Chapter 644 Come on Bob!

After Link made a bold statement about betting with "Ring" magazine, the domestic media also approached Link about this matter and asked him about his thoughts. It was rumored that he would beat all middleweight boxers in one round. Is it true or not? Do you have confidence?

Link's unified answer to this is that he is confident and it is not nonsense. He will continue to train hard and show his best performance in the next game and fulfill his promise.

After these news were reported by the media, they also caused heated discussions in China. There were criticisms and praises. Most people supported Link's approach.

Fans and boxing fans also began to pay attention to Link's games, wanting to see if he can really KO those powerful foreign boxers in one round in the next game. If he can really do it, it would be great.

The leaders of the State Sports Bureau also found him for this matter and asked about his training. At the same time, they advised him to be more stable and not to jump out too much. He is not only a boxer now, but also a representative figure among Chinese athletes and a business card for the outside world.

If he makes a fool of himself in the game, the impact will be very bad.

Link said that he would work hard in the game to win glory for Chinese athletes instead of making a fool of himself.

In addition, the leaders of CCTV also found him and asked about the boxing match. They seemed to want to buy the broadcasting rights of Link's match, but they were hesitant. After chatting for a long time, Link didn't know what the other party wanted to do.

After dealing with the media, Link focused on boxing training.

In order to achieve better training results, he bought a yard with a good environment near Dayangshan Forest Park in the north and converted it into a boxing training hall. The yard covers an area of ​​more than 500 square meters and has a small building. It cost more than 6 million yuan before and after buying the land and decorating it.

He also spent money to hire several sparring partners, physiotherapists, and nutritionists to assist in training.

Compared with muscle beach training, the environment and conditions here are worse, but it is quiet and will not be disturbed during training.

After practicing for a period of time, after testing, his right fist's maximum explosive power reached 900 kilograms, and his left fist's maximum explosive power reached 720 kilograms, which increased by dozens of kilograms compared with the test in June, which also shows that his recent training effect is good.

In mid-November, under the arrangement of Top Promotion, he flew to Melbourne, Australia, to participate in the organized qualifying match with WBA Oceania Middleweight Champion Robert Allen.

The opponent is a veteran who once competed for the IBF Middleweight World Champion gold belt in Hopkins.

The first match ended in failure, and the second match lost to Hopkins. The opponent is 32 years old, 182 cm tall, with a wingspan of 182, and a professional record of 27 wins and 4 losses in 31 fights.

The opponent has a good punch and is good at attacking. He is a good boxer in the middleweight class.

The match that day was held at the John Cain Stadium in Melbourne, a small indoor stadium that often hosts snooker championships, concerts, boxing and other events, with 12,000 seats.

Robert Allen is a Melbourne native and is well-known locally, and Link's reputation has spread to Australia after the last hype.

The stadium was also filled with spectators that day, including many Chinese faces. They held up posters of Link, including singer posters and boxing posters, to support Link in this way.

There were also some media reporters and TV cameras following the game.

After the game started, the opponent Robert Allen grinned and told him that he would never be knocked down easily by him, and said that he would beat him hard with an iron fist and let him go back to where he came from.

Link raised his fists and looked at his opponent quietly, ignoring his provocation.

After the referee waved to start, Link raised his arms, but before he could make a move, his opponent Robert Allen immediately took two steps back, raised his fists high, and strictly guarded his head.

Robert Allen's coach also shouted from the audience, "Hold on, be careful of his back throw."

This situation obviously studied his game videos and tactics, and wanted to use the method of avoiding fighting to survive the first round.

Link didn't care how the opponent tried to escape. He quickly approached the opponent with a much faster moving speed than the opponent, and hit the opponent with his fists continuously.

The opponent was good at attacking but not good at defending, so he did a terrible job in defense.

At 24 seconds in the first round, Link took advantage of the opponent's head protection and hit the opponent's left rib with a fierce liver-bursting punch accurately. The punch weighed more than 800 kilograms and hit the opponent's ribs firmly.

