For a long time, China and Japan have been in the political, economic, cultural, Sports and other aspects have a special relationship, although the mainland in recent years in the number of Olympic gold medals far surpassed Japan, but in the international mainstream of the sports projects, Japan has appeared a lot of world-class athletes, in addition to football and baseball, Japan in the professional boxing project appeared Inoue Naomi such a world P4P top two players, so far Japan has given birth to nearly 90 men's world boxing champions and nearly 20 women's world boxing champions, and the mainland has won the official world gold belt of only three men's boxers: Xiong Chaozhong, Zou Shiming and Xu Can. Many people can't help but wonder - what is the difference between China and Japan?
In response to this question, Todd, vice chairman of the world-famous boxing promotion company TopRank, expressed his opinion in an interview, the deputy who has assisted Arum for many years has long seen the essence of professional boxing, and he pointed out sharply: "Japan is a highly developed country with huge stadiums and a huge media broadcast platform. ”
As harsh as these words sound, they are telling the truth. Professional boxing itself is a highly developed commercial sport, if you want to play this sport well, you must have enough funds and mass base to ensure it, and more importantly, the people need to have a strong interest and a deep foundation in the cultural soil.
As early as the twenties and thirties of the last century, Japan began to do professional boxing, is the pioneer of professional boxing in Asia, coupled with Japan's economic recovery after the war, very early among the developed countries, with the economic foundation as a guarantee, the people can focus on cultural and sports activities.
On the other hand, boxing was completely banned by the mainland in 1958 and was not resumed until 1986, thanks to Deng Xiaoping's enlightenment and the three visits of boxing champion Ali to China, and at the beginning of this century, the mainland really carried out professional boxing projects, although in 2010-2018, the mainland's professional boxing development was good, but due to the emergence of a pandemic in 2020, the mainland's economy declined rapidly, and all walks of life were very unhappy？
Under the constraints of multiple factors such as the lack of good seedlings, no economic support, and a lack of foundation, it is not easy for several world boxing champions to appear on the mainland, but if you want to reach the height of Inoue Naoya, I am afraid it will be difficult to appear in the next 50 years.
All in all, the development and growth of professional boxing in a country is not an overnight thing, but a long process, of course, we should not be arrogant, precisely because China's professional boxing is in a relatively low period, but also indicates that there are many opportunities to tap in the future.