Zhang Zhilei's Wife Revealed! He Abstained from Sex for 10 Years to Win the World Boxing Championship, and the Couple Had Little Physical Intimacy
This trip to Saudi Arabia also brought victory for Zhang Zhilei, making countless Chinese people proud!
However, what is unexpected is that Zhang Zhilei, who has brought countless honors to China's boxing arena, actually had no contact with boxing before the age of 16!
Not only that, his wife revealed the secret to Zhang Zhilei's success! That is to control his "contact" with his wife! This abstinence lasted for a full 10 years!
Initially a professional rower, Zhang Zhilei was recruited into the provincial team in 1998 by a boxing coach who saw his strong physique. This career change completely changed his life.
Most newcomers to the provincial team were around 11 years old, while 16-year-old Zhang Zhilei seemed to have little competitiveness. He himself was clear about the gap with others, and only by increasing his training volume could he have the qualifications to compete with opponents at the same level!
After more than two years of high-intensity training, Zhang Zhilei also ushered in his first boxing match: a national boxing competition. Zhang Zhilei, who did not hold too much hope, actually won third place in this competition!
For someone like him who had just started learning boxing, this result was already very ideal. This competition also made Zhang Zhilei realize his great talent, and a small seed was planted!
What was unexpected was that Zhang Zhilei's talent was far greater than he imagined! In the 2003 National Boxing Championships, Zhang Zhilei won the championship, and in just 5 years he went from a boxing novice to the national champion. The seed in his heart was growing further!
Some say: Zhang Zhilei's talent is really strong to reach the national championship level within 5 years.
But think about it, which of the participants in the national competition is not a genius. When all the contestants are geniuses, what they compete for is not talent but who makes more efforts.
As a boxer, Zhang Zhilei participated in countless national competitions from 2004 to 2013. As he received more honors domestically, his immature thoughts gradually emerged.
It wasn't until he saw the performance of Chinese boxers in world boxing competitions that his dream was fully revealed. He wanted to bring the title of world boxing champion back to his motherland!
But when his dream of becoming a world boxing champion was just revealed, he was met with cold eyes and ridicule from others. Zhang Zhilei did not let the words and actions of others affect himself, but instead turned anger into motivation to forge ahead.
But his dream was not so easy to achieve, because to participate in world boxing competitions, he needed a foreign club willing to sign him!
It wasn't until 2014 that Zhang Zhilei finally realized his dream of becoming a world champion.
Entering the world stage to meet new challenges
The American Dynasty Boxing Promotion Company was willing to sign him, and Zhang Zhilei was able to enter the world professional boxing arena as he wished. In August of the same year, Zhang Zhilei also ushered in his debut in the professional boxing arena.
As his debut, the audience on the scene did not look favorably upon this new Chinese boxer. However, Zhang Zhilei knocked out Curtis Lee Tate in just 17 seconds, showing his powerful strength in his first appearance. The audience was also incredulous!
Being in the professional boxing arena, Zhang Zhilei did not relax after one victory, but instead designed a meticulous training plan for himself to maintain his reflexes and physical fitness. It was this day-to-day persistence that made his career so brilliant!
His splendid career was not only due to his own perseverance, but also inseparable from the support and understanding of his wife!
Behind the success, the wife silently pays
Zhang Zhilei and Jiang Huanhuan met in the provincial team in 2000. They can be said to have developed feelings over time. They fell in love two years after knowing each other and officially registered their marriage on Christmas Day in 2006.
Every time Zhang Zhilei enters the ring, Jiang Huanhuan will be very nervous, after all, participating in world boxing competitions, there is always a risk of injury. However, Jiang Huanhuan did not persuade Zhang Zhilei to give up boxing because of the high risk factor. Jiang Huanhuan knew that becoming a world boxing champion was her husband's greatest wish.
Knowing Zhang Zhilei's wish, Jiang Huanhuan would unconditionally support his decision!
