Snooker star Stephen Hendry in Zou Shiming's corner
Seven-time world snooker champion Stephen Hendry will be in Zou Shiming's corner when the Chinese boxer fights in Macau on Saturday.
Zou Shiming will have an unusual ally in his corner on Saturday night - snooker great Stephen Hendry, who advised him to stay focused and not be distracted by outside forces.
The seven-time world champion is in Macau to support Zou, and insisted: "Shiming has won the Olympic gold twice so he knows what it takes to win.
"He has a very big trainer [Freddie Roach] helping him and also the fans behind him," added the former world champion.
"He has to keep focused on the job and try not to think about outside things. I don't think he will have a problem."
Hendry confesses he doesn't follow boxing as much as snooker, but was invited to watch the Showdown at Sands by Zou's promotions company.
Shiming said he was a big snooker fan and he had seen me before in Beijing. We played a game of pool for fun. He won, but I was giving him two shots!
"Shiming said he was a big snooker fan and he had seen me before in Beijing.