China's HW proud to fight soon...

[jamamb]

honestly not impressed at all by him. looks big and stiff and slow. saw him get dropped by some random journeyman.

[asdfjkl]

So 9 months after the last post you react on a post that's actually oftopic?

Though you'd love some news on the Big Dong, seeing as you love big men....

What on earth makes you think I "love big men"?

[candyslim]

I don't understand why people are interested. He's 35 years old and still fighting stiffs after 5 years as a pro. A fight between the Zhangs or one of them against Fujimoto might be interesting, but I wouldn't rule out any of them being the home fighter in someone's easy title defence.

[Ilya Muromets]

Zhang has already knocked out 5 opponents as good as Rogelio Rossi, so this fight doesn't really mean anything. He needs to fight someone in the top 75, like Faisal Arrami or Pawel Kolodziej.

Since KO'g Rossi in the first round he's KO'd 3 more opponents in the 1st or 2nd round, most recently Machimana in South Africa in round one in July.

[GalenBadBoyBrown]

He is pretty good uses his height well but I would like to see a true heavyweight that can come forward a take a shot while giving one someone like Joey Abel and him would be a great matchup so we can see how he reacts to getting hit good.

[Lackeos]

Zhang has already knocked out 5 opponents as good as Rogelio Rossi, so this fight doesn't really mean anything. He needs to fight someone in the top 75, like Faisal Arrami or Pawel Kolodziej.

Since KO'g Rossi in the first round he's KO'd 3 more opponents in the 1st or 2nd round, most recently Machimana in South Africa in round one in July.

Okay. I assume that means we're in agreement, then.

Basically what I'm trying to say is that Zhang has fought about 6 opponents as good as Rossi (Machinama, Farrah, Rossi, Arias, Cox, and Gavern) including Rossi himself; and he won them all by round 1-3 stoppage. All of them had a boxrec rating between 20 and 28. So it's basically a complete waste of time for Zhang to fight anyone that isn't in the top 75 rankings (i.e. a boxrec rating of > 30).

[Ilya Muromets]

Zhang has already knocked out 5 opponents as good as Rogelio Rossi, so this fight doesn't really mean anything. He needs to fight someone in the top 75, like Faisal Arrami or Pawel Kolodziej.

Since KO'g Rossi in the first round he's KO'd 3 more opponents in the 1st or 2nd round, most recently Machimana in South Africa in round one in July.

Okay. I assume that means we're in agreement, then.

Basically what I'm trying to say is that Zhang has fought about 6 opponents as good as Rossi (Machinama, Farrah, Rossi, Arias, Cox, and Gavern) including Rossi himself; and he won them all by round 1-3 stoppage. All of them had a boxrec rating between 20 and 28. So it's basically a complete waste of time for Zhang to fight anyone that isn't in the top 75 rankings (i.e. a boxrec rating of > 30).

Sure we’re in agreement. Why not? I’d like to see him move up. I’d also like to see boxing become popular in China. If they had a heavyweight - or one of the higher weights - champ or top contender that would be a huge boost to the popularity of the sport in the country.

[Andrew]

Do you know what happened to taishan dong? He didn't fight at all in 2016

I would assume he is sensibly working on his boxing skills in the gym rather than knocking over cans on undercards.

I trained around this dude years ago when he was just a kid and he was ginormous then and was working incredibly hard. He's not like Valuev, who was kinda disfigured and not very well really: Taishan is a ridiculous specimen, as strong as you can be for a 7 foot guy and I think just a natural giant. I would hope he is locked away in a gym somewhere working on his fundamentals because he is still fairly young and, while he is unlikely to win a world title, could pose a problem for most top 15 heavyweights if moved right and earn himself a few quid.

He was looking shite in his fights when he was active so going off radar for a while so he can learn more seems sensible.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W4yrQBctm68