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On January 26, a piece of news made the hearts of boxing fans across the country extremely heavy.
Mr. Wang Guojun, who once led the Chinese team to win the first Olympic boxing gold, passed away at the age of 85.
Many people think that boxing is only cruel and has no beauty, but Wang Guojun loves this sport to the extreme, in order to promote boxing, he wrote a book and a biography and participated in variety shows, and also cultivated the world champion Bai Chongguang.
But even such a boxing master has times when he "overturns", and in Zou Shiming, Wang Guojun has realized what it means to "say too much and lose it".
The former partner issued an obituary, and the former audience left messages
On January 26, well-known sports commentator Han Qiaosheng released an obituary on his social platform, which made boxing fans across the country unable to hide their grief.
It was none other than the godfather-level figure of the Chinese boxing world - Mr. Wang Guojun, who can be called the godfather and is fully qualified.
For most amateur boxing enthusiasts, the first time they learned about Mr. Wang Guojun should be at the "World Professional Boxing Championship", and his humorous commentary left a lot of impressions on the audience.
As a commentary consultant, Mr. Wang Guojun has been sitting in this show for nearly 20 years, and he and Han Qiaosheng and Du Wenjie talked about boxing matches, as if they were talking about cross talk.
Under the influence of Wang Guojun's commentary, many people fell in love with boxing, and many viewers said that the happiest memory when they were children was watching "World Professional Boxing Championship" with a bowl on the weekend.
Although Han Qiaosheng, who issued the obituary, is a professional commentator, Wang Guojun has a more important identity than the commentary, that is, the boxing coach, he is a real practitioner.
Wang Guojun came to explain boxing, it can be said that it is purely out of love, in order to help the development of Chinese boxing, he also wrote a book for boxing in addition to the commentary, and the book "Boxing Sports" came from him.
And Wang Guojun's ability to write such a professional book is related to his life experience.
After going through ups and downs on the road to learning boxing, he was ordered to turn the tide in danger
Wang Guojun's life has been full of ups and downs, all related to boxing, as early as the age of eleven or twelve when he first came into contact with boxing, he made up his mind to learn this technique to the peak.
In fact, Wang Guojun really did it, as early as 1956 he won the 63kg boxing national championship, the moment he won the medal, he looked forward to his own progress, did not realize the tragedy that was about to happen.
Due to the perennial misunderstanding of boxing and the complex social reasons at that time, when Wang Guojun's boxing career was just starting, boxing was forced to stop competing.
But Wang Guojun did not stop there, he still insisted on his own rhythm of exercise, and firmly believed that the sport of boxing can always usher in its own spring.
Finally, in 1986, when boxing resumed, China was under pressure to participate in world boxing competitions, because it would have to participate in the Olympic boxing competition.
But at that time, the domestic boxing competition had just resumed, and many people had long been wiped out and gave up boxing early, not only the lack of coaches, but also the shortage of boxing talents.
In the face of such a predicament, the 48-year-old Wang Guojun was finally selected, and his strength, who was once a domestic boxing champion, was recognized again and became the first head coach of the Chinese boxing team, leading the team to compete in the international arena.
Although Wang Guojun's personal boxing achievements are very dazzling, boxing by himself is like doing a question, and teaching others to fight boxing is more like lecturing, there are too many differences between these two things, and Wang Guojun also had a headache at first.
But for the honor of the Chinese team and the development of boxing in China, Wang Guojun still took the plunge and formulated a training plan according to his own training experience and the situation of each player.
Under the leadership of Wang Guojun, the fledgling Chinese team first squeezed into the top eight of the Olympic Games, and then directly won 1 gold and 5 silver in the 1990 Beijing Asian Games.
On that day, Bai Chongguang in the boxing ring successfully cleared all the obstacles in front of him and won the coveted gold medal, while Wang Guojun on the coaching platform also realized his ideal of serving the country.
Since then, the rapid progress of the Chinese team has amazed the world boxing community, and Wang Guojun, the coach who is in charge of his own affairs, has also become a well-deserved "godfather of boxing".
After leaving the national team, Wang Guojun still pays attention to his boxing career and has made a name for himself in the commentary industry.
Wang Guojun's commentary is not only easy to understand, but also frequent golden sentences, under his promotion, more people fell in love with boxing matches, and also learned more about the world's boxers.
It can be said that without Wang Guojun's commentary, many people may not know the boxing champion Tyson, and the boxing champion Tyson also gave a very high evaluation to Wang Guojun's commentary.
Tyson said that he felt that Wang Guojun was one of the few people who did not bring his own personal emotional orientation when commenting on the game, and he was able to give the audience a more fair commentary from the perspective of the game.
And this may be related to Wang Guojun's real background as a boxer, after all, when a layman looks at boxing, he will inevitably have an impression of the player's past deeds and achievements, so as to make his own judgment in advance.
But Wang Guojun, as a person who has really played boxing on stage, only has the game in his eyes, and only the beauty of the strength shown by the fighters in every duel, so he can be objective.
However, even with such a conscientious gold medal commentary, there are times when "overturned", and the only episode in Wang Guojun's commentary career is to evaluate Zou Shiming.
The sharp comment on Zou Shiming caused controversy, and Jiang was still old and spicy
The name Zou Shiming is very familiar to many people, because he is an Olympic champion and gold belt winner, and this bright honor is difficult for people not to remember.
And after becoming famous, Zou Shiming also participated in the parent-child variety show "Where Are You Going, Dad", showing off his virtuous wife Ran Yingying and a warm little family, which attracted a lot of attention.
But the former Zou Shiming, even if he won the first Olympic gold medal in boxing, he also faced a situation that no one was optimistic about.
After Zou Shiming defended his Olympic title in 2012, he announced that he was going to attack the world award "gold", which caused an uproar for a while.
Even Wang Guojun, who used to be the coach of the national team and really knew Zou Shiming, was not particularly optimistic about his boxing target at first.
In April 2013, Wang Guojun sharply commented on Zou Shiming's state and put forward a lot of personal suggestions, not only feeling that Zou Shiming's playing style was not good, but also persuading him to change his strategy.
However, in the end, Zou Shiming managed to win the gold belt in 2016, showing the world the power of Chinese boxing, and the sport was once again promoted.
It's a pity that Wang Guojun's opinion on this matter has long been unknown, because in 2015, he began to gradually turn to behind-the-scenes work and left the post of a commentator.
However, with his cheerful personality, he will probably be more pleased to see that Chinese boxing can be improved, and more people recognize boxing as an art rather than violence.
epilogue
In order for the healthy development of Chinese boxing, Mr. Wang Guojun has almost exhausted half of his life.
From commentary to writing books, and even personally training team members, Wang Guojun's contribution to Chinese boxing is obvious to all.
Thanks to his efforts, more and more people began to understand boxing and even fell in love with it.
Although Mr. Wang Guojun has passed away now, he has left too many in the history of Chinese boxing.
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Information sources:
[1] "Han Qiaosheng: Wang Guojun, the former head coach of the national boxing team and the head coach of the boxing team of the armed police headquarters, died of illness at the age of 85"
[2] "On Chinese Boxing - I Don't Know History, How to Talk About the Future"
[3] "The Death of Wang Guojun, the Former Head Coach of the Chinese National Boxing Team"
[4] Coach Wang Guojun's personal encyclopedia information