Across America, Starting with the Boxing Champion Chapter 615

Chapter 615 Reaching the Finals

National Stadium, Bangkok.

After Link stepped down, he was praised and congratulated by the boxing team's coaches and teammates, as well as by a group of self-proclaimed boxing agents and boxing scouts.

These boxing scouts took the initiative to find him and asked him if he had signed with a management company, what his career plans were, and whether he wanted to go to the United States to box professionally and earn millions or tens of millions per game like Pacquiao, De La Hoya, and Tyson. US dollars?

In response to these people's inquiries, Link gave a negative answer.

His purpose of proactively exposing his strength in this game is indeed to attract the attention of the boxing company and improve his reputation in the boxing circle.

But that's all. He has no plans to sign a contract or play professional games for the time being.

The reason is that he has just become famous and has not even won the World Boxing Championship. At this time, the signing agency can only get a cheap contract.

If after winning a championship or Olympic championship, you have the title of Olympic champion, become more famous in the boxing world, and receive more attention, then you can consider signing a contract at that time, and you will have the opportunity to raise conditions and wait for a price.

Hearing that he had no plans to sign a contract for the time being, the agents and boxing scouts were not discouraged. They left their business cards and returned to the sidelines to continue watching the game.

After the quarter-finals of the 69 kg category, competitions in other weight categories continued. In the fourth match, the quarter-finals of the 48 kg category, Zou Shiming faced Slovak boxer Rudel.

In this game, Zou Shiming continued to attack his opponents with his pirate boxing tactics.

Pirate boxing is a variant of guerrilla tactics and is a tactic of "defeating the strong with the weak".

Mainly used to deal with the "regular army", the fighting method is relatively flexible, one punch will retreat in the ring, one punch will change the place, avoid the enemy's edge, constantly consume the enemy's physical strength and patience, and finally find an opportunity to defeat the opponent.

This style of play is easier to use in amateur competitions, because amateur competitions only focus on victory and don't care about the viewing effect.

Not very useful in professional boxing matches.

On the one hand, there are 12 rounds in a professional game, and playing guerrilla for 12 consecutive rounds is very tiring.

On the other hand, this evasive style of play has a poor viewing effect, game tickets cannot be sold, and PPV income will not be too high.

In the 48kg quarter-finals, Zou Shiming defeated his opponent Rudel with a score of 26-19 and successfully advanced to the semi-finals.

After a short break at noon, Link returned to the court in the afternoon to participate in the 69kg semi-finals.

There were four boxers left in the semi-finals, fighting each other in pairs. Link drew Thai local boxer Supok.

Subok is 28 years old, 180 cm tall, with a wingspan of 182 cm and a weight of 68.3 kg. He is a former Muay Thai boxer. At the age of 24, he won the 64 kg championship in the All-Thailand Boxing Competition. He is known as the toughest man in Thailand. ', well-known in the Muay Thai world.

During the competition, there were many Subok boxing fans in the audience, shouting "Come on" in Thai.

Subek is also a part-time boxer, with a record of 10 wins and 3 losses in 13 amateur matches.

Link has watched the opponent's quarter-finals. This person has good physical strength, good resistance to fighting, fierce fighting style, and tenacious willpower.

But this man was originally a Muay Thai athlete. The fighting style of Muay Thai is very different from boxing. Muay Thai allows the use of double fists, legs, elbows, and knees to attack the opponent. It is also known as the "eight-arm boxing technique."

Muay Thai athletes will strengthen the strength of their elbows and knees during training to maximize the damage to their enemies.

Boxing does not allow the use of elbows and knees.

So the two sports are very different in attack methods, and the muscle groups used when exerting force are also very different.

This difference makes it easy for opponents to make small moves during the game. Because it is the opponent's home court, they are not stopped by the referee.

Also, Subok's fists are not strong and his foundation in combination punches is very poor. He also likes to dodge during competitions and run away after just one punch.

There are safe ways to deal with this kind of boxer, and there are also radical ways.

The sound tactic is to fight steadily, defend tightly, wear down the opponent's strength little by little, and then look for opportunities to defeat the opponent.

This method is stable, but it is not efficient and seems to be procrastinating.

And if Link wants to make a name for himself through the platform of the World Championships, he must show more strength in the game and defeat his opponents cleanly.

After the game started, his opponent Subok took the initiative to attack him, punching him on the head, and punching him alternately. When Link raised his hands to defend, his opponent took advantage of it and hit him with his elbow several times.

　　The referee had nothing to say about this.

Link did not protest. After nimbly dodging several attacks from his opponent, he found the opportunity to get close to his opponent and punched him in the abdomen.

Subok can indeed be called the toughest man in Thailand. Although his body does not have many muscles, it is very strong, like a piece of iron.

Link's fist only made the opponent take half a step back, and did not allow the opponent to focus his defense on the chest and abdomen.

The opponent attacked with a backhand, and Link sidestepped to avoid it. He swung his fist faster and hit the opponent's left rib again.

The powerful punch made the opponent groan and take a step back involuntarily.

