MACAU: China's Zou Shiming won three world titles in a glittering amateur career, and Saturday aims to complete his transformation to a professional world champion by beating IBF flyweight belt-holder Amnat Ruenroeng in Macau.

Zou also won two Olympic gold medals (2008, 2012) and a bronze (2004), but now faces his toughest challenge in his seventh professional fight at Cotai Arena against a foe he knows all too well from his amateur days.

Zou first encountered International Boxing Federation champion Amnat in 2007 when the Thai, in his first event since being released from prison, pulled off a huge shock to beat Zou, who had already won his first amateur world championship two years earlier.

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