Two-time Olympic champion, but faced controversy because of his wife, the blood and sweat of "legendary boxing champion" Zou Shiming

What kind of Zou Shiming do you know?

The word that comes to everyone’s mind when mentioning Zou Shiming must be “boxing champion”. What comes to mind is the image of him wearing a boxing cape and gloves, facing his opponent with heavy punches.

In the boxing match, he looks fierce and victorious, but in life, he is actually a gentle and considerate husband and a humorous father.

Why did he suddenly retire when he was supposed to be brilliant in the boxing world?

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May 18, 1981, is an ordinary day for many people. Zou Jianguo’s child was born in a small village in Zunyi, Guizhou He was a son, but he was born with the appearance of a woman. Therefore, Zou Jianguo's wife, the baby's mother, always liked to dress him up like a girl, put him in skirts, and put smear on his face.

As he grew older, Xiao Zou could no longer tolerate his mother's behavior, so he learned to resist and refused to dress up.

Perhaps it was because his mother always raised him as a girl. Although Xiao Zou was a boy, he had always been thin. For the sake of Xiao Zou’s future and to strengthen his body, the Zou family reluctantly gave up Xiao Zou. He was sent to a martial arts school to learn martial arts. By chance, Xiao Zou came into contact with boxing and fell in love with it out of hand.

"If martial arts is about showing off one's tricks, then boxing is as fast as lightning and makes one feel more manly."

Xiao Zou said this in an interview many years later. An unintentional act many years ago unexpectedly led to Xiao Zou's success. Yes, Xiao Zou is today's protagonist, a generation of boxing champion Zou Shiming.

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In November 1999, Zou Shiming was selected into the national boxing training team and studied under coach Zhang Chuanliang.

From then on, Zou Shiming began his boxing career. Zou Shiming, who is training hard in the national team, is only 1.62 meters tall. His short stature puts him at a disadvantage in the competition. He is often beaten and injured all over his body. Even so, he still perseveres. Being favored by others, he had no choice but to use his strength to fight off the rumors amidst the criticism.

2003 was an important year for Zou Shiming, the first turning point in his life. At the age of only 22, Zou Shiming represented the country in the World Boxing Championships and won the first place in his life. Although it was only a silver medal, it achieved China's first breakthrough in the World Boxing Championships.

Zou Shiming, who won the award, seemed to be reborn and continued to win medals in subsequent competitions.

As we all know, boxing is a high-risk profession, and injuries all over the body are commonplace. During one training, Zou’s mother came to visit the class. Seeing that there was no healthy spot on her body, her son couldn’t help but blush. What should I say? I won’t let my son do this again.

Zou Shiming revealed to the media:

"The coach talked to me that day and said, since you don’t practice, you can go back with your mother. Then I said to the coach, I Growing up, boxing is the only thing I am most interested in and I won’t be praised if I don’t give up halfway. I have had no self-confidence since I was a child, and I have rarely received recognition from others. I must stick to boxing. ”

After the coach heard this, he agreed that Zou Shiming would continue to stay in the national team.

Zou Shiming, who won two gold medals and one bronze medal at the Olympics, decided to withdraw from the system and enter professional boxing. This decision directly changed his future destiny.

Zou Shiming, who has moved to the professional boxing competition, has won many medals as he fights and fights bravely, but the most glorious moment in Zou Shiming’s professional boxing career is the professional boxing performance performed at the Venetian Macao’s Cotai Arena in 2014. Boxing "Golden Lights Final 2".

Zou Shiming and Thai boxing champion Kun Biqi competed for the right to forcefully challenge the WBO flyweight world boxing championship gold belt. Zou Shiming’s brow bone was broken by Kun Biqi and blood flowed out, staining the arena with blood. In this case, Zou Shiming still relied on his own perseverance and strength to fight Kun Biqi for 12 rounds and win by points, winning six consecutive professional matches and winning the right to challenge for the world boxing championship gold belt.

This game was extremely bloody, which also laid hidden dangers for Zou Shiming's later eye problems.

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In 2006, the well-known Zou Shiming met his future wife Ran Yingying when he returned to his hometown in Zunyi.

A boxer and a top student from Peking University fell in love at first sight. The two relied on their own charm to make each other's favor increase. Meeting Ran Yingying was the second turning point in Zou Shiming's life.

