Turki Alalshikh is a big fan of hard-hitting heavyweight Zhilei Zhang and wants to make the fight fans have been calling for in his homeland of China.
Zhang is coming off a devastating knockout victory over Deontay Wilder and had been expected to activate his rematch clause to face Joseph Parker next in an attempt to avenge the loss.
However, Riyadh Season’s Alalshikh revealed his intentions on a twitter space with Charlie Parsons for a China card in December against fellow giant heavyweight Martin Bakole.
“We are thinking about doing something in the first week of December in China, but it is 50/50, we haven’t agreed it yet… Yes [Zhang would headline in China]. You know who I want to see against Zhang now? Martin Bakole. It would be a blood fight. Why not?”
Speaking to Box Nation about a potential fight against Zhang, Bakole, who calls himself the ‘most avoided heavyweight’, vowed to stop and retire the 41-year-old.
“I’ll stop him He’s too old for me. I have power. I have big engine like him. I can move. I’ll do things no one has ever done. And he will cry like Anderson after the fight, or maybe retire.”
In response, Zhang predicted an early nights works, dispatching of Bakole within 5 rounds.
“That’s what every fighter says before a fight. Everybody wants to make me cry, make me retire, but see what happens, we don’t do talking, we do the actions, we’re righters. Everybody said they want to knock me out. Zero have succeeded … It won’t last five.”
Zhang-Bakole would certainly be a fan pleaser with it almost impossible to see the fight going the distance.