Link caught up with him and punched his opponent in the abdomen again. The opponent lowered his arms to defend himself, blocking Link's fist. The first punch of the combination punch was empty, and Link followed up with the second punch with a left hook from bottom to top. , and lifted the opponent's chin unexpectedly.

The opponent's mouth made a banging sound, his head quickly tilted back, the sweat from his hair was thrown out, and he quickly stepped backwards and hit the rope.

Link strode forward and quickly approached his opponent. He punched alternately with both fists, hitting the opponent's arms, abdomen, chin, and front of the face hard. He punched more than ten times in three seconds. First, he broke down the opponent's defense. The last few punches landed firmly on the opponent's head.

One of the punches hit the bridge of the opponent's nose, causing bleeding from the opponent's nostrils.

The opponent held his head with his arms and squatted on the ground after being beaten.

“Stop!”

The referee came to stop Link from continuing to attack. Link took a step back and shook off the blood and sweat splashed on his gloves.

“Link is so handsome.”

“This is boxing, real boxing.”

In the audience, Zou Shiming and several teammates on the boxing team shouted excitedly.

This is an amateur boxing match. Both parties wear sponge hoods. Under the double protection of the gloves and hoods, it is generally not easy to injure the opponent.

As for Link, he knocked someone unconscious in the last game, and gave his opponent a nosebleed in the first round of this game.

　　Too fierce.

Zou Shiming also wanted to box like Link, but unfortunately his strength did not allow it.

“Old Zhao, you taught Link's style of play? I remember that you preferred the tactic of boiling frogs in warm water, wearing down your opponent little by little. Why has your style suddenly changed so much now?”

Coach Zhang Chuanliang asked.

“Uh, haha, I told Link before that you don't need to worry about tactics when playing a game. As long as you can win the game, you can use any tactics.”

Coach Zhao Liwei laughed dryly.

In the boxing ring, the coach asked Subok if he wanted to continue the game.

Subok means to continue.

The Thai audience in the audience also shouted cheers.

Link and his opponent have not yet started fighting, and the first round of the game is over.

After a minute's rest, Link and his opponent stood on the ring again. The bridge of his opponent's nose had been treated and the blood was blocked. Except for some redness and swelling, the rest didn't look serious.

After the start of the second round, Link chose to continue attacking, but his opponent covered his face with both fists and kept dodging with very flexible movements.

It's a pity that no matter how nimbly he dodges, he is still not as nimble as Link's steps, nor as fast as Link's punch.

Link used his fists to force his opponent to the rope. With the help of rope tactics, he hit up and down, down and up. He broke through Subok's defense with only eight punches, and hit his opponent's face and chin again with his fist.

Before he could continue the attack, coach Subok threw up the white towel and chose to admit defeat.

The game has just entered the second round, and Link has already shown his ability to crush Subok, so there is no point in continuing the fight.

Subek also chose to admit defeat after getting up.

Link defeated his opponent again and successfully advanced to the finals to compete for the gold medal with British boxer Martin Murray.

This is also the first time that a Chinese male boxer has reached the finals in the World Boxing Championships. In terms of women's boxing, Chinese female boxer Zhang Maomao won a women's 57KG championship at the 2001 World Championships.

After Link came off the field, he was congratulated again by the coaching staff and teammates. Someone from the boxing promotion company also came to say hello and was willing to increase the offer to sign him.

It's just that the highest offer from these people was only a signing bonus of 200,000 US dollars, which did not attract his interest at all.

“Sean, don't you go talk to Link?”

In the audience, Dmitry Salita, a promoter of Arena Promotions Company, asked.

Promoter Sean Gibbons looks at Link in the crowd.

"Wait a minute! If Link was a smart man, he wouldn't just join a small company."

“Indeed, with his strength and image, joining a large promotion company, Pacquiao will be an Asian destroyer in the future.”

Dmitry Salita said.

“He's probably better than Pacquiao.”

Sean Gibbons said.

“Oh? Do you think he is comparable to Pacquiao?”

Dmitry Salita asked in surprise.

Philippine star Pacquiao entered professional boxing in 1995. His current professional record is 40 fights, 2 losses and 1 draw. He is the current IBF-WBO bantamweight world champion and one of the most famous boxing stars in the current lightweight field.

“Yes, the strength, speed, and tactics he displayed in the boxing ring are also at the top level in professional boxing. Don't forget that he is only 18 years old and there is still huge room for improvement.”

Sean Gibbons said.

　　“It's really great.”

Salita looked at Link with more intense eyes. Before the finals started, he immediately called and reported to Barry Hearn, the boss of the Arena Promotion Company, saying that he saw a very good boxer at the World Championships. , very worthy of investment.

Barry Hearn said that he has the final say on contracts of less than $500,000 and believes in his vision.

After Salita finished the call, he heard that his old friend Sean Gibbons was also on the phone to report to Top Promotions boss Bob Arum. He smiled casually and was not worried about competing with Top Promotions. In boxing promotion In terms of field, although Top Promotions is very strong, the competition room is not bad either.

(End of this chapter)

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