The opponent Robert Allen was hit and groaned immediately. He bent over and took a step back with his left ribs. Link followed with a left swing punch and hit the opponent's forehead steadily. The opponent fell to the ground very neatly.

There was a cry of surprise from the audience, and Link's fans shouted excitedly.

The referee also rushed over to stop the game. After asking about the opponent's situation, the referee announced that Link won.

The duration of this game was 32 seconds.

Link's professional record is 11 wins and 11 KOs in 11 games.

He also won the title of international boxing champion.

He ranks in the top 10 among WBA middleweight boxers and in the top 50 among global middleweight boxers.

In fact, after becoming an international boxing champion, he is also eligible to challenge the world boxing champions of the four major organizations.

It’s just that the decision-making power of such a match is in the hands of the world boxing champions. In order to keep the gold belt and maximize their interests, many world boxing champions generally do not accept challenges from international boxing champions.

They only compete with challengers who have obtained mandatory competition qualifications.

After finishing the game with Robert Allen, Link returned to the country.

The situation of this game was also broadcast on the news and ESPN and other TV stations, causing a lot of discussion in the boxing community.

Originally, many people heard Link say that he wanted to KO all the middleweight boxers in one round, and thought that he was bragging and that it was absolutely impossible to do it.

And now Link can still knock down the top fifty boxers in the middleweight class within one round, which shows that his strength is really good. Even if there is some bragging, it's not too much.

In addition, Hopkins was 33 years old in 1998, young and strong. At that time, he also needed seven rounds to win against Robert Allen, while Link only needed one round.

Comparing the two, many people began to think that Link really had a chance to defeat Hopkins and steal the four major organizational gold belts from him.

A reporter interviewed Hopkins and asked him if he was panicked.

Hopkins bared his white teeth and said that he had seen through Link's style of play and tactics, and if he met Link, he would definitely defeat him.

"Haha, Link, you played well. Now more and more people are beginning to recognize your strength. As long as you can continue to maintain it, I can guarantee that you will become as outstanding as Pacquiao and Mayweather in the future. Boxer."

Bob Arum called and said.

"Bob, I will try my best. When will the next game be? Well, I'll wait for your arrangements."

In the apartment, Link put down his cell phone. At the same time, Citibank also sent transfer information. There was a remittance on the account of US$360,000, which was the income share of this game.

Compared with the original game in the United States, the revenue share is much smaller and the growth rate is also very slow.

The main reason is that he is a Chinese boxer who has not debuted for a long time. If he wants to gain a foothold in the European and American boxing circles and get tens of millions of shares, he still needs more victories and more publicity and promotion.

"Zilin, what's wrong?"

Link returned to the study and saw Zhang Zilin holding his hair with his hands, making it a little messy, and frowning with a troubled expression.

"I'm working on the questions, and the exam is about to take place. I've been busy training for a while, and I've missed a lot of subjects. I have to catch up now."

Zhang Zilin patted the textbooks and notebooks on the table with his hand.

"Take your time, read a little bit every day, and you should be able to make up for it all by the time of the final exam."

Link laughed.

Zhang Zilin rolled his eyes at him, took his arm and shook it, saying coquettishly: "You are so powerful and getting more and more powerful, but I am still standing still. I am worried about failing even the exam. Do you think I am too stupid?" , kicked me?"

"What are you thinking about? It's hard to find a beautiful, smart, and kind girl like you. How could I be willing to let you go?"

Link smiled softly, sat down and held her in his arms.

"real?"

Zhang Zilin leaned on his shoulder and put his arms around his neck.

"You said that if you want to become Miss World, you must first learn one thing, and that is confidence. Not only in yourself, but also in front of others, you must boldly show your confidence, and confidence will make you more beautiful and better. .

If you always have random thoughts and self-doubt, your appearance and temperament will also be affected, and people will not be able to see your brilliance, do you understand? "

Link pinched the tip of her nose.

