China's Zulpikar Maimaitiali (right) sweats it out with his trainer Julian Howell during a training session in Juhu yesterday. Pic/Pradeep Divar

There was no typical trash talk from Zulpikar Maimaitiali, China's No. 1 professional boxer, as he worked up a sweat at a city hotel yesterday in the build-up to tomorrow's Battleground Asia fight against India's Vijender Singh at the NSCI Dome in Worli.