of Zou City tomorrow to being too close to the entertainment industry, but in fact, this timeline is not very right.

In 2012, Zou Shiming made a guest appearance in the online drama "Disi Men" as an Olympic champion, and 2 years later, Zou Shiming also briefly made a guest appearance in the Hollywood blockbuster "Transformers 4".

After entering the professional boxing world, perhaps because his dream came true too late, or perhaps because the rich business atmosphere of the professional boxing world influenced him, Zou Shiming realized that it was not enough to earn an appearance fee by boxing.

Speculating on topics/setting up people/going on variety shows/receiving endorsements, and slowly changed from a "side business" to a big project that needs to be operated.

Under the planning of his wife Ran Yingying, Zou Shiming became more and more "star-like".

In 2015, Zou Shiming and his son Zou Mingxuan participated in the popular Hunan Satellite TV variety show "Where Did Dad Go", through which Zou Shiming's influence really began to break the circle.

People's impression of Zou Shiming and boxers has begun to change, boxers are not only reckless men who beat each other on stage, but also warm men and loving fathers.

With this wave of variety show craze, Zou Shiming took the opportunity to push the popularity of the 2016 boxing championship to an unprecedented height.

His wife Ran Yingying also began to play the role of Zou Shiming's agent, and she did not know much about boxing, and began to build Zou Shiming in the way of stars in the entertainment industry.

As a result, a large number of information about Zou Shiming's family, husband and wife has become his main keynote, and for boxing fans, it is natural to feel strange and annoyed.

"Ruined by his wife" has also become the main argument that some fans criticize Zou Shiming.

In fact, perhaps Zou Shiming himself did not realize that his love for boxing had already "deteriorated".

Soon, under the premise of the interests of many parties combined, Zou Shiming's first title defense was arranged.

His opponent is Sho Kimura, a Japanese man with a mediocre professional record and poor background, who also needs to work part-time to subsidize training expenses after becoming a boxer.

Whether from the resume or technical characteristics, Kimura Sho is the existence that should be beaten by Zou Shiming, and people in the circle can see that this is the "soft persimmon" prepared by the promoter for Zou Shiming.

Before the game, Zou Shiming's team used all means to publicize and hype, not only using all their contacts in the entertainment industry and sports circles, but even following the "trend" to package this game as a "China-Japan war", which is quite a bit of a deliberate "introduction".

No one expected that everything was laid out off the field, except for the results on the field.

At the beginning of the match, Zou Shiming was still the same as before, moving fast and punching fiercely, just like his idol Ali, moving like a butterfly dance and stabbing like a bee sting.

And all Kimura Sho could do was hold his head, press up tirelessly at a speed that was always half a beat slower than Zou Shiming, and grit his teeth to eat all Zou Shiming's attacks.

In this way, the race came to the second half, and the nearly 36-year-old Zou Shiming had a physical discontinuity, his speed began to drop, his steps began to be messy, his breathing began to be rapid, and even his technique began to deform.

And Kimura Sho, who was waiting for work, finally resisted his own flashpoint, and in the 11th round, Zou Shiming was unable to sustain under Kimura Sho's stormy blows, and his consciousness gradually relaxed.

At this time, the referee rushed up to terminate the match, and Kimura Sho was shocked and won the game.

The plot of the movie "Rocky" was staged at this moment, but I didn't expect that Rocky turned out to be the Japanese opposite.

At the end of the match, Zou Shiming broke down emotionally, tears spilled on the spot, he also grabbed the microphone, and said a lot about Chinese boxing, about his own efforts, as if to vent these years of grievances and unwillingness.

On the side, the newly promoted boxing king Kimura Sho did not get a few words to speak.

Professional boxing is a cruel place, and when a boxing champion loses a fight, he is inevitably greeted by an overwhelming amount of spit.

And Zou Shiming's "pretentious" speech and pre-match hype tactics have become the culprits of the collapse of others.

After the match, Zou Shiming published a series of long articles accusing the game of being "unclean" behind the scenes.

In the article, Zou Shiming hyped up the other party's Japanese identity, trying to blame the defeat on "someone constantly making trouble" to sow national antagonism.

