Asian heavyweights?

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    Asian Heavyweights~??

    There's a heavyweight from India.... Don't remember his name.... But he was an Olympian...

    Is China Smith asian... China the Dragon...

    If there are any Asian Heavyweights, probably from Korea....
     
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    China Smith is black
     
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    If you consider Samoans Asian (they may be offended if you did) you have Thunder, Toia, Tua...

    Technically, Valuev. I know Russia (though it straddles both) is considered a European and not an Asian country, but he is a Tatar.

    India has an active undefeated heavyweight:
    http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=74684&cat=boxer
     
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    thats cause kostya has a korean background
     
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    Chinese bronze medalist from the last games. Got clobbered by better fighters but won some as well.
    [ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Zhilei[/ame]
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    Uh, in case you didn't notice, he's African American (Manny Yarbrough), and he's an amateur sumo wrestler. At least pull an actual Asian heavyweight, like Yamamotoyama.

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    The guy from China will be fighting soon.
     
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    pro? It will be interesting to see how well he does.
     
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    Sure won't be Beibut Shumanov...
     
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    I remember that dude. Sean O'Grady went on and on about the shoes.