Zhang Zilin blinked, smiled and nodded.

Link is a nostalgic person. When he is not training, he likes to stay at home, read books, play the piano, or chat with Zhang Zilin.

Over time, even if he didn't have deep feelings for Zhang Zilin, he had become accustomed to her presence and liked to get along with her. This way of getting along with her was simpler than when he got along with Zhou Xun, Gao Yuanyuan, Wang Fei, and Lin Zhilin. There was no burden.

Also in this kind of relationship, he could also feel that Zhang Zilin was relying more and more on him, like a flower vine tightly wrapping around him.

Link likes to be loved, just like Taylor and Iwaka did in the past.

When getting along with Zhang Zilin, he would also give her some responses to avoid hurting her.

Now, in addition to going to school, Zhang Zilin is also preparing to participate in the Miss World beauty pageant at the suggestion of the company.

If you want to get good results in the beauty pageant, it is not enough to have a tall figure and outstanding appearance. You also need to have certain knowledge, taste and communication skills.

Link will also teach her foreign languages ​​when he is free, and take her to concerts and high-end cocktail parties to expand her knowledge and cultivate her communication skills.

Compared with last year, Zhang Zilin is now not only taller and plumper, but also has made great progress in knowledge and conversation. She is elegant and elegant, and she is gradually becoming better.

Associating with an excellent beauty will undoubtedly provide you with more physical and psychological satisfaction.

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By mid-to-late November, while he was training and waiting for the next game, he also found time to record songs for his second album in Wheatfield Music's recording studio.

The second one has 16 songs, 13 of which are songs that he remembers as being of good quality and widely sung, and more suitable for his own style. There are also three English songs, "All of me", "Dream it possible" and " "Good time".

The inclusion of English songs in the second album was a way to test the waters and see if the European and American music scene could accept the songs of a Chinese singer.

On the other hand, the Chinese music scene is currently in a period of transformation. Singers are influenced by the European and American music scene and like to add English songs and raps to their albums. It seems that doing so can improve the quality of the album, and fans also like this.

In February this year, S.H.E's album "Fantasy Journey", Jolin Tsai's "Castle", June Lin Junjie's "Second Heaven", August Jay Chou's "Qili Xiang", September Wilber Pan's "Wu Ha", October Sun Yanzi's "Stefanie", Angela Chang's "Aurora" at the end of November, etc.

With a similar style, sales are good in the country.

Zhang Yadong knew that he sang well in English, so he suggested that he add these three songs.

He has good singing skills and a strong ability to perform songs, so the song recording process was relatively smooth. The recording took a week and the post-processing only took about ten days.

By the end of November, his second promotional single "When You Get Old" began to land on major radio and television music channels.

Due to the high quality of his first album, the many fans he has accumulated, and his reputation as an Olympic champion and boxing star, this song attracted the attention of the media and fans as soon as it was released.

According to statistics from the IFPI data company, three days before its release, the song was publicly played 600 million times on various domestic platforms. This song is played in almost all streets and alleys in the country, and Link's soulful and magnetic voice can be heard everywhere.

This song has also been well received by domestic professional media and musicians.

Link didn't care about this. The purpose of singing was to make money and expand his fame. The ultimate goal was to attract more people's attention to his boxing match.

In early December, the company was busy promoting his second album, and he brought his boxing team to Panama City in Central America to participate in a match with Nicaraguan boxer Ricardo Mayorga.

Riccardo Mayorga is a famous welterweight boxer. He is 31 years old this year. He debuted in 1993. He has won the WBA-WBC welterweight world championship and the Ring magazine welterweight championship.

He was promoted to middleweight at the beginning of this year and defeated Eric Mitchell and Spinks successively to become the middleweight international boxing champion and ranked 32nd in the middleweight field.

Nicknamed 'Matador'.

The current professional record is 27 wins, 4 losses and 1 draw.

