Conquer America, Start with a Boxing Champion

After the match, Link stayed in Tokyo for four days, did some promotional work for the boxing match, took three commercials, and then led the team back to the United States.

The PPV of this boxing match sold 3.64 million copies worldwide, and the online live broadcast sales reached 52 million US dollars.

There were also nearly 180 million US dollars in peripheral income from tickets, hotels, advertising sponsorship, etc., setting a record for the peripheral income of boxing matches in the past 20 years, which was higher than the peripheral income of Tyson VS Douglas in 1990.

Link's income for this match was 75 million US dollars, plus several new advertising endorsements, the total income for this trip to Tokyo was about 120 million US dollars.

Link was once again called a "money printing machine", "gold swallowing beast", and "wealth god" by the media, and he is also the highest-paid athlete in the current boxing and sports world.

In March and April, various income rankings of Forbes magazine were announced one after another, and Link ranked at the top of many lists.

The first is the "2011 Sports Athlete Income Ranking" recently announced by Forbes.

Link won the annual income championship with an income of 620 million US dollars (including advertising income).

In second place is his peer Floyd Mayweather, with an annual total income of 85 million US dollars.

In September last year, Mayweather defeated boxing champion Victor Ortiz and won the WBC welterweight title, earning 40 million US dollars including a 25 million US dollar appearance fee, and the rest was advertising income.

In third place is the Philippine boxing champion Pacquiao, who earned 62 million US dollars last year.

Last year, Pacquiao had two boxing matches, against Shane Morris and Juan Marquez, and the income from both matches was more than 20 million.

In fourth place is golf superstar Tiger Woods, who earned 59.4 million US dollars last year, nearly half of his income in 10 years. It is believed that he was affected by negative news and his commercial value was greatly reduced.

Fifth place is NBA superstar James, 53 million US dollars.

Sixth place is tennis player Federer, 52.7 million US dollars

Seventh place is Kobe Bryant, 52.3 million US dollars.

The rest of the income is below 50 million.

According to Forbes, the total income of the athletes ranked 2nd to 16th on the list is 625 million, which is exactly the same as Link's annual income. That is to say, Link's income last year is equal to the income of 15 sports superstars.

This data is very exaggerated.

However, Forbes also explained that the reason why Link's income is so high is that 48% comes from the prize money of five boxing matches, and 52% comes from commercial and advertising income, including Nike, CK, Mercedes-Benz, Dior, Pacific Insurance, etc., which is the bulk.

The second list is the income ranking of singers in the music industry.

Link won the first place in the singer ranking with 180 million US dollars.

Last year, his new album "Love is Gone" sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, and the first three albums also sold millions of copies. The royalties were more than 100 million, plus the concert tickets at the beginning of last year, a total of 180 million.

The second place is Paul McCartney, a former member of the Beatles, with an annual income of 67 million US dollars.

The third place is Taylor Swift, with an annual income of 48 million US dollars. The income mainly comes from the royalties of the third album "Last Kiss" and children's albums, as well as concert tickets.

The fourth place is Jay-Z, with an income of 37 million US dollars. In addition to records, there are also commercial investments.

The fifth place is Rihanna with 29 million US dollars, the sixth place is the band Antebellum with 20 million US dollars, the seventh place is Adele with 18 million US dollars, and the eighth place is Kanye West with 17 million US dollars.

Link Music's singers Justin Bieber, Bruno Mars, Lana Del Rey, and Wiz Khalifa ranked 12th, 13th, 16th, and 23rd with 12 million, 11 million, 8.5 million, and 6 million US dollars respectively.

The performance is very eye-catching.

The third list is "Hollywood's highest-paid male stars in 2011", and Link ranked third with 45 million US dollars.

The champion is Leonardo DiCaprio, who earned $77 million last year, and Johnny Depp is second with $50 million.

In the list of highest-paid actresses last year, Kristen Stewart ranked first with $34.5 million, becoming the youngest highest-paid actress in the Forbes list in the past 16 years.

Emma Stone ranked 8th with $11.5 million, and was hailed as the "new generation of Hollywood sweetheart".

Jennifer Lawrence was not yet famous last year, and her salary was not high when she took on "Silver Linings Playbook" and "The Hunger Games". She ranked 28th with $4.5 million.

In addition to the above three, Link also entered the "Celebrity Charity List", "Most Box Office Appeal List", "Most Cost-effective Male Actor List", "Top Ten Internet Hot Events in 2011" and other classified lists.

On the main list, 'Forbes Global 100 Rich List 2012', Link ranked 232nd with a total net worth of 4.5 billion. His main assets include diversified investments, entertainment, sports, etc.

This year, the world's richest man is Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, with a net worth of 69 billion US dollars, Bill Gates ranked second with 61 billion, and Buffett ranked third with 44 billion.

Larry Ellison ranked sixth with 36 billion US dollars.

Old father-in-law ranked 401st with 2.9 billion US dollars.

Murdoch ranked 192nd with 5.2 billion US dollars.

The threshold of the Forbes Global Billionaires List is $1 billion. This year, there are 1,226 people on the list, including 420 Americans. Link is also ranked 107th on the US 400 Rich List and second on the list of rich people under 30. The first is Zuckerberg, who is only 27 years old and worth $17.5 billion.

