Recently, there has been sad news in the Chinese sports world. Mr. Wang Guojun, the former head coach of the Chinese national boxing team and the head coach of the boxing team of the Armed Police Headquarters, passed away at 00:03 a.m. on January 26, 2024 in Beijing due to illness. As soon as the news was exposed, netizens expressed their reluctance! It also attracted heated discussions and attention from netizens and the media.
Mr. Wang Guojun, born in 1938, has the title of China's "Godfather of Boxing". As one of the first boxers in New China, Mr. Wang Guojun won the national championship in the 63kg class in 1956. Later, due to special historical reasons, boxing was banned in China for more than 20 years. It wasn't until 1986 that boxing was officially legalized. After 28 years of waiting, Chinese boxing has gone from the ground to the ground, and Mr. Wang Guojun wept with joy! After that, the Chinese national boxing team was founded! Mr. Wang Guojun became the head coach! Thanks to his efforts, Chinese boxing has taken root and sprouted from the bud! Wang Guojun not only wrote his own boxing books, but also used his professional knowledge to explain boxing matches on the CCTV sports channel many times. It was his hard work that laid a solid foundation for the development of boxing in the future.
After learning the news of the death of Mr. Wang Guojun, Mr. Han Qiaosheng, one of the iron triangles who had commented the competition with him, also expressed his reluctance through social media and posted a message to express his grief: Rest in heaven. And many netizens also expressed regret that they could not listen to Mr. Wang Guojun's explanation again! The death of Mr. Wang Guojun is a loss for Chinese boxing and a loss for the world boxing world! Mr. Wang Guojun has left, and I wish him to continue his boxing career in another world.
Born in Guizhou in 1981, Zou Shiming, who was born in Guizhou in 1981, has participated in the Olympic Games three times in his career and won two golds, one bronze and three medals. In the 2004 Athens Olympics, Zou Shiming participated in the competition for the first time and won a valuable bronze medal. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Zou Shiming won the 48kg championship. This is also the first time that a Chinese athlete has won an Olympic title. At the 2012 London Olympics, Zou Shiming challenged in the 49kg category. In the end, Zou Shiming won the championship again, creating the history of Chinese boxing! After 2013, Zou Shiming turned to the professional arena. He then won the WBO International Flyweight Special Belt and the WBO (World Boxing Organization) Flyweight (bantamweight) World Boxing Championship Belt. In 2018, Zou Shiming was awarded the Highest Achievement Award and the title of World Boxing Council Ambassador for Peace and Harmony by the World Boxing Council.
Everything that Zou Shiming has obtained is inseparable from the solid foundation laid by Mr. Wang Guojun and other predecessors! I look forward to the spiritual encouragement of Mr. Wang Guojun, Chinese boxing will become more and more brilliant!