Like Link, the opponent is also challenging the middleweight hegemon Hopkins, so they are arranged to compete together by the boxing organization, and the winner advances to the next round of qualifying.

The competition is held in Panama City, Central America. Panama City is the capital of Panama, the political, economic and cultural center of Panama and the financial center of Central America. The famous Panama Canal is located here.

The economic development is good, and it is also the location of the headquarters of the World Boxing Association WBA.

The game was held at the National Stadium in Panama.

Because Link and Mayorga are well-known, nearly 15,000 spectators came to the game that day, and the prize money reached 2 million US dollars, with the winning side taking 70%.

It is said that Mayorga also has a US$200,000 appearance fee subsidy because the opponent is more famous in Central America.

After the game started, opponent Mayorga took the lead in attacking.

The opponent's fighting style is similar to Pacquiao's, with extremely fast punches, flexible movements, and excellent coordination between fists and footsteps.

Once hit, the opponent's fists will come at you continuously, which is very difficult to deal with.

In terms of overall strength, Mayorga is much better than Robert Allen in the previous game.

But compared with Link, the opponent's boxing skills also have some flaws, such as excessive pursuit of speed, which results in low punch weight and insufficient fist lethality, which is worse than Mario's.

Link was hit by the opponent three or four times in a row and felt almost no pain.

He raised his arms in defense to prevent the opponent from deliberately showing weakness, and mixed his jabs with heavy punches to catch himself off guard.

After blocking several rounds of attacks from his opponent, he took advantage of the lull in the opponent's attacks and took the initiative to punch out. However, his opponent Mayorga had good reflexes. When he punched, the opponent quickly retreated back and raised his arms to defend and counterattack.

Link didn't want to give the opponent a chance to delay the game. After disrupting the opponent's offensive rhythm, he quickly launched a counterattack.

Use the other person's way to repay the other person's body.

He also used super-fast jabs to attack the opponent's defense with both arms, left jab + right jab + left straight punch + right straight punch.

The speed is fast and fierce, and the attack point is very precise.

Using three sets of combination punches in a row, he broke through the opponent's defense with a fierce straight punch. The fist firmly hit the bridge of the opponent's nose, causing the opponent to fall back. The sweat in his hair was violently thrown out, and his back hit the fence. on the rope.

Link followed closely and continued to attack fiercely.

When the opponent was about to use the hugging tactic, he hit the opponent's left rib with three consecutive heart-breaking punches, causing the opponent to squat on the ground holding his left rib.

The referee immediately rushed over to stop him and squatted on the ground to count down to dozens.

Mayorga failed to get up within the time limit.

The referee raised Link's arm, declaring him the winner.

Link currently has a professional record of 12 wins and 12 fights, ranking 32nd in the middleweight category.

The game also earned him nearly a million dollars in prize money.

"Haha, Link, you fought well. I am now more and more convinced that you can defeat Hopkins and become the new overlord of the middleweight class."

After the game, Bob Arum walked into the dugout, patted him on the shoulder and smiled.

"I'm not interested in domination. What I want is to make more dollars, so the company should find a way to attract more viewers and sponsors to my games, so that we can all make money, right? "

Link said as he removed the palm bandage on his hand.

"More US dollars? Oh, Link, you've only been in the industry for less than three months, and you've already earned more than $1 million per game, which is much faster than when Tyson, De La Hoya, and Mayweather made money. Are you still not satisfied with this number?"

Bob Arum looked at him strangely.

Link shrugged his shoulders, "How can they compare with me? I'm a gold medalist in three Olympic sports and I'm already famous. After I entered the boxing world, I KOed my opponent in the first round in every game. Can they do it?

Bob, when we signed the contract, we said that our goal was the same, which was to make money. Now I try my best to do my best in every game, just to make a name for myself and create more news. Have you done your best in publicity and promotion?

Bob, you are the most powerful promoter in the boxing industry. I believe you can do better, right?"

Link patted Bob's arm to encourage him.