His wife Ran Yingying even posted that Shengli Family, the agency company that controlled Zou Shiming, was unwell and forced his match to lead to defeat, and Shengli Family also owed Zou Shiming nearly 10 million in appearance fees and other expenses....

These quality controls immediately arrived at the return of Shengli family, and the former partners became full of gunpowder.

In short, a series of far-fetched excuses left people speechless, and the good image that Zou Shiming had accumulated over the years collapsed overnight.

At the same time, Sho Kimura's inspirational past was picked up, and instantly changed from a "little Japanese boxer" to a "inspirational bottom-level counterattack boxing king".

And Zou Shiming, under the background of Kimura Sho, became a "fake boxing king" who was unworthy of virtue and could not afford to lose, and was ridiculed and even scolded by public opinion.

Some people aimed at Zou Shiming's behavior, thinking that Zou Shiming frequently appeared on variety shows, which dragged down training.

Some people spurn Zou Shiming's style of play, thinking that his "pirate-style style of play" is bouncing and jumping, which is the embodiment of instigation.

In fact, the so-called "pirate-style play" is the system used by small level players in the technical stream, and it is also the technical advantage of Zou Shiming to defeat the enemy for many years, but it has become the object of people's verbal criticism.

Everything could have been a problem, and as a label figure in Chinese boxing, even if he loses, people want him to lose openly, rather than making excuses everywhere afterwards.

A series of remarks and operations by Zou Shiming and his wife Ran Yingying after the game not only failed to win more sympathy, but painted Zou Shiming's character darker and darker.

And for such a declining older fighter, I am afraid that there is no chance of redemption.

Maybe things would have been completely different when Zou Shi joined the professional boxing scene tomorrow morning, or retired after winning gold in 2012?

But there are no ifs. Zou Shiming's successes and failures, the development of the story are very "logical", and there is nothing "awkward" to be found.

End

After losing that game, Zou Shiming was once plagued by eye diseases.

But instead of arousing the sympathy of netizens, his injury was ridiculed because of his overly forceful marketing posture.

Perhaps recognizing his reality, Zou Shiming chose to retire.

Some people say that with Zou Shiming's skills and ability, he can become another famous promoter.

Some people also say that Zou Shiming should become a coach and pass on his experience to more potential juniors.

After retiring, Zou Shiming made a different choice.

He moved behind the scenes, became the president of the Shanghai Boxing Association, and also participated in some variety shows, or as a boxer, popularized the sport of boxing to the public.

However, without the blessing of the belt and gold medal, Zou Shiming's reputation is inevitably declining, and the corrupted image has not ushered in a turning day.

Although the "boxing king" has a good reputation, Zou Shiming is only engaged in an "unpopular project". The crow has previously briefly introduced the situation of boxing and other combat practitioners in recent years.

In this situation, Zou Shiming, who was once on the spire, is not in a good situation. Zou Xuan (Shanghai) Sports Culture Development Co., Ltd., which he was forced to do this time, is mainly engaged in competition promotion, and it can be imagined that this business has been very sad in recent years.

Because more than 30,000 yuan has become a "Lao Lai", for a boxing king who was once famous all over the world, it is too much of a loss.

Zou Shiming is still like this, what about those who are further at the bottom?

Zou Shiming once said in an interview that he used to be a junior brother in the Guizhou team, and after retiring, he never found a business to make a living, so he could only go to the roadside to set up a stall.

As a result, during a street conflict, the junior brother unfortunately died of his injuries.

Zou Shiming's achievements and honors, as well as the use of his huge influence to promote boxing, after all, gave more people in this field away from the spotlight a rare opportunity, no matter what happened later, Zou Shiming was the one who brought light to the entire industry.

So a hero is a hero, a controversy is a controversy, and there is no conflict between the two. When it comes to Chinese boxing, Zou Shiming is always a milestone that cannot be avoided.

When the next "Zou Shiming" appears, I hope that the muddy water that Zou Shiming has waded on the way down the mountain will not happen to him again.

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Zou Shiming defeated Pabom to win WBO belt crowned a super Grand Slam in boxing - Interface News

Zou Shiming: The heroic journey and destiny of a genius boxer - Tencent Entertainment

【Character】Why is Zou Shiming getting darker? - Sports Weekly

Shiming Would——BoxRec