She would use her actions to tell the world that Zhang Zhilei is not fighting alone, and that there is a wife who will always support him behind him!
Since participating in world boxing competitions in 2014, Zhang Zhilei proposed the idea of abstinence to his wife, and his wife also unconditionally supported his request.
This abstinence lasted for ten years. During this period, Jiang Huanhuan unconditionally supported Zhang Zhilei. She did not complain to the outside world, but silently endured these things! Because she knew that Zhang Zhilei was not doing well either. The intense training plus the expectations of the outside world would only make Zhang Zhilei more painful!
Zhang Zhilei's road to becoming a world boxing champion not only relied on his efforts and talents, but also having a wife who understood him and was willing to silently pay for him was also his good fortune.
And Zhang Zhilei could make the decision to abstain, precisely because he knew about Tyson's experience that he would make such a decision!
Take it as a warning and enrich yourself
Tyson, as the youngest world boxing champion, can be said to have had an amazing life. At the young age of 20, he won the championships of the three major world-class boxing matches: WBC, WBA, and IBF, and later successfully defended the championship nine times. His record remains unbroken to this day!
Although he won countless awards with his super high talent, what was unexpected was that Tyson, relying on his youth, did not know how to restrain himself in life, often frequenting places of pleasure, and bringing different women in and out of hotels.
These things led to his body's response not being as good as before, and Tyson's career was greatly affected.
As a boxer who won the world championship nine times in a row, the audience thought it was a game without suspense. Who would have thought that Tyson would lose to James Douglas at a cold rate of 41 to 1!
One wave after another, in 1991, Tyson was accused of raping Desiree Washington, an African-American beauty queen, and was sentenced to prison!
Four years later, Tyson was paroled and returned to the boxing arena, vowing to regain his honor in 1996!
However, Tyson did not change himself after being released from prison. He still frequented places of pleasure and brought different women in and out of hotels. No matter how strong his talent is, without a good body, he cannot exert his true strength.
In 1996, Tyson successively regained the WBC and WBA world championship titles. In the same year, in order to regain the IBF championship, he gave up the defense of the WBC.
Just when everyone thought Tyson was finally going to regain his honor, something unexpected happened!
When Tyson competed with Holyfield for the IFB championship, he actually lost again in a cold manner, not only failing to win the IFB championship, but also losing his own honor! Subsequently, Tyson announced his retirement from the boxing arena at the age of 39!
Looking at Tyson's life, the reasons for these two failures were mostly because he did not focus on training and had a chaotic private life.
Zhang Zhilei, after understanding Tyson's situation, in order to maintain his perfect competitive state, not only arranged more comprehensive training for himself, but also forced himself to abstain in order to maintain his body's response ability!
Zhang Zhilei knows that he does not have Tyson's powerful talent, and he must be strict with himself if he wants to win the world championship belt!
On June 2nd of this year, our professional boxer Zhang Zhilei, under the arrangement of the organizer, faced his strongest opponent yet, Deontay Wilder.
Facing a strong opponent, the outcome is unexpected
When the news came out, fans were worried for Zhang Zhilei, although Zhang Zhilei's strength is not to be underestimated.
Zhang Zhilei also knew that Deontay was a formidable opponent, and trained even harder before the match.
Deontay is an American professional boxer and the owner of the WBC world championship.
In 2015, Deontay participated in the WBC heavyweight championship for the first time, and at this moment he welcomed his glorious moment, easily defeating Malik Scott and winning his first championship belt! In June of the same year, facing the challenge of Eric Molina, he responded with a knockout and successfully defended the championship.
In the next six years, no one could take away the championship title from him!
At the beginning of 2020, a match was held in Las Vegas, and Deontay was defeated by Tyson Fury due to carelessness. Although there was no championship at stake this time, it also made Deontay lose face.
Less than a year later, the WBC championship challenge match was also held in Las Vegas, USA. Tyson Fury, as the challenger, eventually met again. The meeting between the two sides was also filled with tension. Their strengths were similar