Round 3: Joyce comes out trying to stick that jab in there, also trying to get his short hook around the side. Joyce’s right eye not looking great already, but that’ll happen when a 280 lb guy is landing 55 percent of his power shots. Another left got in there. Good body shot from Zhang, Joyce pecking and poking way up top. Joyce with a good little hook. The activity level from Joyce is helping him a lot now, still eating the odd shot, but not as many. Joyce’s best round so far, but Zhang backs him down with another left, and then another lands. The telling shots are still coming from Zhang right now. Zhang 10-9, 30-27.
Vargas (36-1-1, 22 KOs), who was unhappy with the knockdowns and thought he should not have been given a count, said through an interpreter: “Yes, of course I will fight Ball in a rematch. I would even go to his backyard to fight him.”
The British sportswriter Pierce Egan coined the term “the sweet science” as an epithet for prizefighting – or more fully “the sweet science of bruising” as a description of England’s bare-knuckle fight scene in the early nineteenth century.
7:50 p.m. ET/ 0:50 p.m. GMT: It’s been a long night and a very entertaining one. Now, it’s the main event. Former WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder is looking to take down Chinese giant Zhilei Zhang. We switch back to round-by-round coverage. Will we need it?
Tyson was someone who used this style due to being smaller than almost all of his opponents. He’d immediately take away their advantage of range by walking straight to his opponents and getting in close. Boxers, such as Marvis Frazier, just couldn’t cope.
By the closing bell it felt a difficult matchup to call, but it was Hrgovic who found himself on the favourable side of the judges’ cards to come through the toughest test of his professional career by a considerable distance.
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“I can fight any one of those guys, but do they want to fight me?,” Zhang, a rare heavyweight lefty, muses through interpreter Kurt Li. “This is one of the major problems out there, maybe because I’m an underdog, I don’t have a name yet. And what if they lose?”
Zhang speaks the Henan variety of Central Plains Mandarin in most of his post-match interviews and on his social media Douyin and Weibo, which has become a signature characteristic of his, as those born before the mid-1980s are the last generation to speak Central Plains Mandarin fluently. It and other languages of China have been gradually replaced by Beijing Mandarin in the younger generation in Henan and provinces all over China.
If a “clinch” – a defensive move in which a boxer wraps their opponent’s arms and holds on to create a pause – is broken by the referee, each fighter must take a full step back before punching again (alternatively, the referee may direct the fighters to “punch out” of the clinch). When a boxer is knocked down, the other boxer must immediately cease fighting and move to the furthest neutral corner of the ring until the referee has either ruled a knockout or called for the fight to continue.
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Reached R16 at 2023 Australian Open (l. Pliskova) taking her ranking to a high of No. 22. Zhang failed to win a singles match after Lyon in January and ended her season early after Montreal (l. Blinkova). In doubles, won the 2023 title at Abu Dhabi (w/Stefani) and reached semifinals at Doha (w/Olmos) and Wimbledon (w/Dolehide). Won third career singles title at Lyon (d. Yastremska in F) and 12th doubles title in Nottingham (w/Haddad Maia) in 2022 Finished the season at No. 24, very close to previous best career ranking of No. 23 (Nov 14, 2016); in doubles climbed as high as No. 2 on July 11, 2022 Reached fourth singles final of career in 2021, finishing R-Up at Nottingham (l. Konta). Also advanced to SF at Palermo and QF at San Jose Enjoyed strong campaign in doubles in 2021 winning three tiles, at Cincinnati and US Open (w/Stosur) and Ostrava (w/Mirza). Qualified for WTA Finals for first time (w/Stosur) however failed to progress from group stage Season highlight in 2020 was reaching third career WTA singles final (l. Rybakina in F) and finished R-Up in doubles at Hobart (w/Peng), which marks the first time she made it through to the championship match in both singles and doubles at the same tour-level event Also in 2020, made R16 at Roland Garros for the first time; now has advanced to second week in three Grand Slams across hard, grass and clay Standout results of 2019 season were reaching second Grand Slam singles QF of career at Wimbledon (l. eventual champion Halep), finishing R-Up at WTA125K Series event in Anning, China (l. S.Zheng) and closing out season by winning $100k ITF/Tokyo-JPN (d.Paolini in F) Registered first Top 10 doubles season in 2019-finished at No.10 while posted career-high ranking at No.9 on May 20 Won first Grand Slam title in doubles at 2019 Australian Open (w/Stosur; d. Babos/Mladenovic in F); also reached final at Miami w/Stosur (l. Mertens/Sabalenka). Team qualified for WTA Finals in Shenzhen (Zhang’s debut at the season finale) where they advanced to SF (l. eventual champions Babos/Mladenovic) First Top 30 season in 2016, posted career-high ranking of No.23 on November 14 Enjoyed Grand Slam breakthrough at 2016 Australian Open, where she advanced to QF as qualifier (d. No.2 Halep and No.17 Key en route, l. Konta). Run also marked first time winning back-to-back main draw matches since semifinal run at 2014 Birmingham As a qualifier during 2016 Melbourne run, defeated No.2 Halep and No.17 Keys (l. Konta). Ranked No.133, became lowest-ranked player to advance to last eight in Melbourne since unranked Henin reached final in 2010, and first qualifier to do so since Gavaldon in 1990 Contemplated retirement after ending 2015 ranked No.186, her lowest year-end finish since 2008 (No.212) and down from No.62 site in yahoo.com 2014 Winner of two WTA singles titles, at 2013 Guangzhou (d. King in F) and 2017 Guangzhou (d. Krunic in F); also won WTA 125K Series events at Nanjing in 2013 and Honolulu in 2017 Scored first Top 10 win over then top ranked Safina in 1r at 2009 Beijing; at No.226, was the lowest-ranked player ever to beat a World No.1 First broke into Top 100 on August 9, 2010 and Top 50 on February 3, 2014 Made WTA qualifying debut at 2006 Beijing; made WTA main draw debut at 2006 Guangzhou Winner of 21 singles titles and eight doubles titles on ITF Circuit Member of Chinese Fed Cup team in 2007, 2009-10, 2012, 2014-15, 2019-20. Chinese Olympic Team, 2012, 2016 In mixed doubles, reached SF at 2018 US Open (w/Peers)