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Zhou Zhipeng won the national military boxing championship I think, and went to fight in Wulingfeng so he is primarily a puncher. Not every Chinese fighter in Wu Linfeng has a sanshou background although most of them trained it at some point, even if their primary style wasn't Sanda. Zhou also did traditional Chinese martial arts before boxing however.
Sanda fighters typically have weak hands while having some of the best kicks (you see similar characteristic with Cung Le too), like MT fighters from Thailand, they don't have a lot of punch combos and just go into the clinch for throws. Most of these Sanda fighters has to refine their hands in preparing kickboxing matches. Wang Weihao is one of those who is very traditional in style. He was able to beat Saenchai because of his kicks, but lost to Kraus because of his weaker hands.
Also, if we include Sanda fighters outside of China, Salikhov Muslim is also one of the best strikers, he beat Fang Bian in kickboxing before, although that was four years ago before Fan Bian started his pro-kickboxing career. Muslim is also fighting M 1 Global right now (WW), and might enter the UFC in the future, no one really pays attention to his progress. Lets see how far he goes. I am willing to bet the top Sanda fighters, especially those with strong wresting background, could hang well with high ranked but more striking based UFC fighters with just a year or two of a good training camp. We'll see how far Salikhov goes.
Yeah,another fighter who i start like to watch when i met him in his fight vs buakaw ins Zhang Chunyu,the dude is also new and very cool