In March, there was another good news. After a six-month investigation by the CIA, the main members of the hacker organization Swagsec were arrested, and five people involved in the case were sentenced to three months to five years in prison.

In addition, according to the confession of the people involved in the case, they did not steal the audio source of Link's new album for no reason, but received a bounty task on the dark web. Someone offered a reward of 10,000 bitcoins and hired a hacker organization to commit the crime.

It's just that the person who issued the bounty acted in a more secretive manner. The CIA did not find any useful clues based on the confessions of Swagsec members.

This matter can only be left unresolved.

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"Could it be done by several competitors?"

In the villa halfway up the mountain, Evaka speculated while flipping through the newspaper.

"It's all possible."

Link nodded. Maybe someone was inspired by the "Beyoncé album audio leak incident" and used this trick to deal with him and hit his album sales.

It's just that the CIA's technicians investigated and couldn't track down the person who issued the bounty task. He had no choice but to guess now.

Based on the "competitors", there are many people with motives, such as Jay-Z, P. Diddy, Kunals, Kanye West, etc., as well as singers who released albums at the same time, and even the five major record companies are highly suspected.

Link is the backbone of Link Music. The sales of his new album directly affect the market value and influence of Link Music. Using this method to hit his album sales is also an effective means of competition.

In addition, Link himself is also suspected.

The influence of the hacking incident last year was relatively large. His new album was leaked and reported by the global media. The hacker organization also praised the album songs on Britney Spears' Twitter. This is also a disguised publicity and promotion, and it is even better than his own publicity on Twitter.

So this matter cannot be accurately speculated without evidence.

In addition, due to the rampant global hacker groups last year, which frequently created popular online events and endangered public safety, countries have strengthened media control and cracked down on illegal hacker groups since the end of last year. Several hacker groups have been cracked down by the authorities.

This has also made the hacker groups more restrained, and they have not made trouble since this year.

In this case, Link does not need to worry too much about similar incidents.

"Our Link music is too good and is watched by many people. Be careful when releasing albums in the future, and don't worry too much about other things."

Link said, holding Evaka's round waist.

Evaka nodded and brushed the golden hair hanging by her ears. "I heard that Taylor will release a new album next week. She will be very busy next time and has no time to take care of Alexander and Cynthia. How about we take the two little guys over? We are not busy in the future."

".Are you serious? It's not easy to take care of children."

"Of course I'm serious. Can I still joke with you about this kind of thing?"

Evaka rolled her eyes at him.

Link smiled gently. He wanted to do this, but he was worried that Evaka would have other ideas and affect the pregnancy, so he didn't know how to say it. Now that Evaka took the initiative, he didn't have to worry too much.

He picked up the phone and called Taylor, saying that he wanted to take the two children to the villa halfway up the mountain to take care of them, and asked Taylor what he thought?

Taylor refused, saying that he didn't know how to take care of the children, and she would be worried when he took care of the children at work.

Link was helpless. He was the biological father of the children, so how could he harm them?

"Or I'll talk to Taylor."

Evaka couldn't help laughing when she saw his helpless look.

Link told Taylor that Eva wanted to talk to her, so she handed the phone to Evaka.

Evaka took the phone and chatted with Taylor for a while, asking about the release of Taylor's album, saying that there was a dedicated baby room in the villa, and there were two professional medical staff who would take good care of the children. She also said that Link was too idle recently and wanted to find something for him to do.

Taylor agreed and asked him to pick up the children tomorrow.

Link felt helpless after hearing this. After falling in love, in the end he was not as good as Ivaca, his love rival. He felt that there was something wrong with Taylor's thinking.

For this reason, when he went to pick up the child from Taylor's big villa the next day, he dragged Taylor and had a hard time in the bedroom to show her some awesomeness.

Afterwards, Taylor almost cut him off with a fruit knife, but even though he didn't cut him off, he punched him several times.

After finishing, Link took Alexander, Cynthia, the children's nanny Rachel, and two servants back to the mountainside villa.

Alexander and Cynthia are over a year old. They can speak some simple sentences and stumble around. They are both pink and more delicate than porcelain dolls and look particularly cute.

With the little ones around, Link trains in the villa gym every day. After training, he plays with Alexander and Cynthia, teaching them to walk, talk, swim, draw, and play the piano.

He also specially ordered two pairs of small boxing gloves to teach the two little guys how to box.

But before he started teaching, he was sternly stopped by Taylor who came to watch the children. Taylor warned him that if he dared to teach the two kids boxing, he would take them away immediately.

Link had no choice but to give up and wait until the children were older before teaching them.

"He is such a jerk. Why is the child learning boxing at the age of one? Doesn't boxing hurt?"

On the lawn of the villa halfway up the mountain, Taylor complained while watching Link playing with the two children.

Ivaka stroked her belly and smiled gently, "Link is also a big boy."

Taylor wrinkled his nose and said disdainfully, "I hope the children will not be like him when they grow up. He will make people angry."

Ivaka smiled slightly and pulled Taylor to ask about pregnancy and fitness.