Wulan Tuolehazi
Born
乌兰托了哈孜, Kazakh: Ұлан Төлеуғазы

(1993-03-05) 5 March 1993
Xibert village, Emin County, Xinjiang, China
NationalityChinese
Other namesTianshan Snow Leopard
Statistics
Weight(s)Flyweight
Height163 cm (5 ft 4 in)
Reach164 cm (65 in)
StanceOrthodox
Boxing record[1]
Total fights21
Wins15
Wins by KO7
Losses5
Draws2

Wulan Tuolehazi (Chinese: 乌兰托了哈孜; born 5 March 1993 Kazakh: Ұлан Төлеуғазы[2]) is a Chinese professional boxer who challenged for the WBO flyweight title in 2019.

Early life

Wulan born on 5 March 1993 into an ethnic Kazakh family of herdsmen in Xibert village, Emin County, Tacheng Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China.[3][4] At one point his parents owned 200 sheep and 20 cattle.[3] He learned to ride a horse at the age of five, and began school at age seven.[3] He began freestyle wrestling in 2007 while in primary school, but switched over to boxing the following year after he was spotted by Tang Bo, head boxing coach at the Ürümqi Sports School.[3] Coming from a poor background, he hoped to make enough money by fighting in order to support his family.[4]

He represented Ürümqi at the 2010 Xinjiang National Games, winning a gold medal.[3] The following year he represented Xinjiang at the National Youth Championships, finishing as runner-up to national team member He Junjun.[3] Even though he had switched sports, he also practiced Greco-Roman wrestling, winning a Xinjiang Youth Greco-Roman Championship.[3] After graduating from the sports school, he temporarily gave up boxing to attend Xinjiang Normal University, where he opened a boxing club.[3] During his third year of studies he accepted his first offer for a professional boxing match.

In his amateur career, he won the Xinjiang championship five times.[5]

Professional career

With little connections on the professional scene, Wulan began his career with inexperienced management and poor matchmaking.[5][6] After fighting at light flyweight during his amateur career, Wulan made his professional debut on 28 November 2015 at super bantamweight, losing by unanimous decision (UD) after eight rounds against 19-year-old Jian Wang in Suzhou.[3] Only a few weeks later he was defeated in his second bout against Van Thao Tran in South Korea. After two wins, he lost to Xian Qian Wei by way of UD on 21 October 2016, dropping to 2–3.[5] He joined Team M23 and Quanwei Sihai Promotions in May 2017, dropping to a more natural flyweight class.[5] On 5 May 2018 he knocked down former world champion Kwanthai Sithmorseng three times in four rounds, improving his record to 7–3–1.[5] He defeated Watana Phenbaan by fourth-round technical knockout (TKO) in Qingdao on 27 July 2018 to win the interim WBO Asia Pacific flyweight title, his first regional belt.[5] Two months later he handed undefeated Filipino youngster Jayr Raquinel his first career loss to take the vacant WBC Silver flyweight title, being favored unanimously by the judges in Changsha with scores of 117–111, 116–111 and 116–111.[7][8] The bout was rated three out of five stars by AlltheBestFights.com as one of the top fights of the year,[9] and Wulan entered the top 10 of the WBC rankings in February 2019.[10]

On 30 March 2019 Wulan faced Japanese prospect Ryota Yamauchi in Shanghai for the vacant WBA International flyweight title. He dropped Yamauchi with a right uppercut in the third round en route to a UD victory (117–109, 117–109 and 115–112), although he was also knocked down in the fight.[11] The bout was given three out of five stars by AlltheBestFights.com.[12] He retained his belt two months later on 26 May against Ardin Diale,[13] and again on 17 October with a fifth-round stoppage of Satoshi Tanaka for his eighth consecutive victory.[14] On New Year's Eve 2019, he unsuccessfully challenged Kosei Tanaka in Tokyo for the WBO flyweight title. The world champion hit Wulan with a devastating three-piece combo of uppercuts late in the third round that kept him on the mat for about two minutes.[15][16] Wulan rebounded from his unsuccessful title challenge with a sixth-round technical knockout victory over Jomar Fajardo in Bangkok on 8 March 2020.[17]

