{"id":684696,"date":"2026-01-09T14:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T14:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/684696\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T14:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T14:57:10","slug":"zhilei-zhang-names-the-4-heavyweights-he-is-targetting-ahead-of-anticipated-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/684696\/","title":{"rendered":"Zhilei Zhang names the 4 heavyweights he is targetting ahead of anticipated comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"

After losing by knockout for the first time, Zhilei Zhang<\/a> is set to make his return to action. Now, the hard-hitting Chinese southpaw has revealed a four-man hit-list for a potential April comeback.<\/p>\n

In 2023, \u2018Big Bang\u2019 Zhang lost his WBO interim title to Joseph Parker but bounced back in style with a statement stoppage triumph against Deontay Wilder<\/a> to thrust himself back into world title contention.<\/p>\n

Although, last February, in his lone appearance of 2025, Zhang came up short when tasked with Agit Kabayel in a clash for the WBC interim crown, suffering a first defeat inside of the distance as he lost via body shot KO in the sixth round<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Since then, Zhang has been linked to a number of proposals, but the 42-year-old is yet to return. Speaking to Fights ATW<\/a>, Zhang\u2019s manager, Terry Lane, revealed that his fighter hopes to end his inactivity in April, against one of four big-name British rivals atop a London-based bill.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are now targeting early April in London for a fight I think the fans will love.<\/p>\n

\u201cI spoke with Zhilei today, and his 2026 wish list\/hit list are the following: Daniel Dubois, Tyson Fury, Fabio Wardley, and Derek Chisora.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Boxing News understands that Zhilei Zhang agreed to face Chisora in late 2025 of months ago, for what would be the latter\u2019s 50th professional bout.<\/p>\n

However, \u2018Del Boy\u2019 then opted to take on Dillian Whyte instead, only for that clash to collapse at the final hurdle and cause the cancellation of Chisora\u2019s proposed Manchester fight date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After losing by knockout for the first time, Zhilei Zhang is set to make his return to action.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-684696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115865730685750832","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}