Japanese boxer Sho Kimura, who defeated Zou Shiming to win the WBO Flyweight World Championship, was known as the "Weed Boxer" because of his origin as a sake deliverer, and the porter's counterattack on the KO Olympic champion became a widely circulated inspirational story in both China and Japan. However, China's grassroots boxing champion who is even poorer than Kimura Xiang should not be forgotten, he is the first male professional boxing world champion in Chinese history Xiong Chaozhong. Although Kimura Sho's family is poor, he can at least be trained in a professional training gym in Tokyo after being exposed to boxing, and Xiong Chaozhong's experience is obviously ten times or more arduous than Kimura Sho's, and the world boxer who has farmed and gone to the mine may be difficult to find a second one in the world.
Although Xiong Chaozhong is no longer the world champion with a gold belt and body, and he rarely appears in front of the media except for the game, Xiong Chaozhong's life has never left boxing. A few days ago, a video recording Xiong Chaozhong's comeback in October last year, "The Last Battle of the Boxer King", was first released on the Internet, instantly causing a lot of repercussions in the boxing circle and among boxing fans, and people were more awe-inspiring about Xiong Chaozhong's inspirational boxing king image that has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. After the competition and training, Xiong Chaozhong is still thinking of doing his part in Chinese boxing, and he plans to create a boxing school named after him, hoping to let children who have the same boxing dreams as he did and who aspire to change their lives with boxing find the place where their boxing dreams began.
Before the competition last October, Xiong Chaozhong rented a taekwondo gym in his hometown as a temporary training ground. After defeating Thailand's all-winning rising star Pan Ya to win the WBA Mini Lightweight International Gold Belt, Xiong Chaozhong used all his million appearance fees for this game to be used for the construction of the new boxing gym, and finally he opened a boxing gym covering an area of nearly 4,000 square meters in the center of his hometown Of Wenshan, named "Xiong Chaozhong International Boxing Fitness Club". At the end of last year, Xiong Chaozhong's boxing club was officially opened, and the famous calligrapher Mr. Fan Zeng personally inscribed a plaque for the club. With Xiong Chaozhong seizing the world's gold belt, as well as Xu Can, Bai Shanbo and other rising stars, the boxing boom they brought has never subsided in China, Xiong Chaozhong Boxing Club opened its doors within a few days to attract more than 70 teenagers who love boxing to sign up, including many poor children with poor family conditions, which is very similar to Xiong Chaozhong's experience in that year. Xiong Chaozhong said that he saw his shadow in some children, although suffering is a wealth, but now the conditions are better, he does not want to see tuition fees become an obstacle to boxing teenagers from entering the boxing hall, so he provides free financial support for poor children, and the act of love has touched countless people around him.
"I was a poor kid out of the mountains, a miner who eventually changed my fate with my fists. Because of my age, I may not fight in the professional boxing world for too long in the future, but I hope that more young people with dreams in China can enter the boxing world, I will do my best to support them, provide them with a more professional platform, and look forward to more people to change their fate with their fists by hard work, and Chinese boxing will definitely get better and better! Xiong Chaozhong said.