Considering his own career issues, Zou Shiming couldn't help but worry whether this kind of "there is no tomorrow after today" can give Xiaoran enough sense of security and give her a future, so during the period of falling in love Zou Shiming proposed breaking up many times, as many as 23 times according to memories, but Xiao Ran rejected them one by one.

Finally, Zou Shiming, who was far away in Cuba, sent a text message to Ran Yingying: Yingying, it’s time to prepare for the Olympics. Let’s cut off the contact first and wait for my return. Ran Yingying only replied with the word "good" and truly broke the connection.

During this period, Ran Yingying was working while waiting for the Olympic Games. For her, it was not just a grand Olympic Games, but also an agreement. She was waiting for Zou Shiming to arrive as promised.

As expected, Zou Shiming returned home in triumph, and the first thing he did was to propose to Ran Yingying, and the two finally got married.

After her marriage in 2011, Ran Yingying quit her job and devoted herself to handling all matters except boxing for Zou Shiming, so that Zou Shiming had no worries.

Later, Zou Shiming gave birth to a son, Zou Mingxuan. As the saying goes, art and sports do not separate families. With the popularity of "Where Are We Going, Dad", Zou Shiming took his son Zou Mingxuan to participate in the third season of During the recording, Zou Shiming gained a lot of exposure due to this program, and the naughty and cute look of the two father and son was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Zou Shiming also has a tendency to enter the entertainment industry, but his frequent participation in program recordings has aroused heated discussions. Many people question whether he has forgotten his original intention and whether he still remembers his identity as a boxer.

In response to these criticisms, he replied: "After participating in "Where Are We Going, Dad", I can still win the championship."

However, he has not touched the gloves for eight months because he was running a variety show. . Can he still win?

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He said he wanted to transform from a "gold medal machine" to a "charming boxing champion" and rejected any criticism that he was "not doing his job properly".

However, as a middle-aged man, there were many obstacles in his return to the boxing ring. The high-intensity recovery training was unbearable for his body. He often fell ill and was accompanied by medicine. There were also hidden dangers in the decisive battle with Kun Biqi in 2004. Zou Shiming was once blind due to eye diseases, which became obstacles for him when he returned from the "entertainment field" to the "game field".

In a subsequent World Boxing Organization flyweight world championship gold belt competition, Zou Shiming won. He showed off his belt on Weibo to celebrate, proving that he still has the strength to keep training. However, it was revealed that his opponent was an 18-year-old Mexican youngster, whose strength was still weak and the game was watery.

After every game, Zou Shiming would run offstage and kiss his wife passionately, but Ran Yingying’s dressing style made netizens afraid to compliment her. Over-exposure and “fringe” were the labels given to her by netizens. The face that was suspected of having undergone "plastic surgery" was even more ridiculed.

Ran Yingying once claimed to be a CCTV host, but netizens revealed that she was just an "outsourced employee" of the CCTV Securities Information Channel.

Rumors swept through the lives of Zou Shiming's family. The way to break the rumors was to prove himself with strength. However, in the game where Zou Shiming wanted to prove himself with strength, he lost.

His opponent Sho Kimura can be said to be the best candidate carefully selected by Zou Shiming's management team. He is 28 years old and is in poverty. He works part-time delivering food to support himself while training, and his training time is only two nights in the evening. hours.

Due to a long period of lack of training and eye problems, Zou Shiming, who was unable to fight back on the field, lost. In this game, Zou Shiming announced his retirement, and his boxing career ended at the age of 36.

The Internet is full of various voices, and many netizens are criticizing him and his wife. Some people say that this is the result of his multitasking, while others say that all this is due to his wife's excessive behavior. Marketing, blindly wanting to be famous and making easy money led to today's hasty retirement, and the last professional game in life ended in failure.

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There is no denying Zou Shiming’s contribution to the field of boxing in China. He won China’s first medal in the boxing world championships and proved to the world that China Boxing is not inferior to foreign countries.

Zou Shiming, like Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee, kicked over the "Sick Man of East Asia" brand and changed foreign stereotypes of China. At the same time, he also brought boxing culture to the country and let more Chinese people Learn about and join the sport of boxing.

He is by far the most outstanding boxer in China.

I believe that more netizens are angry that he should not have retired like this. He should have retired honorably as the defending champion. He was too disappointed because of too high expectations. The current situation can't help but remind me of the original Liu Xiang is so sad.

Zou Shiming, who retired, concentrates on running his own sports company, opening a boxing club, and promoting boxing. At the same time, he has his beloved wife and three sons by his side, which can be considered a complete life.