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Frank Warren wants to create a āBig Bangā in China
WHEN it comes to creating highlight-reel KO moments, Chinese heavyweight Zhilei Zhang is pretty adept at adding his work to the footage file.Ā
Spinning Deontay Wilder around before detonating on his available chin, without remorse, was the final scene of a captivating five-versus-five Saudi stage play.Ā
The question is, where will the 41-year-old finisher end up next? Promoter Frank Warren, who has found himself possessing a surprisingly useful asset, can answer that.
āWeāre blessed with heavyweights at Queensberry,ā beamed Warren. āZhilei done a brilliant job. I mean, I like him. Heās such a character, such a nice guy and he really bought into the team spirit of Queensberry against Matchroom.
āHe was one of our star performers and obviously got us the knockout points. Iād love to do a fight for him in China.ā
Keen to tap a Chinese market reportedly desperate to consume boxing, Bob Arum previously went to Macau, taking the likes of Vasiliy Lomachenko and Manny Pacquiao with him. While the casinos on that island seemed like a welcoming new dawn at the time, Arum, tellingly, has not been back in recent years. The impressively imposing Birdās Nest Arena (National Stadium) in Beijing seems to be more to Warrenās taste.
āIād like to be on mainland China,ā he disclosed. āIād like to go out there because the hits he [Zhang] got apparently on their social media was like hundreds of millions. There was many, many millions watched his fight. I think he got more hits than anyone, but of course, we want to carry on doing what weāre doing because we want to see him in big fights.ā
Snaring a legitimate belt can be difficult when the best two fighters in the division, Usyk and Fury, are busy duking it out for the titles. As the Wilder vs. Zhang fight showed, however, interesting stylistic matchups can be created in the interim to keep boxers busy until the hardware is freed up.
āHe wants to be in big fights. At the moment, the belts are all tied up until Tyson and Usyk fight in December. In the meantime he wonāt want to be sitting on his backside, he wants to be busy and itās our job to keep him busy,ā said Frank Warren.
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