I should probably just make this into a general Sanda thread.
But here are some new updates about the Sanda scene.
Zhang Kaiyin won both the 2013 and 2014 Sanda world cup, he is probably pound for pound, the best Sanda fighter in China in these years (and certainly one of the top in the world). Sanda fighter tends to be more well known in the 75-80 kg category. The heavy weight Sanda fighters who are 90 kg are never popular in the world scene, namely Bian Qingge (just won 2013 world cup at 90 kg) and Huang Lei (who is THE top fighter when weight is taken into account).
For Sanda fighters in kickboxing and Wu Lingfeng I would rank their striking abilities/accomplishments as follows:
1) Fang Bian (knocked out Simon Marcus, picked apart Kaoklai, fought 40 matches and is undefeated)
2) Zhang Kaiyin (knocked out Lam, defeated JWP, KOed Longern)
3) Aotegen Bateer (Drawed Yod, defeated Kaoklai, ok, and a controversial win over Sudsakorn but hes also the best striker in Chinese MMA right now, although he doesn't fight much)
I did not include Zhou Zhipeng because he has a boxing rather than a Sanda background.
Here is someone new you should look out for; a newbie whose only 22 right now just arrived on the scene in 2012 named Zhang Kun; who shocked everyone by picking apart Zhang Kaiyin in 2012 and again in 2013, then he lost a decision to Aotegen Bateer in the national championships but won first place in a rematch against Bateer in another national competition the same year. He lost in a close decision to Zhang Kaiyin in a pro CFC fight in 2013 (I showed the video in my first post). Yet in 2014, he again defeated Zhang in the 75 KG and became the national champion (and the CFC middle weight pro-Sanda champion). Basically, he defeated Zhang 3 times to demonstrate that he was unquestionably better, defeating Bateer once by a wide margin. He also won the Asian Olympics Sanda championship at 70 KG last year.
Pay attention to him in either Wu lingfeng or Chinese MMA. He has tremendous potentials. His wrestling is better than Zhang and Bateer and his striking is good enough to take these two on as well.
Here is a video of him picking apart Zhang Kaiyin in the national finals. Casually outwrestling the later, and countering his strikes:
http://tieba.baidu.com/p/1635696897 Red: Zhang Kaiyin, Black: Zhang Kun