Professional boxing record

23 fights 15 wins 6 losses
By knockout 7 2
By decision 8 4
Draws 2
No. Result Record Opponent Type Round, time Date Location Notes
23 Loss 15–6–2 Uzbekistan Olimjon Nazarov SD 10 13 Jan 2024 South Korea PARADISE CITY, Incheon, South Korea For WBO Oriental flyweight title
22 Loss 15–5–2 Japan Taku Kuwahara KO 6 (8), 2:10 11 Jul 2023 Japan Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Japan For OPBF flyweight title
21 Draw 15–4–2 Japan Sho Kimura MD 10 25 Jan 2023 Thailand Spaceplus Bangkok RCA, Bangkok, Thailand For WBA International flyweight title
20 Win 15–4–1 China Guangheng Luan UD 6 24 Nov 2022 China China
19 Win 14–4–1 Philippines Jomar Fajardo TKO 6 (8), 2:56 8 Mar 2020 Thailand Suan Lum Night Bazaar Ratchadaphisek, Bangkok, Thailand
18 Loss 13–4–1 Japan Kosei Tanaka KO 3 (12), 2:29 31 Dec 2019 Japan Ota City General Gymnasium, Tokyo, Japan For WBO flyweight title
17 Win 13–3–1 Japan Satoshi Tanaka TKO 5 (12), 2:15 17 Oct 2019 China Yangze River Delta Roadshow Center, Shanghai, China Retained WBA International flyweight title
16 Win 12–3–1 Philippines Ardin Diale MD 12 26 May 2019 China Fuzhou, China Retained WBA International flyweight title
15 Win 11–3–1 Japan Ryota Yamauchi UD 12 30 Mar 2019 China PuTuo Stadium, Shanghai, China Won vacant WBA International flyweight title
14 Win 10–3–1 Philippines Roland Jay Biendima TKO 9 (10), 2:09 10 Jan 2019 China Beijing, China
13 Win 9–3–1 Philippines Jayr Raquinel UD 12 28 Sep 2018 China Changsha Social Work College Gymnasium, Changsha, China Won vacant WBC Silver flyweight title
12 Win 8–3–1 Thailand Watana Phenbaan TKO 4 (10), 0:45 27 Jul 2018 China Qingdao Guosen Gymnasium, Qingdao, China Won interim WBO Asia Pacific flyweight title
11 Win 7–3–1 Thailand Kwanthai Sithmorseng TKO 4 (10), 0:26 5 May 2018 China Guang'an Stadium, Guang'an, China
10 Win 6–3–1 Japan Takeshi Kaneko KO 2 (6), 1:43 6 Apr 2018 China Putuo Stadium, Shanghai, China
9 Draw 5–3–1 Japan Takeshi Kaneko SD 6 20 Oct 2017 Japan Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Japan
8 Win 5–3 Indonesia Noldi Manakane UD 10 7 May 2017 China Shan Xi Normal University Stadium, Xi'an, China
7 Win 4–3 China Sheng Peng TKO 9 (10), 0:25 22 Apr 2017 China China Muslim International Business & Trade City, Yinchuan, China
6 Win 3–3 China Guo Chao UD 10 14 Jan 2017 China Da Mai Centre, Dalian, China
5 Loss 2–3 China Xian Qian Wei UD 10 21 Oct 2016 China Xi Xia Sheng Dian Theater, Zhenbei Pu, Yinchuan, China
4 Win 2–2 China Xin Ming Liu SD 6 10 Sep 2016 China Comprehensive Gym, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai, China
3 Win 1–2 China Zi Jie Shang MD 6 25 May 2016 China Diamond Court, Beijing, China
2 Loss 0–2 Vietnam Van Thao Tran PTS 6 12 Dec 2015 South Korea Hotel Shilla Casin, Jeju, South Korea
1 Loss 0–1 China Jian Wang UD 8 28 Nov 2015 China Suzhou Sports Center, Suzhou, China

Personal life

Hailing from the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, he does not speak fluent Mandarin and currently lives in Emin County.

References

  1. ↑ "Boxing record for Wulan Tuolehazi". BoxRec.
  2. ↑ "Қытайдағы қазақ боксшысы екі нұсқа бойынша Азия чемпионы атанды". lenta.inform.kz. 9 May 2017. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "裤裆里藏杠铃环的乌兰：我会吓到田中恒成的". Sina (in Chinese). 25 December 2019. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  4. 1 2 "Wulan Tuolehazi realizó entrenamiento público en Japón". Box Al Día (in Spanish). 29 December 2019. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 ""天山雪豹"的咆哮：乌兰闯入WBC蝇量级挑战者行列". kuaibao.qq.com (in Chinese). 5 October 2018. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
  6. ↑ "乌兰：即将迈入冠军候选人行列，谁是"天山雪豹"的下一个猎物？". Sohu (in Chinese). 12 January 2019. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  7. ↑ Stewart, Adrian (1 October 2018). "WBC flyweight bout loss taints Jay-R Raquinel's record". Panay News. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  8. ↑ Bonsubre Jr., Rene (29 September 2018). "Tuolehazi topples Raquinel in Changsha". PhilBoxing. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  9. ↑ "Best of BOXING: Ranking of the best boxing Fights of the Year 2018 by ATBF". AlltheBestFights.com. 8 January 2019. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  10. ↑ "WBC Ratings February 2019" (PDF). maurowbc.com. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  11. ↑ Koizumi, Joe (30 March 2019). "Wulan, Konno win WBA regional title bouts in China". FightNews.com. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  12. ↑ "Best of BOXING: Ranking of the best boxing Fights of the Year 2019 by ATBF". AlltheBestFights.com. 9 January 2019. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  13. ↑ "Can Xu, Canizalez retain WBA titles in China". FightNews.com. 26 May 2019. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  14. ↑ "Boxing Results from China". FightNews.com. 17 October 2019. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  15. ↑ Songalia, Ryan (31 December 2019). "Kosei Tanaka knocks out Wulan Tuolehazi in 3, retains WBO flyweight title". The Ring. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  16. ↑ Rafael, Dan (31 December 2019). "Kazuto Ioka, Kosei Tanaka retain world titles in Tokyo bouts". ESPN. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  17. ↑ "Ilonggo boxer Fajardo knocked down in Thailand". www.panaynews.net. Retrieved 2021-08-04.
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