Boxing: Zou wins professional debut

Zou is the first light-flyweight to win three Olympic medals.

MACAU: Double Olympic gold medallist Zou Shiming of China scored a unanimous points victory in a four-round professional boxing debut in Macau as the gambling hub took a step towards becoming a boxing destination. Zou, whose bronze in Athens was China’s first Olympic boxing medal, won gold at the Beijing Games and beat Thailand’s Kaeo Pongprayoon in London last year to become the first light-flyweight to win three Olympic medals.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 8^th, 2013.