How would you rate Zhang?

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  1. Boxing2019

    Boxing2019 If you want peace, prepare war. banned Full Member

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    He can box
     
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  2. ChiefGego

    ChiefGego Active Member Full Member

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    He's the last HW I would want to fight rn if I was in the top 10 and he will ZHANG you up if you're not on your game but you just have to survive the first 6 rounds and he'll slow right down. Low output but massive impact, good boxing, just got stamina problems

    Zhang Dubois would be good now
     
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  3. Rico Spadafora

    Rico Spadafora Master of Chins Full Member

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    If the belts get splintered I see no reason why he can’t win one of them. Needs to be around 270 though. He is a savage puncher.
     
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  4. UmarIFLUmar

    UmarIFLUmar Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Too old.

    If he was 5 years younger then he'd probably pick up a belt eventually but at this point he's one loss from retirement.
     
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  5. drenlou

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    Top 5.

    Usyk
    Fury
    Parker imo
    Joshua
    ZHANG
     
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  6. FastSmith7

    FastSmith7 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Zhang with Usyk's gas tank and similar volume would be the best heavyweight of all time bar none.
     
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  7. Rilz

    Rilz Ball don't lie! Full Member

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    He is pure entertainment. The man hurts everyone that gets in the ring with him, no exceptions. He's made a fan out of me, and it is a shame that he is already on the wrong side of 40.
     
    Rilz, Jun 2, 2024
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  8. Jab in the Face

    Jab in the Face Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Good list but we won’t know the true order until they all fight one another
     
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  9. Babality

    Babality KTFO!!!!!!! Full Member

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    Zhang is a slow mover but he has pretty fast hands for his size.
     
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  10. CST80

    CST80 The Hesitant Nihilist Staff Member

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    A slow on his feet, lumbering, overall average to subpar boxer, who throws three punches per round and gasses out doing that, who is shockingly easy to outbox. Who only looks exceptional against face first plodders who throw themselves into his punches. Who also just so happens to have some of the nastiest **** you power I've ever seen, which will always be his great equalizer. It's not even that his vicious right hook or straight left are particularly fast, merely the velocity in which his opponents hit the mat when he grazes them, makes them seem like it. Essentially, he's a more coordinated front foot version of prime Wilder.
     
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  11. catchwtboxing

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    He is what he is. He is mostly a 3-4 round fighter, but what a 3-4 rounds.
     
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  12. DoubleG95Fanatic

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    The problem I have with him is he’s 41 and I’ve only seen him fight at the tip for a few years. Never saw anything of him before Hrogovic. Where the **** was he all this time?

    Don’t see him becoming champion unfortunately, case of too little too late. The world champions are all gonna be tied up for the next year or 2 so tough to see him even getting a shot.

    He should chase the Hrgovic rematch next.
     
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  13. Jab in the Face

    Jab in the Face Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Zhang beats Fury
    Zhang loses to Usyk
    Zhang v AJ is a 40-60

    so on that I'd go with


    Current Ratings

    Usyk
    AJ
    Zhang
    Fury
    Parker
     
    Jab in the Face, Jun 2, 2024
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  14. Jab in the Face

    Jab in the Face Well-Known Member Full Member

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    C'mon now Hrgovic is the bum chaser, no way he takes a risky fight for at least the next 18 months. Zhang v Parker is the fight to make on the Fury v Usyk undercard.

    & if Zhang can make it 1-1, the trilogy is there while they wait for there title shot.
     
    Jab in the Face, Jun 2, 2024
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  15. Malph

    Malph Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Foreman, in his later years, fought economically and conserved his energy.

    The young Foreman that fought Ali did not and paid the price.
     
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