Conquer America, Start with a Boxing Champion

Bang bang bang!

With the arrival of October, the WBA-WBC light heavyweight title PK match is about to begin.

At present, the boxing match promotion team has gone to Seoul to carry out pre-match promotion work. After a few days of rest, Link also returned to Muscle Beach Club to train.

In the private training ground, Link was wearing a sports T-shirt and his fists were wrapped in white hand bandages as he kept hitting the sandbags. His strong muscles sometimes relaxed and contracted under the T-shirt.

As he moved, his muscle tissue gradually expanded, and the oil and sweat discharged from his body soaked the shirt.

As he trained, Morales wandered around his training area and seemed to have something to say.

It's dangling around and looks a bit unsightly.

"Mario, what's wrong with you?"

Link stopped and picked up a towel to wipe the sweat off his body.

"Link, you know I didn't come to the training ground some time ago. Guess where I went?"

Morales bared his white teeth, winked and smiled.

"Going to pick up girls?"

"Of course not. I have a stable relationship with Debbie. How could I hook up with other women? I'm not that kind of scumbag. Well, I went to Hopkins' training ground. De La Hoya asked me to go and told him I can’t turn it down, guess what Hoya asked me to do?”

"Let you train with Hopkins?"

"That's right, that's it. You want me to imitate your fighting style, your punching movements, commonly used combination punches, steps, up and down tactics, etc., I have to imitate them.

I said it can't be done. No one can imitate your speed and punching weight. They asked me to show it as much as possible.

De La Hoya also found three boxers with a similar style to you to serve as sparring partners for Hopkins. We trained with Hopkins for half a month, watching your game videos while training, as if we were doing Research, very, very carefully.

Originally, De La Hoya didn't let me tell you. After thinking about it, it's better to tell you. I feel that De La Hoya is serious this time. He really wants Hopkins to beat you. You'd better be careful. "

Morales said.

Link nodded. Studying the opponent's fighting style and weaknesses before the game is also one of the basic skills of a boxer.

Starting from the amateur competition, he would study the opponent's information with the coaching staff before each game to find the fastest way to defeat the opponent. This is also one of the functions of the coaching staff.

Before his last match with Clinton Woods, he studied his opponent's playing style and weaknesses, and he was also studying Hopkins during this time.

Now I heard that Hopkins was also studying him and found Morales and others for special training. He was not surprised and didn't think there was any problem.

There were rumors before that Hopkins went to a Cuban boxing training camp to train in order to deal with him.

Link only felt that both De La Hoya and Hopkins were too nervous, and this mentality was wrong.

At the same time, from the perspective of publicity and promotion, this kind of rumor is also adding momentum to Hopkins, trying to achieve a certain balance with him in terms of "strength", and it can also arouse the curiosity of boxing fans: What is the purpose of Hopkins doing this? Useless? Who wins and who loses in the competition between the two?

With curiosity, you will gain attention and earn more PPV income.

In fact, Link doesn't mind more rumors in the media, including the rumored 'iron-blooded play', exchanging injuries for injuries, using a beauty trap against him, etc.

In fact, it is also one of the ways to promote boxing matches. It is a ‘gimmick’ released by promotion companies and gambling companies to create reportable materials for the media, increase the topicality of boxing matches, and also provide boxing fans with some fresh topics to talk about.

In short, hype.

Link didn't know if De La Hoya was creating a topic by asking Morales to be Hopkins' sparring partner, or if he really wanted to defeat him in this way.

No matter how he got there, he didn't care. As long as he was strong enough, he didn't have to worry about other people's machinations.

"Mario, what are you doing here without training?"

The two were chatting when Hoya walked in with a frown and glared at Morales.

"I told Link about training with Hopkins. I think it is useless for you to do that. Hopkins is too old. Even if he is twenty years younger, he will not be Link's opponent. If I If you are the one, you will let Hopkins give up the gold belt and let Link dominate the light heavyweight. Anyway, he will be promoted to cruiserweight and heavyweight in two years, and he will not hold on to several gold belts. You guys are like this There’s no point in holding on.”

Morales said.

"Stop talking nonsense, get out, and don't disturb Link's training here."

Hoya pointed to the door with a dark face.

Morales shrugged and walked away.

De La Hoya shook his head and said to Link: "What Mario said makes sense. You are so strong, Bernard is no match at all. I also persuaded Bernard to give up the gold belt, but he was unwilling and insisted on following You are overestimating your ability in this fight, Link. I would like to congratulate you in advance on winning the match and becoming the new overlord of the light heavyweight division.”

Link glanced at him, and if Hopkins was not a boxer under Golden Boy Promotions, he might believe De La Hoya's words.

Now Golden Boy Promotions has also invested a lot of promotional funds in this game.

For a boxer, the game is a competition.

For both agencies, it is a capital bet. If Hopkins can win, Golden Boy Promotions will not only receive 70% of the income from this game, but its influence in the boxing world will also rise to a higher level.

After retiring from boxing, De La Hoya gradually became a businessman and paid more attention to profits.

Naturally, you can't believe everything he said.

"Hoya, has the prize money for the match been confirmed? I haven't heard from Franco yet?"

Link didn't want to talk nonsense, so he asked about the business instead.

"Yes, the prize money is 80 million US dollars. You and Bernard will split it 70% and the winner will get 70%. Of course, you are a world-class star, and you can also get some regional PPV revenue, ticket revenue, and peripheral revenue. Link, if you win this match, the prize money is likely to exceed 100 million US dollars."

When talking about the prize money at first, Hoya could still remain calm, but later he calculated and found that if Link won the match successfully, he would not only become the light heavyweight champion of the two major organizations, but also earn more than 100 million US dollars.

It's too exaggerated.

Earning 100 million US dollars for a match is more than what he earned at the peak of his career, and Link is only 22 years old.

Hoya bit his back teeth and was jealous.

"100 million US dollars? Not bad."

Link nodded.

One hundred million dollars sounds like a lot, but it is far less than the prize money of the century battle between Mayweather and Pacquiao. His goal is to have the opportunity to play a game with a total profit of more than one billion dollars in the future, creating a new record that future generations cannot reach.

"Just good?"

De La Hoya frowned, very dissatisfied with his bland tone.

"Yes, considering the factor of inflation, the current one hundred million dollars is equivalent to the level of thirty or forty million in the 1990s. This is a decline. I hope the prize money for the next game can reach two hundred million."

"Two hundred million?"

De La Hoya does not think Link can do it. The highest prize money record at this stage was created by Link in Las Vegas last year. He won 72 million in a single game, which shocked the boxing world.

Link is expected to get one hundred million in this game. This is a new historical record and a record that is difficult to replicate. To break this record, the prize money for a single game is two hundred million dollars, unless the inflation rate quadruples on the current basis.

However, considering that Link has been setting new records since his debut.

It is easy to be slapped in the face if you refute it now.

De La Hoya laughed, "Come on Link, maybe you are creating a miracle."

"I will."

Link nodded, stood in front of the sandbag again, and continued to practice with his fists.

De La Hoya saw his expression and felt helpless. He didn't understand what motivated Link to work so hard every day.

In the boxing world, many boxers will inevitably become lazy after becoming famous and making money, relax their training, and indulge in extravagance, including Tyson, Roy Jones Jr., Mayweather, etc., including himself.

But Link is now worth billions, the first person in the boxing strength list, the first in the popularity list, and the first in the income list. He is more successful than anyone else.

Even so, Link can still insist on training without slacking off.

This kind of perseverance and self-control is too abnormal.

'If I had this kind of perseverance back then'

De La Hoya sighed, left the training ground sadly, and let Link train alone.