Chinese media report that 24-year-old WBC & WBA champion boxer Zhou Runqi was seriously injured in an alleged racially motivated attack while riding a bus in New South Wales on 14 October 2025. According to the accounts, two white men and two white women began hurling racial abuse at Zhou and his wife before the confrontation turned physical; Zhou was reportedly struck on the back of the head, briefly lost consciousness, and was later diagnosed with a brain hemorrhage and concussion.
Zhou, who holds the WBC Asian Continental and WBA East-Asian Intercontinental titles and is based in Australia, is said to have cancelled an upcoming Oceania title defence while he recovers. The claims have circulated widely on Chinese social media and have been picked up by Chinese-language news aggregators, but as of 20 October 2025 no major Australian outlet has published independent confirmation of the incident, and NSW Police have not released a statement.
