Data map: On the evening of November 23, 2019, local time, Indio, California, U.S., China ’s M23 team boxer and WBA featherweight world champion Xu Can defeated U.S. challenger Lobos away to win his second world champion. Defending the title and successfully defending China's only world champion gold belt. The picture shows Xu Can celebrating victory. Photo by Zhang Shuo of China News Agency

Chinanews client Beijing, March 9th (Xing Rui) On the 9th, the world boxing champion Xu Can ushered in his 26th birthday, while others received birthday gifts, but he sent them to Hubei on the eve of his birthday. A gift. He is preparing for the third defending battle in Bangkok, Thailand. In addition to his training, he is also doing his best to help the country's epidemic prevention and control.

On the evening of the 8th, seven Chinese boxers, including Ulan and Baishanbo, held the M23 International Professional Boxing Charity Tournament in Bangkok, Thailand. They launched local Chinese and overseas Chinese in the form of a contest to fight medical treatment in the frontline of the epidemic in Hubei Workers initiate charitable donations. Xu Can did not participate in the competition due to the constraints of the next defending battle, but he appeared as a guest commentator on stage, staged the first "narration show" in boxing career.

In fact, Xu Can had contributed to the fight against the epidemic long before this charity competition. In January, he donated 200,000 yuan to Hubei, and also called on the boxing fans to donate for the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic.

Data map: On the evening of November 23, 2019, Indio, California, USA, Chinese M23 team boxer and WBA featherweight world champion Xu Can (left) defeated U.S. challenger Robles away to win his second world boxing Wang defended the title and successfully defended China's only world champion gold belt. Photo by Zhang Shuo of China News Agency

Although Xu Can's ancestral home is Fuzhou, Jiangxi, Hubei is his second hometown. Xu Can's mother is from Suizhou, Hubei, and his birthplace is also here. In his childhood, Xu Can followed his parents to make cakes in various parts of the country. He only attended elementary school in Suizhou for a few years, but to this day, he still can't forget the “hometown dialect”.

In 2009, their family returned to Hubei and opened a rice cake shop. At that time, Xu Can was in junior high school, and he liked boxing from an early age. He proposed to his parents that he wanted to become a professional boxer. A family of three raised their hands to vote. Xu Can and his father "win" his mother 2: 1, his parents became sellers, and his son went to Kunming to learn boxing.

When they came to another country, Xu Can's family was not prosperous. Three people lived in a small shop, but because the business was not good, the shop was closed soon. My mother went to the restaurant to do cleaning, my dad became a security guard, and the couple supported the work for Xu Can by working part-time.

Like most rookies just starting out, at the beginning, Xu Can was practicing the fist and taking on the dirty work in the boxing hall. In the cold winter, Xu Can insisted on training in the boxing gym every day. According to his enlightenment coach Bao Jin recalled that although the training was hard, Xu Can was not forced to practice like some children, because he knew his parents would not give up everything for him to punch.

Bao Jin said that more than once he saw Xu Can's father squatting by the window and peeking at his son's training, watching Xiao Xu Can's sweating, his father often couldn't help crying.

Data map: In January 2019, Xu Can (right) and the World Boxing Association (WBA) Featherweight Champion and Puerto Rico player Rojas are in the game. Photo by China News Agency reporter Zeng Jingning

Fortunately, God will not disappoint hard-working people, and every drop of sweat that has flowed into Xu Can's powerful punch on the ring.

At the beginning of last year, he became famous in World War I, won the WBA Featherweight World Boxing Challenge, and became the first Chinese boxer to win the WBA World Boxer Gold Belt. In May of the same year, he defeated Japanese challenger Kubo Hiroshi in the sixth round of the first defending battle and successfully defended his title. In November, Xu Can fought away. After 12 rounds of bitter battle, he defeated American boxer Robles with points and defended the title again.

Xu Can also acknowledged that after receiving the golden belt, he received more attention and had more interviews. Along the way, Xu Can has gone from an unknown grassroots to a world champion. From Suizhou, to Kunming, and then to the United States, Xu Can has gone further and further, but in his heart, he still cares about him. The homeland that grew up.

Data map: On the evening of January 26, 2019, Chinese professional boxer Xu Can won the World Boxing Association (WBA) Featherweight Boxer Gold Belt at the Toyota Center Gym in Houston, USA. Photo by China News Agency reporter Zeng Jingning

Last year's Spring Festival, Xu Can returned to Suizhou to participate in the wedding of relatives. He used a local dialect to interview reporters, posed for pictures with boxing fans in Suizhou, and sent New Year blessings to his hometown fellows in the second hometown. The picture is full Warmth.

This sudden epidemic has actually affected Xu Can's schedule. His third defending battle was scheduled to be held in China in April. Now, I don't know if this game can be carried out as scheduled. Not only that, his new year's foreign training was also impacted. He had previously stayed in Kunming before flying to Bangkok to gather with the team until the afternoon of February 9.

Seeing the epidemic raging, Xu Can, who was overseas, could only send blessings to the second hometown through the charity match on the evening of the 8th. He said: "I hope that all members of M23 will pass boxing to everyone during the epidemic's attack. Determination and strength. "

According to regulations, Xu Can should conduct the third defending battle this year before May 26. No matter where the match is, the hearts of Chinese boxing fans will be with him, and I hope this big boy who has just turned 26 will continue to put gold The belt stays in China. Maybe this will be the next gift he gave to his elders. (Finish)