However, at present, what Xu can wants to do most is to be able to conduct a unified war with the current IBF heavyweight champion and British famous champion Warrington and become a “super champion”.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, December 2 (reporter Lu Yuchen) after the United States successfully defended the second degree of World Boxing Association (WBA), the gold belt of the world champion, xu Can, China’s only active world professional champion “monster”, said in an interview in Beijing recently that his “evolution” is all-round and there is still more potential to be explored in the future.
Two panic in the King’s heart
After 12 rounds of fighting, Xu Can defeated the American boxer Manni Robles III with a 3:0 unanimous penalty in California on November 23, successfully defended China’s current only world champion golden belt.
“In fact, the opponent had a hook in the eighth round at that time. From then on to the end of the game, there were basically no people and no focus.” Xu Can, whose right eye was covered with blood, was dressed in red, sitting at the M23 boxing fitness club and recalled, “I panicked for ten seconds at that time, but later it was still stable.”
This is not his only panic. In the middle of training preparation, Xu Can’s shoulder was accidentally injured. This has also seriously affected the training and mentality. “Good training, my mentality is good. But the training after the injury at that time was just like playing every day, so I was very anxious.” Xu can said that these days were very difficult. Fortunately, the team found a doctor to treat him in time, and his condition gradually eased after three weeks.
“Evolution” is more than a little bit
on this defending war, Xu can hit 1562 punches to create a historical record of the number of punches made by professional boxing feather. Xu can attributed it to physical children’s skills, solid daily training and coach Pedro’s training.
“When I was a child, my father often asked me to jump rope for running. Once I jumped at most for about an hour, and my father made me stop.” Xu can said that he was less than ten years old at that time.
In the eyes of others, Xu Can’s normal self-discipline and training are almost “abnormal”. Not only is it often self-increasing during daily training, but also the physical reserve can reach up to 15 rounds of actual training.
The technological “evolution” brought by coach Pedro to Xu can is the pace of upgrading. On defending war, Xu Can’s hooking and lateral moving attacks made people shine at the moment.
In Xu Can’s view, Pedro makes himself “evolve” more psychological: a more confident Xu can. The experienced Pedro is very good at giving psychological counseling to his disciples, especially the stress relief before the competition. After all, in Xu Can’s words, the most difficult time in the stadium is the waiting time.
“The energy in him is very strong, which allows me to show myself more fully on the court.”
Road, endless
Does Xu can still have room for “evolution” in the future? Neither Xu can nor Lu Xiaolong, the CEO of boxing Wei, gave a positive answer without hesitation.
“As a professional athlete, I always feel that Xu Can’s potential is far from being presented.” Lu Xiaolong said, “I believe that in the future, his biggest opponent may be himself. There is no end to boxing, and more achievements are waiting for him.”
There are more expectations for Xu can, Lu Xiaolong. For example, feel more spring for Chinese professional boxing and even Chinese professional sports. Just after this defending war, he felt that the reaction of the market was much stronger than the previous two wins.
“Maybe professional sports or professional boxing market is like this. It requires you to prove yourself constantly, and then this market will truly recognize your strength and public influence. We just found a feeling of flattering.”
When talking about the influence of public figures in the sports circle, it is inevitable that various commercial activities and entertainment programs will be involved. However, Xu Can, who is addicted to boxing, does not seem to be keen on this, while Lu Xiaolong said that for professional sports athletes in the field, the results on the field are the king; No results, all the hype is “playing hooligans”.
Lu Xiaolong expects that compared with his predecessors, Xu can may become the one who changes the direction of Chinese professional boxing. There are three reasons: firstly, Xu can, 25 years old, is in the rising stage and has won the golden belt of the world champion three times; Secondly, the society’s attention to professional boxing is gradually warming up; Finally, xu Can’s professional quality is valuable.
“Xu can owes all his achievements to himself. In him, we can see the self-discipline, modesty, desire for victory and focus on boxing of the world’s top athletes. If there are more and more people like him, China’s professional sports will become stronger and stronger.”
The future, unlimited possibilities
The Road to the future is slowly unfolding. The restrictions on banning professional athletes from participating in the Olympic Games have been canceled. So, will Xu can consider playing the Olympic Games?
“If the country needs it, I will go.” Xu can gave the simplest and least simple reply.
Professional Boxing and Olympic boxing are two completely different technical systems and competition systems. As a professional boxer, he needs to constantly defeat one challenger after another to defend the golden belt of the world champion. If preparing for the Olympics, it also means that he may give up defending. Lu Xiaolong said that they also hope to have a mature Olympic recruitment system to achieve docking.
But at present, what Xu can wants to do most is to be able to conduct a unified war with the current IBF heavyweight champion and British famous general Warrington and become a “super champion”.
“My pursuit of boxing now is to be able to play every match more wonderfully.”