Recently, careful boxing fans found that the WBA featherweight world boxing king "monster" Xu Can's "five-star boxing king" label has been cancelled by the British boxing statistics media BoxRec, currently he ranks fifth in the world at 126 pounds with 58.82 points, so far there is no five-star boxer in Chinese professional boxing, who can become China's third five-star boxer has become the next worth looking forward to.
Audiences who pay attention to boxing will not be unfamiliar with the concept of "five-star boxing king", such as Tyson, Roy Jones, Mayweather, Pacquiao, Ward, Golovkin, Avarez and other superstars are five-star boxers, and China's first five-star boxer is not Xu Can, but the former IBF/IBO double world champion "Modern Mulan" Cai Zongju, who defeated the world's no. 1 Tada Etsuko in the CCTV New Year Cup on January 30, 2017. Rising to five stars in the latest star rating announced in February 2017, Cai Zongju has since become China's first five-star boxer and has maintained the five-star honor for 26 consecutive months.
Xu Can became a five-star boxer on February 28, 2019, and on January 26, 2019, he defeated Roxas, then ranked 17th in the world, to become the WBA featherweight ordinary world boxer, and a month later, he was rated five-star by BoxRec, thus becoming the first male five-star boxer in China. In fact, Xu Can's cancellation of the five-star boxing championship honor did not occur this month, he no longer enjoyed five-star in the first two months, and the current rating is four and a half stars, which means that xu Can's continuous "five-star honor" has not exceeded 17 months at most, in addition, the highest star of Zou Shiming's career is four-star, and Xiong Chaozhong's highest is three-and-a-half stars.
It should also be pointed out here that the so-called star ranking is based on the boxer's competition frequency, opponent quality, match results and other comprehensive calculations after the points, if the points meet the standards stipulated by BoxRec, the star rating can be upgraded to the next level, Xu Can's last two defending opponents are not very strong, Kubo Falcon and Robles can only be counted as second-line players, so Xu Can's star rating decline is also easy to understand.
Xing Wei, a boxing historian known as "China Bot Schuger", an Asian boxing promoter, said: "Xu Can is still very likely to return to the five-star ranks, if he can beat IBF champion Warrington in the next game, he will become a five-star boxer again, but it is quite difficult to win this game away, and there is no official confirmation of when this unification battle will take place." As for who can break Cai Zongju's record of a five-star boxer for 26 consecutive months, I am afraid that it will be difficult for someone to achieve in the next few years, which is equivalent to Zhang Weili winning the championship and defending the UFC championship for 3 consecutive times. ”