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Zou Shiming to return in January

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Zou Shiming (R) fighting flyweight titleholder Amnat Ruenroeng on March 7, 2015. Photo by Chris Farina - Top Rank.

Zou Shiming (R) fighting flyweight titleholder Amnat Ruenroeng on March 7, 2015. Photo by Chris Farina – Top Rank.

After an unsuccessful attempt at winning a world title last year, Chinese flyweight Zou Shiming will fight Natan Santana Coutinho on Jan. 30, Top Rank matchmaker recently told RingTV. The 12-round bout will take place at the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai.

Zou (6-1, 1 KO) last fought on Mar. 7 in Macau, losing a 12-round unanimous decision to IBF flyweight world titleholder Amnat Ruenrong.

A two-time Olympic gold medalist trained by Freddie Roach, Zou will fight for the first time in mainland China, where he is extremely popular, after fighting all seven of his pro bouts in Macau.

Coutinho (12-0, 10 KOs), who hails from Sao Paolo, Brazil, has only fought once in 2015. The 21-year-old has knocked out his last seven opponents but all of them were there to be beaten.



Japanese middleweight Ryota Murata (8-0, 5 KOs), who also won a gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, will appear on the card as well.

Francisco A. Salazar has written for RingTV since October of 2013 and has covered boxing in Southern California and abroad since 2000. Francisco also covers boxing for the Ventura County (CA) Star newspaper, Boxingscene.com, and Knockout Nation. He can be reached by email at [email protected] or on Twitter at FSalazarBoxing

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